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  • Hindu shrine newly built in Kathmandu street.  Woman in red sari emerges after making an offering to the deity within. Building rubble piled in front, not having been removed.  A second shrine of similar type can be seen down the street  Both are very small; a home for the figure of the deity inside.
    Hindu-shrine-Kathmandu-NPL200110-4-2...jpg
  • Angkor Wat : modern Buddha shrine within the temple, its figure of the Buddha having also four pairs of arms as a Hindu figure of Shiva.
    Buddhist_Hindu_deity_statue_KHM20060...jpg
  • Close up view of the facade of a small Hindu shrine in a Patan town square.  Statue of the deity dimly visible inside, covered with marigold petals for the Dasain festival.  Niche shrine in the wall on each side of the entrance.  Carved stone imitating Newari wood style, with brick infill.
    Hindu-shrine-Patan-NPL200110-04-26.jpg
  • Angkor: Prasat Kravan (10th century): east facade in the morning sun, seen from the altar opposite.  Shadows of tree branches stretch across the grass towards the temple. Tourist figure visible in center and left hand doorways.  A small charming Hindu - influenced temple in the Angkor complex.
    Angkor_temple-Prasat_Kravan_KHM20060...jpg
  • Detail of carved wooden roof struts, each with a multi-armed Hindu deity and small erotic panels. Nerwari style sculpture.
    Newari-style-roof-struts-NPL200110-1...jpg
  • Colonnade of the Quwwat ul Islam mosque in the Mehrauli Archaeological Park, Delhi.  Early Islamic structure in India uses rich Hindu ornament on the columns of the prayer hall.  Tourists linger in the shadow of a column, only partly visible.
    Delhi_Mehrauli_IND200111-1-7.jpg
  • On a hill near Phan Rang, South Vietnam, the Cham towers of Po Klong Garai, seen from a new parking lot lit by street lamps whose shapes echo the shape of the brick towers.  The group of small Hindu temples are still used for worship by Vietnamese Buddhists as well as Cham descendants.  They are built of brick without mortar.
    Cham_towers_VTN200602--026.jpg
  • Angkor Wat, closeup of two Apsara dancers and panel of foliage ornament.  Apsaras in Khmer combination of Hindu and Buddhist traditions represent supernatural sacred nymphs.
    Apsara dancers panel KHM200602-299.jpg
  • Door jamb of Qala i Kuhna Mascid, Purana Qila, Delhi.
    Delhi_Qala_i_Kuhna__IND200111-01-30.jpg
  • The central figures is an ancient marble image of Brahma flanked by his consorts, Gayatri Devi and Savitri Devi (left and right).   They are 11th century sculptures preserved in a recent building in the town of Nagara just outside of Khambhat
    Brahma-statue-IND201301-0667.jpg
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  • Friday mosque, Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park.
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  • Blonde Western tourist in discussion with a crowd of Indian adolescents on a school visit about taking their photograph.
    American-tourist-Indian-teens-IND201...jpg
  • Modhera-sun-temple-IND201301--0748.jpg
  • View from the interior of the window of pierced stone in squares, each square filled with a geometric or curvelinear motif.
    Geometric-window-grille-IND201301--0...jpg
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  • Po Klong Garai Towers, a Champa temple site, off the road between Dalat and Nha Trang, Vietnam.  The towers were built in the late 13th & early 14th century to worship King Po Klong Garai.  Detail of a sculpture relief of a dancing Shiva in a l;eaf-shaped tympanum above the door lintel.
    Shiva_dancing_sculpture_relief_VTN20...jpg
  • Friday mosque, Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park.  Mughal ornament in a provincial style locally known as Indo-Saracenic.  Tomb in the center of the precinct, arcaded enclosure wall beyond.
    Champaner_Friday_Mosque_IND201301--0...jpg
  • Friday mosque, Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park, view of courtyard and enclosure from entrance porch.  Jain craftsmen applying Jain techniques to Moslem building.
    Champaner-Jama-Mascid-IND201301--054...jpg
  • three Gujarati women selling fish food at Dwarka.
    Three-Gujarati-women-IND201301--1361.jpg
  • Outside the Lion Gate in Durbar Square, stone statue of a ferocious lion; behind it and to the left, a stone carving of Ugrachandi, the god Shiva's consort in her fearful manifestation.  Man passes right on a bicyle; two Nepali women walk by on the left.
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  • Sun temple colonnade overlooking water-filled tank and steps.
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  • Bhaktapur, World Heritage city, Shiva statue, head & shoulders, trident behind.  The face is daubed with red paint in celebration of Dasain.
    Statue Shiva Bhaktapur NPL200110-2-9.jpg
  • Entrance to the temple precinct of Vishnu at Changu Narayan in the Kathmandu Valley.  A temple has been on the site since the 5th century.  Changu Narayan is one of the Monument Zones designated by UNESCO as a world heritage site.
