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  • Section 1: China does not want to create a new Tibet in the Xinjiang

    Posted on June 19, 2017 3:32 pm by griell Comment

    The Xinjiang is a China Autonomous Region, in which the original population is Muslim. It was the territory for the Great Game, between UK and Russia for the control of Central Asia, on the second half of XIX Century, while the region – nominally Chinese or independent – was ruled by different warlords.


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  • Buddhist temples, a primer in structure and iconography ( and 3)

    Posted on June 14, 2016 8:01 pm by griell Comment

    The Back Hall


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  • Buddhist temples, a primer in structure and iconography (2)

    Posted on June 10, 2016 5:04 pm by griell Comment

    A bodhisattva is a compassionate Buddha-like being who has elected to postpone his or her own enlightenment in order to assist others on their journey. Commonly shown in female form, she is also known colloquially as the “Goddess of Mercy,” and is often depicted pouring from a vial containing “elixir of compassion.” Other representations of this bodhisattva have numerous arms and heads, symbolizing a limitless ability to relieve the suffering of others.


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  • Buddhist Monasteries. A primer on Structure and Iconography (1)

    Posted on June 4, 2016 5:16 pm by griell Comment

    When the pilgrim enters a Catholic Monastery, Shrine or Church there are statues and/or paintings of different people, either Saints, or Vergins, or Martirs. Traditionally we all know who they are due to their respective iconography, say, Saint Anthony has always lilies (he devoted his Purity to the Christ in front of the altar the Blessed Virgin Mary – BTW, the interest on the sexuality of the Saints is a constant in Catholicism -), a book and Jesus young boy is in his arms. So, when we see a statue or a painting that shows a man, with some lilies, a book and bearing a boy, there is no need to ask, you may start preying to get an spouse (he is the Saint to pray if you want to do a good wedding).


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  • Buddhist Monastery architecture in China. Vihara (and 3)

    Posted on June 1, 2016 8:04 am by griell Comment

    Kuan Yin, also known as Avalokiteshvara, is a bodhisattva who is one of the most widely worshipped deities among the Chinese. A bodhisattva is a compassionate Buddha-like being who has elected to postpone his or her own enlightenment in order to assist others on their journey. Commonly shown in female form, she is also known colloquially as the “Goddess of Mercy,” and is often depicted pouring from a vial containing “elixir of compassion.


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  • Buddhist Monastery architecture in China. Vihara (2)

    Posted on May 29, 2016 10:12 pm by griell 1 Comment

    In the Song Dynasty (960-1279), the Chan (Zen) sect developed a new ‘seven part structure’ for temples. The seven parts – the Buddha hall, dharma hall, monks’ quarters, depository, gate, pure land hall and toilet facilities – completely exclude pagodas, and can be seen to represent the final triumph of the traditional Chinese palace/courtyard system over the original central-pagoda tradition established 1000 years earlier by the White Horse Temple in 67.


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  • Buddhist monastery architecture in China (1). General View

    Posted on May 27, 2016 11:18 am by griell 1 Comment

    Thanks to Umberto Eco’s the Name of the Rose, we all know the architecture of a Cistercian Monastery: the Church, and next to it the Cloister which is the Center of the public life of the Monastery. Monks sleep in the Dormitorium, which is open to the Cloister’s second floor, and pass their time on the ground level, either in the garden, in the Scriptorium or in the Refectorium. Next to it, logically, stands the kitchen. Usually there is a direct entrance to the Cloister, with storage for goods. The (usually spectacular) Capitular Hall opens, alone, towards the Cloister


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  • Buddhist Monastic Life and the Vinaya. Daily life -2-

    Posted on May 23, 2016 7:26 am by griell Comment

    (starts in the preceeding post. Link)


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  • Buddhist Monastic Life and the Vinaya -1-

    Posted on May 20, 2016 4:17 pm by griell 1 Comment

    Buddhist Monks are called Bhikkus (“who lives from alms”). Originally, Bhikkhus were people who left everything beneath them and lived on alms, like Jesus’ disciples. Bhikkus wandered the countryside, they stopped somewhere, where they spoke the teachings of Buddha. Lay people feed them, and gave them cover. During the three months of the Monsoon, they gathered together in temporary shelters, which become monasteries later on.


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  • Three or Four brush strokes on Buddhism

    Posted on May 17, 2016 8:05 pm by griell Comment

    I almost wrote this title “Buddhism for Dummies”, but I am sure that you are not Dummy, nor I can explain buddhism, even to Dummies. Initially this post was about the architecture of Buddhist Monasteries in China, but speaking about Monasteries without details about monastic life and Buddhism had no sense… so, let us start with some brushstrokes on Buddhism and its differences compared to Christianity.


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