Sentences with phrase «thousands of temples»

There are literally thousands of temples to discover on this wondrous island, but Pura Besakih, commonly known as the «Mother Temple of Bali», is not to be missed.

Each Hindu family has family temple to worship Hyang Widhi and their ancestors, so that there are thousands of temples in the island of Bali.

From high - rise - filled cities to small mountain villages, with thousands of temples and gardens in between, visitors often find it difficult to decide where to go in Japan.

Spend the afternoon exploring this extraordinary site, where ancient pyramids tower more than 200 feet and thousands of temples, shrines, and plazas are scattered beneath the rain forest canopy.

You'll be greeted with warmth by the Balinese people, and will undoubtedly experience their culture by visiting many of the island's thousands of temples.

As he said during a campaign stop, «Villages have hundreds of thousands of temples but no washrooms.

Picture gridlocked traffic at almost all hours of the day, thousands of temples that can be found on every second corner...

In thousands of temples across southern India, priests break a coconut before an idol of their gods, and distribute the meat to devotees as a sort of communion.

One of the most influential additions to Christianity was the mass inclusion of thousands of temples across the entire Roman Empire.

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The entire economy of the city of Jerusalem was built on temple activities, bathing before the offerings for a fee, dressing for going to the temple, for a fee, buying the offerings, for a fee, paying the priests, temple entrance fees, food prep fees, growing and feeding the animals for the sacrifices, being paid for them, in the thousands and thousands at festival times, ALL in Jewish currency only, which was required for their rituals, and most people used Roman currency for their civil affairs.

The church has to maintain and operate 152 temples and counting and tens of thousands of chapels.

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However, when we look at the book of Ezra — which takes place approximately a thousand years after God spoke to Moses, hundreds of years after many of the Psalms were written, and 400 years before Jesus Christ was born — we see that Zahnd's theory is simply inaccurate, as Israel reinstituted sacrifices to God even before they began reconstructing the temple (Ezra 3).

If the mormons were making little dolls of each Jewish person they were baptizing after death and instead of «baptizing» them they held a little ceremony where they stuff thousands of the dolls into the gas oven beneath their temple to «figuratively» commit genocide would you be okay with it?

At Passover, thousands of Jews concentrated in a rather small area in and around the temple to celebrate, while under Roman rule, their deliverance from ancient Egyptian bondage.

the priesthood ended at the destruction of the temple, the old testament ended, and the new testament began in the first century, we no longer have a priesthood after the destruction of the temple, these people are liveing two thousand years in the past,

Thousands of pagan temples were transformed into places of Christian worship.

Look at everything else that is a part of religion — rituals in thousands of forms and dozens of types; religious pilgrimages to Mecca, to Lourdes, or to the camp meeting in the next county; artistic symbols from Sallman's head of Christ to the rose window at Chartes Cathedral, from Muslim temples to statues of Buddha to Amish furniture.

Nahonidus, last king of Semitic Babylonia, having dug down to the foundation of the temple in Sippar, discovered, he relates, the foundation tablet of «King Naram Sin who lived thirty - six hundred years before my time»: an error of more than a thousand years, which, however, does not qualify the significance of the document.

Bottomline, there are thousands and thousands of Ethiopian Jews and they've been in Ethiopia for as long as anyone can remember and, in fact, many of them grow up not knowing about the existence of very very light skinned Jews, (such as myself, of the Jews who fled to Northern Europe at the great dispersion after the destruction of the temple, and after thousands of years living in the frigid north, with low levels of sun, and exposure to the sun, our skin slowly became lighter and lighter, hence I am considered «White», but it simply means my ancestors gravitated northward to the land of little sun, and Ethiopian Jews, and of course South African and West African Jews (identified positively by DNA) have much darker skin, even to that of very very deep velvet Black...) Black is beautiful!

Fink remembers a childhood visit to Disney World's Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida, where he was «surrounded by thousands of people, all who had spent considerable time and money to stand in a temple to science.

Generally, when we think of ancient Egypt, we think of grandiose pyramids and temples to thousands of gods.

Every year tens of thousands of pilgrims embark on the holy pilgrimage to the Amaranth temple in Jammu and Kashmir.

