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  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : partial view of two adjoining temples, side by side, so that all their columns seem to cluster together.  A group of tourists partly visible below one of the temple platforms.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-097.jpg
  • Women worshippers lined up to visit one of the Jain temples at Shatrunjaya.
    Shatrunjaya pilgrims -IND201301--095...jpg
  • Two boys and a girl aged 8 to 11 jumping in the son et lumiere theater platform. Each is caught in the air.  Sphinx and pyramid of Chephren (Khafre) beyond, with other temple ruins on each side.
    Giza-pyramids-Sphinx-children--EGY19...jpg
  • Angkor, Banteay Srei: cluster of sanctuaries in the center of the complex. Tiny chapels are sited close together, giving a somewhat claustrophobic feeling to some visitors.
    Angkor_temple_Banteay_Srei_interior_...jpg
  • There are 3800 steps up to the Shatrunjaya Jain shrine complex at Palitana, so stopping to rest is useful.
    Jain-pilgrim-IND201301--0897.jpg
  • Head and shoulders of two porters who carry pilgrims up the long steep hill at Shatrunjaya to the Jain sanctuaries at the top.  These two carried me, complaining about my weight.
    Two Gujarati porters at Palitana -IN...jpg
  • pilgrims wearing white and traditionally descend the stairs running in bare feet.
    Jain-women-pilgrims-IND201301--0903.jpg
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  • Jain woman pilgrim IND201301--0955.dng
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  • Tourist-Palitana-chair-lift-IND20130...jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple to Hera, the earliest of the three temples at Paestum, seen from an angle that shows its siting in relation to the distant mountain.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-093.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : Temple of HeraII, Neptune, or Hera and Zeus.  Classic 5th century Doric style.  Part of its peristyle columns and entablature are visible through pine trees and shrubbery.  The temple points toward the mountain in the distance.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-090.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple of Athena or Ceres; workman in orange jumpsuit wields a motorized weed clipper in front of the temple.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-073.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple of Athena or Ceres from the city ruins and wall stumps.  An umbrella pine dominates the area.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-082.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : Temple of HeraII, Neptune, or Hera and Zeus.  Classic 5th century Doric style.  Comparison with the trunk of a nearby pine tree suggests the original source of the Doric column flutes.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-089.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple to Hera II, Neptune, or Hera & Zeus (disputed attribution of dedication); Doric order and blue sky
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-102.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple to Hera II, Neptune, or Hera & Zeus (disputed attribution of dedication). Detail of five columns from bottom to top with curved shadows of the next column capital showing near the top of each.  Parallelism and togetherness; repetition.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-099.jpg
  • Angkor Thom, row of plastic chairs, waiting for tired tourists to rest and drink water, outside one of the ruined temples ( prasats )
    Angkor_Thom_visitors-KHM200602-287.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
  • 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
  • Kathmandu, Patan, Golden Temple during Dasain holiday, 2001.  Facade of temple in courtyard; monks' dorms beyond; statue of god seated on elephant faces the facade; rattle symbol on steps of entrance...Temple also called Hiranya Karna Mahabinar, the Kwa Bahal, or the Suvarna Mahavihara, is a unique Buddhist monastery..Kathmandu, Patan, Golden Temple during Dasain holiday, 2001.  Facade of temple in courtyard; monks' dorms beyond; statue of god seated on elephant faces the facade; rattle symbol on steps of entrance...
    Patan-Golden-Temple-NPL200110-5-4.jpg
  • Kathmandu, Patan, Golden Temple during Dasain holiday, 2001.  Facade and entrance gate, frontal view.  Two guardian lion sculptures, one on either side of the approach. Figure on the right has female breasts painted a vivid orange. Bhaskerdev Samskarita Hiranyabarna Mahavihara: A Buddhist temple known locally as Golden Temple, located in the Durbar Square monument zone of the Kathmandu Valley.
    Patan-Golden-Temple-NPL200110-5-22.jpg
  • Column capitals of the Temple of Athena at Assos, Turkey, lie scattered on the ground in 1968.The temple, is sited on a cliff that overlooked the ancient city (where Aristotle lived for a time) and now overlooks a tiny picturesque village port. It is the earliest archaic Doric temple in Turkey, dating about 530 BC.
    Assos_archaic_Doric_capitals_TUR1968...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
  • Shree Swaminarayan Temple, Kalupur, Ahmedabad: large group of women seated on the marble floor, a row of men seated in front, chant a meditation.