    Nepal-Changu-Narayan-NPL200110-6-1a.jpg
  • Modhera, 11th century Sun temple colonnade overlooking water-filled tank and steps, orchard beyond.  The all-over carvings of the columns are in Jain style.
    Modhera_Sun_Temple_IND201301-0757.jpg
  • Sun temple colonnade overlooking water-filled tank and steps.
    Modhera-sun-temple-USA.VA201209-a-07...jpg
  • Angkor Wat: shrine worker collecting money offerings from a Buddhist altar within Angkor Wat. One of the sacred pools visible outside the doorways.
    Angkor_Wat_interior_KHM200602_089.jpg
  • Three young women offer incense in a temple at the Champa site of Po Nagar.  The atmosphere shows clouds of burning incense.  The statue on the altar, presumably Po Nagar herself,  to whom they make their offerings, resembles and may also be the Vietnamese Goddess of Mercy, or Quan Am.  The statue is elaborately dressed and decorated, as is the altar.
    Po Nagar-Vietnamese_VTN200602-044.jpg
  • Cham towers of Po Nagar (a goddess) near Nha <br />
Trang, Vietnam.  This tower built in 817AD of brick without mortar. This figure is a four-armed Shiva dancing on the sacred bull Nandin.  These towers were abandoned after the end of the Champa kingdom in the 18th century.  Recently revived as a place of worship for the local Champa people, a minority in the Vietnamese population.
    Shiva at Po Nagar VTN200602-042.jpg
  • A passerby tosses a handful of marigold petals onto a statue of winged Garuda, already splashed with vermilion and petals.  Only her arm and hand gesturing with its shadow is visible, as is the shadow of a trident nearby, balancing the composition and framing the figure of Garuda. The 10 day annual Dashain festival is enthusiastically celebrated in Kathmandu..
    Spiritual_practise_Dashain_NPL200110...jpg
  • Outside the Lion Gate in Durbar Square, stone statue of a ferocious lion; behind it and to the left, a stone carving of Ugrachandi, the god Shiva's consort in her fearful manifestation.  Two women tourists examine the latter closely, one pointing to a feature; young Nepal man in red pants lounges against the lion statue as though waiting for them.
    NPL200110-2-7.jpg
  • Changu Narayan temple precinct; a World Heritage site, Kathmandu valley.  Closeup of locked temple door; woman and child passersby..
    ChanguNarayan_NPL200110-6-6.jpg
  • Changu Narayan temple precinct; a World Heritage site, Kathmandu valley.  Temple dedicated to Chakra Narayan, traditionally built in 5th century and so the oldest temple in Kathmandu valley. Scattering of tourists study the structure.  The area is crowded with statuary and other sacred structures as well as living quarters of the caretakers.
    ChanguNarayan_NPL200110-06-4.jpg
  • Cham towers of Po Nagar (a goddess) near Nha .Trang, Vietnam.  Built in the 13th-14th century of brick without mortar, they were abandoned after the end of the Champa kingdom in the 18th century.  Recently revived as a place of worship for the local Champa people, a minority in the Vietnamese population.  A young Vietnamese woman in blue denim shorts takes an incense stick from the cauldron set up just in front of one of the temples..
    Po Nagar-Vietnamese_VTN200602-051.jpg
  • Bhaktapur, World Heritage city, Shiva statue, head & shoulders, trident behind.  The face is daubed with red paint in celebration of Dasain..
    NPL200110-2-9.jpg
  • Angkor: Prasat Kravan (10th century): interior brick wall relief of Lakshmi holding her attributes, with kneeling worshippers.  Seen from the side, from the entrance doorway.
    Angkor_temple_Prasat_Kravan_sculptur...jpg
  • Angkor, Prasat Kravan, 10th century. Interior of central tower, brick wall relief of Vishnu stepping across the universe.
    Angkor_temple_Prasat_Kravan_interior...jpg
  • Hindu shrine newly built in Kathmandu street.  Woman in red sari emerges after making an offering to the deity within. She carries a plate and jug as she descends the stairs.  Building rubble piled in front, not having been removed.  A second shrine of similar type can be seen down the street  Both are very small; a home for the figure of the deity inside.
    New_Hindu_temple_shrine_NPL200110-4-...jpg
  • Hindu shrine in a Kathmandu street; seated Nepali man wearing a Dhaka Topi (traditional hat) contemplates red-painted niche in nearby wall.  He is a solitary and contemplative figure against the shrine background of freshly painted red brick..
    Kathmandu-shrine-solitary-man-NPL200...jpg
  • Bakong, near the town of Roluos, is the oldest temple in the Angkor Archaeological Park (9th century).  View of the central pyramid of five levels, of brick and sandstone, reconstructed during the 1930s from original building parts.  The pyramid symbolizes Mount Meru of Hindu cosmology.
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  • Young people lounging on the stepped platform of a Hindu temple in Patan, Kathmandu, Nepal.
    patan-temple-Dasain-NPL200110-4-36.jpg
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