query: who put the first brick of golden temple

pos: Mian Mir According to Sikh tradition, the Sikh guru Guru Arjan Dev Ji met Mian Mir during their stay in Lahore. This tradition does not appear in the early Sikh literature, and is first mentioned in the 18th and 19th century chronicles. However, it may be possible that this tradition is historically true, and may have been suppressed during the earlier period because of Sikhs' conflicts with the Muslim Mughals and Afghans. According to "Tawarikh-i-Punjab" (1848), written by Ghulam Muhayy-ud-Din alias Bute Shah, Mian Mir laid the foundation of the Sikh shrine Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple), at the request of Guru Arjan

neg: Shwegugyi Temple Pali. According to its inscription, the temple was completed in seven months. Shwegugyi Temple Shwegugyi Temple (, ; literally "Great Golden Cave") is a Buddhist temple in Bagan, an ancient city located in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar. From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Pagan Kingdom, the first kingdom that unified the regions that would later constitute modern Myanmar. The temple was built during the reign of King Alaungsithu in 1131. The temple itself is built on an expansive brick foundation 3 metres (13 ft) tall. The temple is known for its arched

neg: Shwegugyi Temple Shwegugyi Temple Shwegugyi Temple (, ; literally "Great Golden Cave") is a Buddhist temple in Bagan, an ancient city located in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar. From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Pagan Kingdom, the first kingdom that unified the regions that would later constitute modern Myanmar. The temple was built during the reign of King Alaungsithu in 1131. The temple itself is built on an expansive brick foundation 3 metres (13 ft) tall. The temple is known for its arched windows, and its history, which is inscribed in two stone slabs in

neg: Tholing Monastery complex has many rectangular buildings. It is a walled complex facing east. Built of mud bricks, the style became the forerunner for similar temples built in the kingdom. Before the Cultural Revolution the monastery had six chapels. There are portrait paintings of Tsong Khappa, Sakya Panchen and many Buddhist monks dated to 15th and 16th centuries. The most prominent among the extant temples, the Yeshe-Ö Temple (also "Gyatsa" temple, or the golden house), is built of mud-brick with red mud-brick towers. Colourful chortens are outside at each corner of this temple. Once a Vairochana image was deified here. The temple

neg: Joymoti Konwari also built the Fakuwa Dol in 1703–04, a pyramid-shaped temple constructed before the Rangnath (Shiva) Temple on the banks of the Joysagar Tank. It is said that Rudra Singha, once again to perpetuate the memory of his mother Soti Joymoti, constructed the temple and placed a golden idol of her within it. It was actually a maidan (grave) of Joymoti. The circumference of the Dol was about , and its height from base to top was . There were eight brick pillars around the temple. The temple and the pillars are among some of the Ahom ruins that remain in

neg: Red Brick Brewing Company extensive refurbishing, the mill was put to work readying the grain for brewing. The name "Red Brick Ale" was given to the brewery's flagship beer. One suggested (but ultimately discarded) name for the first beer was "John J. Bips Ale", named after a long-term brewmaster at the historic Atlantic Brewery. Atlanta Brewing Company produced 4,000 barrels of beer in 1994, the first year of production. To maintain this initial demand, the brewery brewed once or twice a day. Peachtree Pale Ale, Spring Brew, Summer Brew, Winter Brew, Golden Lager, and Kelly's Light were added to the line-up in the early

neg: Buddhist art 4th century. This temple is some plastered brick stupas. However, Buddhist art in Indonesia reach the golden era during the Sailendra dynasty rule in Java. The bas-reliefs and statues of Boddhisatva, Tara, and Kinnara found in Kalasan, Sewu, Sari, and Plaosan temple is very graceful with serene expression, While Mendut temple near Borobudur, houses the giant statue of Vairocana, Avalokitesvara, and Vajrapani. In Sumatra Sri Vijaya probably built the temple of Muara Takus, and Muaro Jambi. The most beautiful example of classical Javanese Buddhist art is the serene and delicate statue of Prajnaparamita (the collection of National Museum Jakarta) the

neg: Golden Temple Park Golden Temple Park The Golden Temple Park, or Jindian Park (), is a Taoist bronze-tiled temple in Yunnan, China and has been preserved almost completely since it was first built. It is located on the Mingfeng Mountains, seven kilometres to the east of Kunming city, there is a fine building made of bronze. It is commonly known as "Jindian" (the "Golden Temple"). The Golden Temple was first built in 1602 during the Ming dynasty. Yunnan was ordered to send the bronze ore from Dongchuan to central China to make coins. But a war blocked the road. The governor of Yunnan,