    Jain-worshippers-Swami-Narayan-IND20...jpg
  • Couple meditating in the Jain temple to Adinath at Ranakhpur, built in 1439 in reign of Rana Kumbha, after businessman Dharma Sah dreamed that he should build a temple to Adinath, primary Jain deity, just at this spot.  Has 1444 columns each uniquely & richly carved with deities and floral motifs.
    Couple meditating Ranakhpur Jain tem...jpg
  • Ostia Antica, ruins of Republican era temple of Heracles.  Statue of C. Cartilius Poplicola on the temple platform.  Late afternoon sun, slanted shadows.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1044.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
  • Tiered roofs of the Patan temple Jagannarayan Mandir, with a figure of King Yoganarandra Malla on the top of a column in front of it.  Patan Durbar Square, a UNESCO Monument Zone in the Kathmandu Valley. Temple dated late 16th century.  The king ruled ca. 1685-1706.
    Nepal-Patan-temple-NPL200110-5-5sc.jpg
  • The temple of Athena after partial reconstruction first during the 1980s and a more technically proficient reconstruction during 2008.  View across the temple area, marked by masonry laid on the ground, toward the sea and island of Lesbos.  It is a spectacular setting.
    Assos_temple_recontruction_TUR199710...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
  • Angkor Thom: Bayon temple: two Cambodian boys looking out one of the temple window embrasures, gazing at the camera as they are seated on the sill.
    Angkor_Thom_Bayon boys KHM200602-017.jpg
  • Frontal view of the Sphink from below, where the original temple was, between its paws.  A silhouette of the temple wall fragment visible at left.  The blue sky makes a nice negative space around the objects.
    Giza-Sphinx-EGY198005-1-15.jpg
  • Gentleman on retreat at the 15th century Jain Temple to Adinath at Ranakpur pauses willingly for a portrait.  Within the precinct no shoes and no leather (such as in belts or watch bands) is permitted.  The gentleman wears bright red pants and a bright yellow shawl.
    Indian gentleman on retreat -IND2001...jpg
  • Agrigento or Akragas: Temple of Concord with scaffolding and demonstration curtain on west facade restoration scaffolding meant to show the original appearance of the temple.  Restoration is funded by EC and has to be finished by the end of 2006.  Later photos do not show the curtain.
    ITA200610-028.jpg
  • painted plaster figure of a pilgrim on the facade of a Jain temple in a Kutch village, Gujarat.
    Statue Jain pilgrim Kutch IND201301-...jpg
  • Sun temple colonnade overlooking water-filled tank and steps.
    Modhera-sun-temple-USA.VA201209-a-07...jpg
  • Bhaktapur, Durbar Sq, Nyatapola temple, steps & statuary, built 1708.  Looking up the stairs; statue of Shiva in the foreground..
    NPL200110-2-12.jpg
  • Frontal view of Nayatapola temple in Bhaktapur, looking up its steep staircase.  Built in 1708.   Seated statue of Shiva in the foreground.  All five levels of its pagoda-like roof are visible against the sky.
    Bhaktapur-Nayatapola-temple-NPL20011...jpg
  • 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
  • Angkor Thom, Bayon temple approached from the west gate in morning sunshine.
    Angkor_Thom_Bayon_entrance_KHM200602...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
  • Segesta: View from behind the ancient Elymian temple itself into the quarry from which its building rocks were dug out.  It is a vast hole.  Beyond, farm fields, pine forest, and a high hill.
    Segesta-quarry-landscape-ITA200610-2...tif
  • Man and woman seated together meditating on the cool marble floor of Ranakhpur, Jain temple built in 1439 in reign of Rana Kumbha, after businessman Dharma Sah dreamed that he should build a temple to Adinath, primary Jain deity, just at this spot.  Has 1444 columns each uniquely & richly carved with deities and floral motifs.  Beyond the couple, sunlight pours into an adjoining open courtyard.
    Ranakhpur_meditation_IND200111-8-4.jpg
  • Ostia Antica Republican era Temple of Heracles in late afternoon.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1045.jpg
  • Nyatapola Temple approach stairway and statues, looking up from the bottom.  View underneath the five pagoda roofs shows some of the carved wooden struts underneath them.  A few tourists just partly visible behind the elephant statue on its pedestal.
    NPL200110-13-11sc.jpg
  • Angkor, Banteay Prei: facade with banyan tree growing out of it.  This temple served as an encampment for government soldiers fighting the Khmer Rouge.
