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“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are, When you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to you.”
— Lao Tzu
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“How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you’ll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter.”
— Charles Bukowski
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“If you still talk about it, you still care about it.”
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The Lakṣmaṇa Temple
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Built in the early 10th Century CE (930 – 950 CE) in the reign of Rājā Yaśovarman of Kanyākubja dedicated to the Vaikuṅṭha Caturmūrti form of Śri Viṣṇu
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Ghata, or sacred pot, used as a embodiment of Goddess, Bengal
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Bamakhepa (as a young boy) attempting to feed the murti of Ma Tara
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“Rangzen” - tibetan word for “Independence” and “Freedom”
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The Bayon Temple is a stone temple located in present-day Cambodia. Built sometime in the late 12th or early 13th century, it served as the official state temple of the Khmer empire and of the Mahayana Buddhist King Jayavarman VII. Originally called “Jayagiri” (“Victory Mountain”), it was later renamed to Banyan Temple when the French occupied Cambodia due to the religious significant of the Banyan Tree in Buddhist imagery (the Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment under such a tree). But when local Khmer began renovating the temple, they mispronounced it as Bayon. The name has since stuck.
The temple is famous for several reasons, one being its tall, curling towers, the other being the shear amount of bas-reliefs carved into practically every single surface.
Depending on where you are in the temple, the carvings will have different themes. For example, the outer walls of the outer gallery all depict historical events and everyday life in the Khmer Empire. Most of the former include troop maneuvers and set-piece battles, whereas the latter tended to include a combination of performers (musicians, acrobats, athletes) and ascetic monks sitting alone in forests.
The inner gallery, however, is much different. Raised above ground level, each section is decorated with scenes from Hindu mythology and includes figures such as Siva, Vishnu, and Brahma. Another section tells the somewhat obscure story of The Leper King, a man who contracted leprosy from the venom of a serpent he had killed with his bare hands. Less obscure stories are also included too, but, all told, there is still no sense of why some stories are depicted over others, and their relationship to one another in the temple itself.
But perhaps most noticeable, above all else, are the 216 stone faces carved into dozens of the temple’s pillars, smiling serenely.
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I hear that watermelons are plentiful in the region of Mandalay. Chinese soldiers like watermelons. See to it that each company gets a watermelon each day.
Chiang Kai-Shek (via biscuitsteamusic)
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Nothing matters so much as awakening our own people.
Oswald Mosley (via byzantinesambo)
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