neg: Hwangnyongsa legend concerns the giant golden Buddha statue that the temple possessed. It was cast in the reign of King Jinheung as the temple centerpiece. The legend states that the gold for the statue came from King Ashoka of India. Ashoka had apparently attempted to cast a golden triad but failed. He then put the gold in a boat along with scale models of Bodhisattvas. Each country that received the boat was equally unable to cast the statues, and not until the boat had arrived in Silla could a statue be cast. Only the massive foundation stones of the temple remain

neg: Wannian Temple (Mount Emei) of Taiping Xingguo period of the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127). Sitting on the lotus throne, Samantabhadra wears a golden crown on the head and holds a "Ruyi", his mount is also standing on four lotus platforms. Behind the Beanless Brick Hall is the Xingyuan Hall () housing three national treasures: the Wanli Golden Seal (), tooth relic of the Buddha () and palm leaf manuscript (). The Wanli Golden Seal was cast in 160 and presented by Empress Cixiaoxian. According to the "Annals of Mount Emei" (), the palm leaf manuscript was presented by the King of Myanmar in the

neg: Vedal சிவனே போற்றி என் நாட்டவர்க்கும் இறைவா போற்றி.. The Vedal Shivan Koil is believed to have been built during the era of Raja Raja Chola I, the emperor who built the famous Tanjore Brahadeeswarar Temple. Little care is being taken by the villagers or the Government to preserve this architecturally excellent temple. A huge crack is running through the middle of the vimana and the backside wall of the temple. The Cholas reconstructed a lot of brick temples into granite temples. Only few brick temples are found today in Tamil Nadu state of South India. Especially, there is hardly any brick temple

neg: Miami Hurricanes football loss to South Florida. Interim head coach Jeff Stoutland, who was offensive line coach under Shannon, led the team into its 2010 Sun Bowl matchup versus Notre Dame; the Hurricanes lost the New Year's Eve game 33–17. On December 13, 2010, it was announced that athletics director Kirby Hocutt hired Temple head coach Al Golden as the program's 23rd head coach. Golden was regarded as an up-and-coming coach who had turned around an abysmal Temple football program. Shortly after announcing Golden's hiring, Miami signed Golden to a five-year contract. In 2011, Golden's first season, the Hurricanes posted a 6–6 record.

neg: Golden Temple Park was cast in 1424 during the reign of the Yongle Emperor in the Ming dynasty. It used to hang in Xuanhua Mansion in Kunming to announce the time. When Kunming expanded however, it was moved to the Golden Temple. In recent years, the Temple has been expanded several times when the "Parrot Garden", the "Camellia Garden", and the "Orchid Garden" were added. Golden Temple Park The Golden Temple Park, or Jindian Park (), is a Taoist bronze-tiled temple in Yunnan, China and has been preserved almost completely since it was first built. It is located on the Mingfeng Mountains, seven

neg: Xiangji Temple (Zhejiang) heritages by the Hangzhou Municipal Government. In 1968, during the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards had attacked the temple, and the Eastern Pagoda was demolished. With the support of the local government, a modern restoration of the entire temple complex was carried out in 2009. The nine story and octagonal-based Chinese pagoda is made of brick and stone. The brick base of the pagoda is shaped as a sumeru pedestal. Xiangji Temple (Zhejiang) Xiangji Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Gongshu District of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. The temple was first construction as "Xingfu Temple" () in 978 and

neg: Iraca cases where the election was indecisive, the "tundama" of Tundama would intervene. The "iraca" of Sugamuxi lived in the Sun Temple, the most important temple of the Muisca, built to worship the Muisca Sun god Sué, in Sugamuxi, decorated inside with golden figures; "tunjos" and golden plates outside. The Sun Temple was destroyed by fire from the torches of soldiers in the army of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, the conquistador who made first contact with the Muisca in September 1537 in search of El Dorado. From the ages before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca little is known and much

neg: Madhyapur Thimi temple stands in the brick-paved rectangular courtyard with rest houses around it. There is a temple of lord Bhairab and some small shrines of different gods and goddess spread around the courtyard. The legends regarding the temple of goddess Balkumari say that the merchants from ancient Thimi used to go to Lubhu for trading. One of them established a relationship with the princess of Lubhu. Soon the princess became pregnant. The princess asked the merchant to take her with him. The clever merchant put forward a condition that he would take her with him only if she agrees to bring