    Angkor_temple_Banteay_Prei_KHM200602...jpg
  • Angkor Wat: west entrance gateway and the 820 foot long causeway, looking toward the temple.  Subsidiary buildings just visible in the distance.  The long approach is meant to convey the journey from earth to heaven in the temple precinct.
    Angkor_Wat_exterior_west_KHM200602_0...jpg
  • Bhaktapur, Nyatapola temple, steps & statuary, built 1708.  Looking up the stairs; statue of Shiva in the foreground, at the bottom of the stairway.
    Bhaktapur-Nayatapola-Shiva-NPL200110...jpg
  • Bhaktapur main square from the top of the Nayatapola Temple.  Visitors dot the pavement, one beginning to climb the temple stairs. Mountain landscape beyond to the south of the square.  High noon, direct sunlight.
    Bhaktapur-town-square-NPL200110-13-1...jpg
  • Flower seller outside the 15th century Jain temple at Ranakhpur, seated cross legged, offering flowers for sale.
    Portrait-Indian-man-IND200111-15-3.jpg
  • Frontal view of Nyatapola temple in Bhaktapur, Nepal.  Viewpoint looking up its steep staircase.  Built in 1708.   Seated statue of Shiva in the foreground.  All five levels of its pagoda-like roof are visible against the sky.
    Bhaktapur temple Nyatapola NPL200110...jpg
  • Showing Nike temple, Herod theatre, and Parthenon, above surrounding wall and greenery.  Group of tourists emerge from trees below.
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  • General view of Bhaktapur, one of the seven Monument Zones in the Kathmandu Valley designated by UNESCO, repaired and restored.  Vendor of sweets in the foreground with his cart; visitors and tourists dotted about the pavement; Nayatapola temple across the square.
    Bhaktapur-NPL200110-13-01.jpg
  • View across Durbar Square toward the countryside beyond from the upper platform of the Nyatapola Temple.  The square is empty except for a scattering of a dozen or so people walking about.
    NPL200110-13-12sc.jpg
  • A Temple to Shiva with light scaffolding around it and a billboard examined by a male visitor: Italian-funded UNESCO conservation works in progress.
    My_Son_VTN200602--0463.jpg
  • Statue of Garuda, Vishnu's winged vehicle, dated 5th-6th century,oldest known sculpture in Nepal, in.Changu Narayan temple precinct.  It is covered with red paint for the Dasain holiday.
    Statue_Garuda_NPL200110-6-16.jpg
  • Sun temple colonnade overlooking water-filled tank and steps.
    USA.VA201209-a-0757.jpg
  • Kathmandu, Swayambhunath Stupa, monkey temple festooned with prayer flags for Dasain festival.  Multiple strings of multi-colored flags weave a thick fabric against the sky.
    Prayer-flags-Nepal-stupa-NPL200110-3...jpg
  • Wat Rong Khun, located between Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai.  Buddhist temple designed and built by Chalermchai Kositpipat, a devout painter of religious works who has made creating this complex, dedicated to the present King, his life's work.  Image shows the approach bridge over a plaster base from which disembodied arms and hands reach upward.  Trousered legs of a visitor are seen walking across the bridge.
    Wat Rong Khun THA200603_023.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temple seen from ruins of the city.  An oak (?) tree towers over the ancient structure, still standing.  A different interpretation of nature overcoming the works of man.
    Paestum_trees_ITA200610-083.tif
  • 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
  • Kathmandu, Swayambhunath Stupa, monkey temple festooned with prayer flags for Dasain festival.  Multiple strings of multi-colored flags weave a thick fabric against the sky.
    Stupa festooned with prayer flags NP...jpg
  • Young people lounging on the stepped platform of a Hindu temple in Patan, Kathmandu, Nepal.
    patan-temple-Dasain-NPL200110-4-36.jpg
  • Nepali woman in a sari, baby tied to her back, makes an offering at an 18th century temple in Kathmandu, while a British young woman nearby studies the Newari wood carving of its colonnade and roof struts.
    Kathmandu-offering-NPL200110-10-7 co...jpg
  • Modhera-sun-temple-IND201301--0748.jpg
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  • Angkor, Banteay Srei:  cluster of central sanctuaries and other structures; two tourists in white hats in the foreground..
    Angkor_temple_Banteay_Srei_interior_...jpg
  • 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
  • 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
  • Exterior of a hall in the compound.  A visitor (man) sits on the steps putting on his shoes.  The carved wooden doors are fronted by carved marble columns.
