An example of an invention of tradition is the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster ( location of the British Parliament ) in the Gothic style.

Once the first permanent shrines were built, Shinto revealed a strong tendency to resist architectural change, a tendency which manifested itself in the so-called, the tradition of rebuilding shrines faithfully at regular intervals adhering strictly to their original design.

Loyalist Samuel Seabury, for example, abandoned politics but became the first Episcopalian bishop in the United States, rebuilding a church that appealed to families that still admired hierarchy, tradition, and historic liturgy, but had given up their allegiance to the king.

Tirumala is one of the 108 sacred shrines of the Sri Vaishanava tradition.

Many have a long tradition and are still made today, for household shrines, for formal gift-giving, or for festival celebrations such as Hinamatsuri, the doll festival, or Kodomo no Hi, Children's Day.

An Awo is a spiritual counsellor to clients and those whom he or she may have assisted in receiving tutelary Orisa shrines and / or initiation into the spiritual tradition of the Orisa.

The Gates alludes to the tradition of Japanese torii gates, traditionally constructed at the entrance to Shinto shrines.

The Bahá ' í shrines " are the first sites connected with a relatively new religious tradition to be recognized by the World Heritage List.

One local tradition is the creation of “ cruces de animas ” ( crosses of encouragement ) which can be seen on family altars or in family shrines.

From the Shinto tradition comes the use of kami shrines to honor natural forces in specific locales.

Ancient tradition accounted for four temples that successively occupied the site before the 548 / 7 BC fire, following which the Alcmaeonids built a fifth.

According to oral tradition, they fought against the Abyssinians and uprooted Christian communities in Galgala, a town that used to have churches and temples.

When designing the exterior, Pei borrowed from the tradition of Japanese temples, particularly those found in nearby Kyoto.

Particularly strong in this tradition were figurative sculpture in terracotta ( particularly life-size on sarcophagi or temples ) and cast bronze, wall-painting and metalworking ( especially engraved bronze mirrors ).

As popular tourist destinations in Karnataka, Hoysala temples offer an opportunity for pilgrims and students of architecture to examine medieval Hindu architecture in the Karnata Dravida tradition.

Hoysala temples were not limited to any specific organised tradition of Hinduism and encouraged pilgrims of different Hindu devotional movements.

The tradition of circular temples dedicated to the Feathered Serpent deity was an ancient one in the Mesoamerican cultural region.

The story ushered in the tradition of the next thousand years of massive-scale works in the rich diction of regal courts and Brahminical temples.

By this time, a separate gardening tradition had arisen in China, which was transmitted to Japan, where it developed into aristocratic miniature landscapes centered on ponds and separately into the severe Zen gardens of temples.

Sephardic and Mizrachi Jewish temples are generally considered " orthodox " by non-sephardic Jews and are primarily run according to the orthodox tradition, even though many of the congregants may not keep a level of observance on par with traditional orthodox belief.

The open air temples of Akhenaten to the Aten incorporated the Heliopolitan tradition of employing sun rays in architecture, as well as realistic wall reliefs or friezes.

Rajashree Shirke, a disciple of Madhurita Sarang ( who in turn is a disciple of Birju Maharaj ), is playing a pioneer role in reviving the age-old of tradition of story telling in temples by Kathakars.

Sakthan Thampuran, so known for his firm and decisive administration, decided to break tradition and create a venue for the temples belonging to his region to celebrate their pooram festival.

Adhering to the medieval Peruvanam tradition, the festival is confined to the temples of Devi ( goddess ) and Sastha ( divine combination of Shiva and Vishnu ).

Ancient temples, churches and palaces in Kerala, South India, display an abounding tradition of mural paintings mostly dating back between the 9th to 12th centuries CE when this form of art enjoyed Royal patronage.

This applies, for example, to the Graeco-Parthian and Bactrian temples, or to the Ptolemaic examples, which follow Egyptian tradition.

New temples now belonged to the tradition of Roman architecture, which, in spite of the Greek influence on it, aimed for different goals and followed different aesthetic principles.

Taoist, Confucianism, and Buddhist figures together with ancestral worship are combined into a versatile mix in Chinese tradition temples.

He is also said to have built many Buddhist temples, including the Jokhang in Lhasa, the city in which he is credited in one tradition with founding and establishing as his capital, and Changzhug in Nêdong.

Shenist temples are usually small, very colourful ( by contrast with Taoist temples which by tradition should be black and white in color, and Buddhist temples which are characterised by a prevalence of yellow and red tonalities ), and decorated with traditional figures on their roofs ( dragons and deities ), although some evolve into significant structures.

Among them were Anglesey ( Môn ), located on the Northern Welsh Coast, which was the sacred island of the druids of Britain ; the Scilly islands, where archaeological remains of proto-historical temples have been found ; and some of the Hebrides Islands, which were, in the Gaelic tradition, home of ghosts and demons: on one of them, Skye, the Irish hero Cúchulainn was educated by the war goddess Scathach.

Somali architecture is a rich and diverse tradition of engineering and designing involving multiple different construction types, such as stone cities, castles, citadels, fortresses, mosques, temples, aqueducts, lighthouses, towers and tombs.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

Has the agrarian tradition become such an addiction that the switch to urbanism is somehow dreaded or unwanted??

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.

Thus, it is no mystical intuition, but an analyzable conception to say that man and his tradition can `` fall out of existence ''.

Despite the hopelessness of the response, it is explicable in terms of the crisis of tradition itself.

But this truth is distorted by its extreme application: the assumption of the separate existence of tradition.

Reaction is rooted in a perception of tradition as a whole.

The reactionary is confused about the existential status of a decaying tradition, but he does perceive the unity tradition had when it was healthy.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

Faust rescuing Helen from Menelaus' vengeance is the genius of renaissance Europe restoring to life the classic tradition.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

But it is tradition rather than the record which balks at the expunging of the Tammany name.

Civil Defense has far to go and many problems to solve, but is it not in the best spirit of our pioneer tradition to be not only willing, but prepared to care for our own families and help our neighbors in any disaster -- storm, flood, accident or even war??

There is an oral tradition among the members of the population in regard to the origin and subsequent separate status of the group in the larger society.

Confused and divided though this tradition may be, it is an important part of the social and cultural heritage of the group, and acts as a means of socialization, particularly for members of the rural community.

Though it is not easy to apply the evidence of the Iliad to any specific era, this marvelous product of the epic tradition had certainly taken definitive shape by 750.

most of the rest is medieval or humanist or part of an old tradition of social criticism.

Since none of these glimpses of poetizing without writing is intended to incorporate a signature into the epic matter, there is prima-facie evidence that Beowulf and the Homeric poems each derive from an oral tradition.