neg: South Turkmenistan Complex Archaeological Expedition plate with an image of cross and half-moon, a moulded clay wolf, as well as a golden head of a bull with a turquoise sickle inlaid in the forehead". Excavations revealed bone and copper artifacts of the fifth millennium BC (Neolithic period), female figurines painted with ornaments and necklaces of the fourth million BC, brick walls of thickness with brick kilns and a hearth in the middle of the house dated to early third millennium, and small temple buildings and rectangular hearths of Namazga V type of the middle third millennium. In the period from late third millennium to early

neg: Bhitargaon garbhagriha. The walls are decorated with terracotta panels depicting aquatic monsters, Shiva and Vishnu etc. When Cunningham first visited the site, the remains of the porch and of the ardhamandapa were still visible, which later collapsed. The construction material is bricks and terracotta. The brick size is 18"*9"*3" and the other salient features are following: Bhitargaon Bhitargaon is a town in Kanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India, known for its ancient Hindu temple, the largest Indian brick temple to survive from the time of the Gupta Empire. The Bhitargaon Temple is a terraced brick building fronted with a terracotta panel. Built

neg: Temple of Friendship Temple of Apollo in the Amalthea Garden. The first work of architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, the Temple of Apollo was built in 1735 in the flower and vegetable garden created by Crown Prince Frederick (later Frederick II) in the town Neuruppin in Brandenburg, where he resided from 1732 to 1735 as the commander of a regiment stationed there. The Temple of Apollo was an open, round temple, although in 1791 it was enclosed by brick walls between its columns. In August 1735, Fredrick wrote to his sister Wilhelmine, who at that time was already married and living in Bayreuth:

neg: Temple (LDS Church) the second floor of Joseph Smith's Red Brick Store in Nauvoo, Illinois, and the Nauvoo Temple. Kirtland ordinances included washings and anointings (differing in many ways from the modern portion) and the washing of the feet ordinance. For nearly four years, beginning in 1842, Smith's Red Brick Store functioned as a de facto temple—the site of the first washings, anointings, endowments, and sealings. In contrast, the grand edifice known as the Nauvoo Temple was in operation for only two months before the Latter Day Saints left Illinois for the West. Preparations to initiate the first members of Smith's Quorum of

neg: Gurcharan Singh Tohra Golden temple complex from militants, Tohra was the President of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. The army operation that happened between 4-6 June 1984. Several Akali Dal leaders were stuck in the temple complex during the operation. Gurcharan Singh Tohra was among the Sikh leaders who were rescued by Army from within the Golden Temple. They could only be evacuated in an Armoured personnel carrier (APC) due to fear of firing from the sikh extremists. When the Army officers met him, the first question he wanted to know was if Bhindranwale was dead or alive? Tohra's differences with then chief

neg: Sri Mahamariamman Temple, Penang The 0.9m-tall golden vel at Queen Street Maha Mariamman Temple. This depicts the story goes that the vel was created by Lord Shiva’s consort Parasakthi who is also Lord Murugan’s mother. Parasakthi appeared in 18 forms before merging into a single indestructible vel which was handed to Lord Murugan during the Poosa natchathiram on Pournami Day (full moon) in the month of Thai (January to February). After receiving a blessing from the Lord’s mother, the vel will be sent back to Lord Murugan on the golden chariot on Thaipusam eve. The golden chariot successfully completed its first trial run for

neg: Kehar Singh operations that took place in India in the late 1980s, to flush out remaining Sikh activists from the Golden Temple. 'Black Cat' commandos of the National Security Guards were used in this operation. Similar to Operation Blue Star, these attacks were towards Khalistani militants who were using the Golden Temple in as a base. The first Operation Black Thunder took place on 30 April 1986. The second Operation Black Thunder began on 9 May 1988. The operation was headed by Kanwar Pal Singh Gill, who was the DGP of Punjab Police. In 2003, a Bhog ceremony was held at Akal

neg: Nayagarh The city is regarded as the golden merge of Hari (Vishnu) and Hara (Shiva). "Bolbam" is a famous traditional culture here for which people across different parts of odisha visits the temple from their own towns by walking on bare foot and carrying a stick over their shoulder holding 2 pots of water from their town and finally put in the Ladukeshwar temple on the occasion of shivaratri. The history of Ladukeshwar temple says that a cowherd used to take couple of cows to the Bhandar mountain situated on top of Ladukeshwar temple now and one day he noticed that

neg: Orthodox Churches of Rostov-on-Don area lacked orthodox churches. There would be a Holy Kazakh Temple which was destroyed 1931. Initially, people constructed a so-called meeting house, and in 2004 they began to deal with the construction of a stone church. It took 3.5 years to complete and decorate it. On November 9, 2008 the Rostov and Novocherkassk archbishop Panteleimon (Dolganov) consecrated the church. Nowadays it is a modern building with heating. The temple is made of brick and has golden domes, the belfry includes 9 bells. Services are held everyday, and the church organizes charity dinners as well. Dmitry Sobolevsky is the abbot of