    Hanoi_Temple_Literature__VTN200602--...jpg
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  • Looking upward toward the golden Buddha at the top of the Wat Arun central "prang" or pyramidal tower.  Plain stairway dominates, while the walls on either side are decorated with bits of ceramic, figures, flowers, and borders of intricate design.  A golden figure of the Buddha seated on three elephants is at the top.  Construction began in 1809, using rubble brought on ships as ballast.
    Bangkok_Wat_Arun_THA200603_086.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
  • Sukothai, statue of a walking Buddha outside the Wat Traphang Nguyen.  An offering of a few white blossoms hangs from his upraised left hand.  The figure appears to sway in some kind of sacred dance.
    Sukhothai_Buddha_Traphang_Nguyen_THA...jpg
  • Bronze statue of a seated Buddha outside Wat Sa Si (?)
    Sukhothai_Buddha_THA200603_115.jpg
  • Sukothai, Wat Mahathat seen from across a pond in which it is partly reflected
    Sukhothai_wat_Mahathat__THA200603_11...jpg
  • Group of standing gilded wooden Buddha figures, each wrapped in a red stole, in a storeroom on the grounds of the Wat Xieng Thong in Luang Prabang, Laos.  One Figure in the foreground holds both hands in front in the "peace" gesture.  The others have their hands hanging down at their sides.
    Bring_peace_Buddha_saying_LAO200601-...jpg
  • Ta Som : gopura, closeup of the head and face
    Angkor_gopura-Ta_Som-KHM200602-251.jpg
  • Tempietto di Bramante, in courtyard of San Pietro di Montorio. 1502, on the site where St. Peter is supposed to have been crucified.  Round, Doric order, dome, seen through arched entrance.
    Bramante-tempietto-Rome_ITA200901--1...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
  • Closeup, wide angle, of seated gigantic Buddha in its enclosure at Phra Achana, Wat Sri Chum.
    Sukhothai_Buddha_Sri_Chum_THA200603_...jpg
  • Monks visiting the gigantic seated Buddha at Wat Sri Chum, Sukhothai
    Sukhothai_Buddha_Sri_Chum_THA200603_...jpg
  • Wat Sa Si seen from across the wooden bridge
    Sukhothai_wat_sa_si__THA200603_127.jpg
  • Wat Mahathat, Sukhothai, side view, with a woman visitor contemplating the white Buddha statue from among the truncated columns.
    Sukhothai_wat_mahathat_THA200603_118.jpg
  • Egyptian official at Luxor, seated at his desk in his office by the entrance to the site, writes carefully in his logbook.  Wears a blue galabeyya, white turban, and purple overscarf.  Parallel shadows from the barred entrance gate cast curved bars of light on the irregular stone wall behind him.
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  • Sukothai, Thailand, statue of seated Buddha at Wat Trapang Nguyen.  Frontal view.
    Sukhothai_Buddha_Trapang_Nguyen_THA2...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
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple of Athena or Ceres; workman wielding a weed cutter along the temple steps
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-075.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple to Hera II, Neptune, or Hera & Zeus (disputed attribution of dedication); detail of Doric column, capital, and entablature.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-101.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : view across the ancient city ruins toward the temple of Athena or Ceres.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-076.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : Doric temple of Athena or Ceres showing its orientation toward the sacred mountain above the site.  The perfect parallelism of the flanking colonnade visually locks with the landscape beyond.  For more about this theory, see Vincent Scully's "The Earth, the temple, and the gods."
    Paestum_temple_landscape_ITA200610-0...jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple of Athena or Ceres; workman wielding a weed cutter along the temple steps
    ITA200610-075.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple to Hera II, Neptune, or Hera & Zeus (disputed attribution of dedication)
    ITA200610-098.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : Temple of HeraII, Neptune, or Hera and Zeus.  Classic 5th century Doric style.
    ITA200610-089.jpg
  • Kathmandu, Durbar Square, temples under restoration; supports; corrugated tin walls..
    Kathmandu-Durbar-Square-restoration-...jpg
  • Group of seven musicians playing traditional Southeast Asian instruments provide concert music and offer CDs of their performances for sale, outside one of the Angkor temples.  All are amputees, victims of land mine explosions, and this is how they earn a living.  One man, hand to his mouth, is actually playing the melody on a broad leaf.
    KHM200602-088 (1).jpg
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