On the north side of the main temple area, there is a nature cave dwelt by thousand of bats.

This city is full of the largest Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in their thousands.

Set on the island of Honshu and full of myriad gardens, palaces, and temples, Kyoto's history goes back thousands of years, and a wedding at Kamigamo Shrine allows couples to embrace the spiritual reverence of Kyoto while including traditional performances and culinary experiences of the region, including a sacred sake barrel top breaking, perfect for a celebratory post-wedding reception.

Dramatically ringed by mountains on the island of Java, the monumental temple of Borobudur — the world's largest Buddhist structure — was swallowed by dense jungle for close to a thousand years.

Ttravelers have the opportunity to walk into temples that have stood for thousands of years, observe ancient cities that have crumbled to ruins with little remnants of their triumphant past, and get lost in a labyrinth of back roads and alleyways in the mud towns of Yazd and Karnaq.

Known as the land of a thousand temples, Bali is home to more than 5,000 stunning examples.

This is a big historical attraction and contains a ball court, several platforms, temples with thousands of columns, many other temples and another pyramid that is spreads over 5 square kilometres.

«At most, it adds another 5 - 10 mins to your exploring, but does offer a lot of less visited places to explore along the way — allowing you to take your time exploring many of the thousand temples away from the crowds.»

A holy Hindi temple with three sacred pools of water, one of which has been taken over by thousands of monkeys that congregate to swim and bathe.

While house sitting in Kyoto we accidentally discovered a cool lantern sculpture display in a local temple; while couch surfing in a small town in Paraguay our host took us to a local festival that included fireball (yes, football with a flaming ball); and while living in Chiang Mai for five months we joined Thai families in a mass release of thousands of lighted lanterns at the Yee Peng festival.

If you're in Malaysia for the Thaipusam celebration, you can glimpse thousands of devotees carrying offerings to the temple.

As you might have notices, there are a lot of history museums and photos of temples, churches, palaces or ruins — I have taken thousands of... Continue reading →

Secluded from the distractions of daily life, resort guests will discover the peace of mind and body that has drawn devotees to area mandapas, or temples, for thousands of years.

Pura Goa Lawah example, where the temple is located at the mouth of a cave filled with thousands of bats.

Ancient Bagan nestles on a loop of the Irrawaddy, tamarind tree plains with over two thousand 11th - 13th century temples, some with frescoes and statuary, many rarely visited, collectively magnificent.

As a former capital of Japan for over a thousand years, Kyoto is filled with ancient history and a wealth of incredible architecture, including the Kinkajuki temple, a beautiful traditional Japanese building set on a calm pond and decorated in gold leaf, and the Gion district, the most famous geisha district in Kyoto.

The city attracts hundreds of thousands of Hindus on pilgrimages; one of Varanasi's most famous sights is the Holy River Ganges - and more specifically, the sight of hundreds of Hindu pilgrims bathing in the river at sunrise in front of one of the many wonderful temples.

There's «island of the gods», and «land of a thousand temples» (though there's more than that).

With thousands of beautiful temples, grand royal cities and gorgeous landscapes, there's plenty to find appealing in Myanmar and to get you inspired, here we've listed some of our favourite places.

By visiting Burma in February, you'll beat the hottest time of year in sprawling cities like Mandalay, and get to see the Land of a Thousand Temples when skies are clearest and Balloons over Bagan are still flying.

Muslim - friendly hotels in Bali come in no shortage, even though the island is known as the «island of a thousand temples», with a predominantly Hindu population.

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Every year, thousands of people gather at the spring and autumn equinoxes to watch a serpent - shaped shadow slither down the pyramid steps, thanks to the artistry of the temple's builders.

This enormous site includes thousands of Buddhist temples, shrines, and monasteries.

Thousands of Garuda reliefs decorate the temple walls all over the island.

Out of more than 20,000 thousand temples in Bali, Pura Dalem Jawa in Bunutin village, in Bangli regency has its unique characteristic that can not be found in any other temples in Bali.

A very important temple to the Balinese, whilst most tourist mainly come here to see the thousands of bats within the temple.