neg: Archaeology of Ayodhya prose, and is engraved in the chaste and classical Nagari script of the eleventh-twelfth century AD. It was evidently put up on the wall of the temple, the construction of which is recorded in the text inscribed on it. Line 15 of this inscription, for example, clearly tells us that a beautiful temple of Vishnu-Hari, built with heaps of stone ("sila-samhati-grahais") and beautified with a golden spire ("hiranya-kalasa-srisundaram") unparalleled by any other temple built by earlier kings ("purvvair-apy-akrtam krtam nrpatibhir") was constructed. This wonderful temple ("aty-adbhutam") was built in the temple-city ("vibudh-alaayni") of Ayodhya situated in the "Saketamandala" (district, line

neg: Golden Temple Mail Golden Temple Mail The 12903/12904 Golden Temple Mail is a Superfast express train belonging to Indian Railways that runs daily between Mumbai Central and Amritsar in Punjab. The train ran as the Frontier Mail between 1928 and 1996, ferrying passengers arriving by Steamer from Europe directly from Ballard Pier in Bombay to the city of Peshawar on India's North-West Frontier before the Partition of India. It operates as train number 12903 from Mumbai Central to Amritsar Junction and as train number 12904 in the reverse direction. The 12903/04 Golden Temple Mail has 1 AC First Cum AC 2 Tier, 2

neg: 1979 Garden State Bowl Top 20. Temple was ranked 17th in both polls, the first time the Temple football team was nationally ranked in the final wire service polls. Cal wound up 6–6 and took its worst setback after suffering its five regular season defeats by a total of 24 points. 1979 Garden State Bowl The 1979 Garden State Bowl, played on December 15, 1979, was the second edition of the Garden State Bowl. The game featured the California Golden Bears, who played in their first bowl since the 1959 Rose Bowl, and the Temple Owls, who made their first bowl appearance since the

neg: Middle Temple Brick Court to the west, so called because it is said to consist of the first brick buildings to be built in the Temple, in the reign of Elizabeth I. Sir William Blackstone worked here before becoming the first professor to lecture in law at Oxford University. The poet and playwright Oliver Goldsmith also lived here from 1765 (having earlier resided in Garden Court), and is buried in the Temple Church. Blackstone, living on the floor below Goldsmith's chambers, complained about the noise made by Goldsmith's raucous parties, which were attended by many celebrities of the time, including Samuel Johnson.

neg: Temple Emanuel (Beverly Hills, California) Temple Emanuel (Beverly Hills, California) Temple Emanuel is a Reform synagogue in Beverly Hills, California. It is located at 8844 Burton Way in Beverly Hills, California. The synagogue was founded in 1938. The first rabbi, Ernest Trattner, served until 1947, when he left amid dissension among the congregation, culminating in litigation. The current building, completed in 1953, was the first religious building designed by architect Sidney Eisenshtat, who went on to become a noted designer of synagogues and Jewish academic buildings. Built with red brick and concrete, it is considered an important example of modernist synagogue architecture. Inside, the Belle

neg: Bhakti Mandir Mangarh inaugurated in November 2005. This is the first temple in the world to stand on granite pillars. The architectural drawings were prepared by architects from Ahmadabad, who are renowned in Indian in the field of temple construction. This temple is 105 feet tall from the ground to the golden flag on the top of the temple.There are a total of three doors on three sides of the temple. Like the ground floor of the main Temple, the top floor also has a round verandah and shrine.The ceiling is constructed above the second level.This temple is built of pink stone on

neg: Harchand Singh Longowal who were rescued by Army from within the Golden Temple. They could only be evacuated in an Armoured personnel carrier (APC) due to fear of firing from the sikh extremists. Later on, Longowal was put under detention. Finally, in March 1985, the leadership of the Akali party began to be released from prison under orders from the new prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. With a view to improving the situation and creating the conditions for a negotiated settlement of Sikh demands, the prime minister's confidante, Arjun Singh who was posted as the Governor of the state, also relaxed the censorship on

neg: 2006 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team had two interceptions and no touchdowns. Dominic Jones did manage to score on a kick-off return. California is currently 8–3. "All-time record against Temple: 1–0–0" The Golden Gophers had their highest scoring game since September 2003, as they dominated the Temple Owls. The Golden Gophers were led by Bryan Cupito, who had 8 completions on 10 attempts, with 148 yards passing and 4 touchdowns. Additionally, the Gopher rushing attack combined for 284 yards rushing. Temple only twice advanced into Minnesota's side of the field. Additionally, the starting position of the Owls was 29 yards worse than the Golden Gophers. The

neg: Temple Sinai (Sumter, South Carolina) Temple Sinai (Sumter, South Carolina) Temple Sinai is an historic Reform synagogue located at 11 Church Street on the corner of West Hampton Avenue, in Sumter, South Carolina, United States. Built in 1912 of brick in the Moorish Revival style, Temple Sinai was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 21, 1999. It is also known as Congregation Sinai, whose official name is the Sumter Society of Israelites. The first Jewish settlers in Sumter were Sephardi who came from Charleston in 1815. Congregation Sinai, whose official name is the Sumter Society of Israelites, was formed in April,

neg: Ancient Greek temple perhaps the first true Archaic temple with its monumental size, sturdy colonnade and tile roof set the Isthmian temple apart from contemporary buildings The first temples were mostly mud, brick, and marble structures on stone foundations. The columns and superstructure (entablature) were wooden, door openings and antae were protected with wooden planks. The mud brick walls were often reinforced by wooden posts, in a type of half-timbered technique. The elements of this simple and clearly structured wooden architecture produced all the important design principles that were to determine the development of Greek temples for centuries. Near the end of the

neg: Golden Temple a raised canopy on the "parkarma" (circumambulation marble path around the pool). The name, state W. Owen Cole and other scholars, reflects the belief that visiting this temple is equivalent to 68 Hindu pilgrimage sites in the Indian subcontinent, or that a Tirath to the Golden Temple has the efficacy of all 68 Tiraths combined. The completion of the first version of the Golden Temple was a major milestone for Sikhism, states Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair, because it provided a central pilgrimage place and a rallying point for the Sikh community, set within a hub of trade and activity. The growing

neg: Murugan Temple, Saluvankuppam that the 8th-century temple was constructed over the remains of an older brick temple. According to Thirumoorthy, the "garbhagriha" or "sanctum sanctorum" of the brick temple was filled with sand and covered with granite slabs upon which the newer temple was constructed. Sathyamurthy, Superintendent, ASI Chennai Circle, said that the brick temple could be dated to the Sangam period as the shrine faced north unlike modern temples which face either east or west. This proved conclusively that the temple was constructed before the 6th or 7th century AD when the "shilpa shastras", the canonical texts of temple architecture, were written.

neg: Ramesseum shrines. The entire complex was enclosed in mud brick walls which started at the gigantic southeast pylon. A cache of papyri and ostraca dating back to the third intermediate period (11th to 8th centuries BC) indicates that the temple was also the site of an important scribal school. The site was in use before Ramesses had the first stone put in place: beneath the hypostyle hall, modern archaeologists have found a shaft tomb from the Middle Kingdom, yielding a rich hoard of religious and funerary artifacts. Unlike the massive stone temples that Ramesses ordered carved from the face of the

neg: Henry B. Pullen Burry joined the Isis-Urania Temple, which was the first founded Golden Dawn temple (in 1888). Other temples were established elsewhere later. Each Golden Dawn member was required to choose a magical motto. Pullen Burry chose "Anima Pura Sit" ("Let the Soul Be Pure"). His wife Rose joined the order in 1894. Her motto was "Urge semper igitur" ("Always press forward"?). One of the most active members in London, he rose rapidly in the Isis-Urania Temple governing hierarchy, becoming its Sub-Cancellarius official in July, 1894, promoted to cancellarius November 1896. "Cancellarius" (Latin for "chancellor") of a Golden Dawn temple was its chief

neg: Ghirardelli Square Company was bought by the Golden Grain Macaroni Company which moved the headquarters off-site to San Leandro and put the square up for sale. San Franciscan William M. Roth and his mother, Lurline Matson Roth, bought the land in 1962 to prevent the square from being replaced with an apartment building. The Roths hired landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and the firm Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons to convert the square and its historic brick structures to an integrated restaurant and retail complex, the first major adaptive re-use project in the United States. It opened in 1964. In 1965, Benjamin Thompson and

neg: Murugan Temple, Saluvankuppam Murugan Temple, Saluvankuppam The Murugan Temple at Saluvankuppam, Tamil Nadu, is a shrine dedicated to the Tamil deity Murugan. Archaeologists believe that the shrine, unearthed in 2005, consists of two layers: a brick temple constructed during the Sangam period (the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD) and a granite Pallava temple dating from the 8th century AD and constructed on top of the brick shrine. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) team which conducted the excavation believe that brick temple could be the oldest of its kind to be discovered in Tamil Nadu. However, noted Indian archaeologist R.

neg: Falna Falna has an average literacy rate of 66%. Male literacy is 75.6%, and female literacy is 55.7%. In Falna, 12.85% of the population is under 6 years of age. Falna Jain golden temple is a temple built at Falna near the famous Jain temple Ranakpur (Rajasthan). It is the first Jain golden temple that has been built in the country by the Jain community of Falna in Rajasthan (near Ranakpur). The specialty of the temple is that about 100 kg. of gold was donated by the people of the Jain community in the local region for the adoration of temple

neg: Legend of the Dragon (TV series) Wi, the Guardian of the Shadow Rat, who had been imprisoned by one of the previous Golden Dragons for one thousand years. The two siblings concoct plans to conquer the modern world, and have their vengeance on all twelve guardians of yang; the Golden Dragon in particular. As they head to the Temple of the Shadow Wolf, the heroes get there first and encounter K-Lo, the Shadow Wolf Guardian who was one of Ling's allies during her dark times as the Shadow Dragon and who seems to have quite an interest in her, now that she has become a Golden

neg: Kulla (god) specialty was to govern the fashioning of bricks and supervise the building process from start to finish was in the Sumerian myth 'Enki and the World Order' from the first dynasty of Isin which recalls that Enki put Kulla in charge of the pickaxe and brick-mold. He was invoked when the laying of the foundation of buildings, and shooed-away upon their completion, lest his presence cause further construction to be required and other building work elsewhere to be neglected. In a ritual for the repair of a temple, the invocation is described: In Esarhaddon’s account of the laying of the

neg: The Golden Child The Golden Child The Golden Child is a 1986 American fantasy comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Eddie Murphy as Chandler Jarrell, who is informed that he is "The Chosen One" and is destined to save "The Golden Child", the savior of all humankind. The film was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures and received a total gross of $79,817,937 at the United States (US) box office. In a remote temple in Tibet, a young boy with mystical abilities – the Golden Child – receives badges of station and demonstrates his power to the monks of the temple

neg: Brahma Chellaney the Golden Temple, the holiest Sikh shrine. His exclusive coverage won him a prestigious journalism award—a Citation for Excellence in 1985 by the Overseas Press Club, New York. Mr. Chellaney later finished his PhD and entered academia. Before the storming of Golden Temple by Indian Army starting on 3 June 1984, a media blackout was enforced. Brahma Chellaney of the Associated Press was the only foreign reporter who managed to stay on in Amritsar. His first dispatch, front-paged by "The New York Times", The Times of London and The Guardian, reported a death toll about twice of what authorities had

neg: Pump Court Pump Court Pump Court, Temple, London was the first on the left in Middle Temple Lane from 6 Fleet Street, leading to Inner Temple Lane and Lamb's Buildings. Its name referred to the pump in the middle. In the year following 1 Car 1 (1625), brick buildings were erected in the Pump Court. In 1637 (13 Car 1), the rest of the brick buildings in the Pump Court were set up. Many famous figures have lived in Pump Court including William Blackstone, William Cowper, Henry Fielding, Lord Russell of Killowen and Viscount Alverstone, his successor as Lord Chief Justice of

neg: Golden Gate Hotel and Casino would soon have a third story added to the property, expected to be finished by September 1, 1906. In October 1906, construction was underway on the addition, which consisted of brick and measured 20 feet by 30 feet. The addition added a kitchen and four bedrooms. In 1907, Las Vegas' first telephone was installed at the Hotel Nevada, with the number 1. The hotel's casino operated until 1909, when gambling was banned in Nevada. The casino's blackjack and poker tables were subsequently put into storage. By March 1918, Miller was considering a large addition to the hotel that would consist

neg: Temple of Flame called Thula Doom. Most of the gameplay occurs inside the Temple of Flame, which is a dangerous monument full of traps,mazes and magical mayhem. Temple of Flame Temple of Flame is a gamebook by Dave Morris and Oliver Johnson from the Golden Dragon gamebook collection. The plot is about an adventurer called the Dragon Knight of Palados, who sets on a quest in a South American-like jungle country in order to discover the priceless golden idol statue of Katak, God of Flame, which is hidden in an abandoned pyramid temple deep in the wild. The path there is hazardous enough,

neg: Alma Downtown Historic District (Alma, Michigan) in the office of Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, and was constructed by the James I. Barnes Construction Company of Mount Pleasant, Michigan. It is a single-story brick building with limestone trim and a central stone staircase. The Masonic Temple was built in 1963 to house the Central National Bank of Alma on the first floor and the Masonic Temple on the second. It is a large square plan brick International Style building with a deeply recessed corner entryway. It is sited on a corner, and whitish brick piers separate both street facades into bays. Alma Downtown

neg: Kumbum Monastery pleasing scent. The four-storied golden-roofed temple built around the tree where Tsongkhapa is said to have been born is called "Golden Tree" (, metaphorically "wish-fulfilling tree") and is considered the holiest place at Kumbum. Two Catholic missionaries, Évariste Régis Huc and Joseph Gabet who arrived here in the 1840s when the tree was still living were fully prepared to dismiss "The Tree of Great Merit" as just another fanciful legend.Section of this tree are now preserved in a stupa in the Great Golden Temple. In the 1360s Tsongkhapa's mother, with the help of locals, had a small temple with a

neg: Golden Temple Park Chen Yongbing, and Mu Changzuo, the Duke of Guizhou Province, ordered that the bronze be used to build a temple in imitation of the Taihe Palace and the Golden Temple on Tianzhu Peak in the Wudang Mountains, Hubei province. The temple was later moved to the Jizu Mountains in western Yunnan. During the reign of the Kangxi Emperor (1662-1722) in the Qing dynasty, Wu Sangui, a military general who had defected from the Ming dynasty to the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and opened Shanhai Pass for them, rebuilt the temple, keeping the original Hubei design. The bronze used weighed over 200

neg: Kuldip Singh Brar including Sikhs, walked away. In fact, in the unit commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Mohammad Israr (whose ten guards later led the first unit into the temple premises), the Sikh Officer Second Lieutenant Jasbir Singh Raina, raised his hand, and said that he wished to be the first one to enter the Golden Temple to wipe out the militants who had defiled the holiest Sikh shrine. On the night of 5 June 1984, General Brar's troops stormed the temple premises. General Brar had six infantry battalions and a detachment of commandos under his command. Four of the six senior commanders of

neg: Enjō Enjō Told in an intricate flashback structure, "Enjo" dramatizes the psychological collapse of Goichi (Raizo Ichikawa), a young Buddhist acolyte from a dysfunctional family who arrives at a Kyoto temple - the Golden Pavilion - for further study. Goichi is haunted by two events - the discovery of his psychologically abusive mother's infidelity, and the effect of the revelation upon his father, who suddenly falls ill and dies shortly thereafter. Shy and idealistic - and hindered by a stuttering problem - Goichi arrives at the temple haunted by his dying father's sentiment that "the Golden Pavilion of the Shukaku Temple

neg: Roman Catholic Diocese of Alaminos construction of the divine temple. His successor Father Jose Tornos, who was proficient in Pangasinense, inaugurated it in 1857. This Recollect minister who took over the parochial administration in 1849 remained in Alaminos for almost thirty years and endowed the church with the best ornaments. Father Tornos died in 1878 and was buried in the future cathedral. At the church pavement one can view his tombstone in Spanish. Father Patricio Marcellan writes in 1879: "The present church and parochial house are made of brick manufactured in the same town. The first oven for brick-making making was built under the supervision

neg: Operation Black Thunder the reservoir of the temple that provided rooms and offices that were taken over by the militants. The temple complex also provided logistical advantage to the militants with easy access to food, water and communication lines. Further the sanctity of the Golden temple provided protection from arrests by the security forces who preferred not to enter the Temple premises so as not to hurt the religious sentiments of the Sikhs. Even the spies were not being sent due to the fear of them being captured, tortured and killed inside. The first Operation Black Thunder took place on 30 April 1986.

neg: The Golden Temple (film) the title of the film, ‘The Golden Temple.’ First we see the stadium, a veritable temple of games and entertainment: we hear in one witness’s account, however, that it was built over radioactive waste. The second symbolic temple – this time, a shrine to consumerism – is Westfield Stratford City, one of the biggest shopping centres in Europe. It was constructed in such a way that all Olympic spectators had to pass through it to reach the stadium. The third symbolic temple is not, unlike the others, a real construction, but is instead represented by numerous religious communities in the

neg: Golden Dragon Museum Golden Dragon Museum The Golden Dragon Museum is situated in the city of Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. The museum is dedicated to the history and culture of the Chinese people who immigrated to the region. Built on the historical site of one of Bendigo's Chinatowns, the museum's precinct also includes Chinese Gardens and a temple to Kuan Yin. Through the museum accreditation program, it was the first accredited museum in Victoria. The Golden Dragon Museum opened in 1991. The current site for the museum is the area of one of Bendigo's Chinatowns. The Bridge St Chinatown was the centre for Chinese

neg: Golden Pagoda, Namsai Golden Pagoda, Namsai The Golden Pagoda of Namsai, also known as Kongmu Kham in the Khamti language is a Burmese style Buddhist temple that was opened in 2010. It is located on a 20 hectare complex in Namsai District of Arunachal Pradesh. A sum of 3 crore was spent by Arunachal politician Chowna Mein, who was the local MLA in building the pagoda in a plot provided by the state government. The World Tripiṭaka Foundation is currently developing Kongmu Kham as the first international Tripiṭaka centre in India. The Kathina festival is the largest festival celebrated at the Golden Pagoda.

neg: Kalayat Ancient Bricks Temple Complex Kalayat Ancient Bricks Temple Complex The Kalayat Ancient Brick Temple Complex, also called Kapil Muni Tirth, the oldest surviving brick temple north of Delhi, is located in Kalayat town in Kaithal district of the state of Haryana, India. It comprises the several Hindu temples, including two ancient temples dating from the 8th century. This temple constitutes an important point in the series of 48 kos parikrama of Kurukshetra. The name Kalayat appears to be derived from "Kapilayatana", which translates to the "home of sage Kapila". According to local legends, in ancient times, five brick temples were located beside the holy

neg: Vithoba Temple, Pandharpur or God who stood upon a brick, and a temple came up there. Along with Vithoba, Rukmini (Mother Rukmini, the consort of Krishna) is also worshipped here. An interesting tale is that of the temple's first step called “Namdev Chi Payari” (step of Namdev). The child and future saint, Namdev was an ardent devotee of Vithoba. One day his mother asks him to complete the ritual of “naivedya” (any food made in the house is first offered to God, the ritual comprises placing the offering plate before the deity and sprinkling water around the plate and with a prayer to

neg: Jaguar (Archie Comics) jaguar into a ruined temple and found a series of cave drawings depicting the ancient Incas battling the same monster, as well as a mystical "nucleon energy belt". The round golden buckle of the belt had the engraved image of a winged Jaguar on the front and on the back an inscription which read: "He who loves the animal kingdom may wear this belt and be transformed into a human Jaguar". Hardy put on the belt and was instantly transformed. As The Jaguar, he possesses, in addition to the expected feline abilities, all the powers of the animal kingdom, only

neg: William Parkhurst Winans with golden stars. But we go farther into the shadowy recesses of the Temple no windows to light, a small opening into each of the three most sacred rooms. This diary entry shows his flair for the dramatic, but also highlights his fascination with history and other cultures. The details are useful for those who wish to learn about the time period in which he lived, because he wrote about the little things that would seem too insignificant to be put in an official record, but that historians later on would still find interesting. In addition to his personal writings,

neg: The Golden Temple (film) in the film. He criticises the militarisation of the city of London under the pretext of the Olympic Games, an argument which he explores further in his book ‘Ghost Milk.’ The film was produced by Caucaso Factory, in collaboration with Aplysia, Dupleix and Nordeste. The media consultancy, distribution and presentation of the film was undertaken by ESNA European Higher Education News, based in Berlin. The Golden Temple (film) The Golden Temple is a 2012 documentary film directed by Enrico Masi and set in East London during preparations for the 2012 Olympic Games. Using first-hand testimonies of people living in the

neg: The Golden Temple (film) The Golden Temple (film) The Golden Temple is a 2012 documentary film directed by Enrico Masi and set in East London during preparations for the 2012 Olympic Games. Using first-hand testimonies of people living in the area at the time, the film documents the changes in the lives of these people in relation to the urban regeneration promised by the large-scale sporting event. In the years leading up to the 2012 Olympics, East London, the eventual site of the Olympic park, is transformed into a construction site. Indeed, one of the factors that was instrumental in leading the Olympic committee

neg: Ajmer Jain temple Rishabhdev attained Salvation or Nirvana, his eldest son Bharat, the first Chakravartin(emperor of Bharat Kshetra), constructed seventy two magnificent golden temples. Ajmer Jain temple The Ajmer Jain temple, also known as Soniji Ki Nasiyan, is an architecturally rich Jain temple. It was built in the late nineteenth century. The main chamber, known as the Swarna Nagari "City of Gold", has several gold-plated wooden figures, depicting several figures in the Jain religion. This golden chamber of the temple uses 1000 kg of gold to carve out depiction of Ayodhya. Kurt Titze, in his book, "Jainism: A Pictorial Guide to the Religion

neg: 1979 Garden State Bowl 1979 Garden State Bowl The 1979 Garden State Bowl, played on December 15, 1979, was the second edition of the Garden State Bowl. The game featured the California Golden Bears, who played in their first bowl since the 1959 Rose Bowl, and the Temple Owls, who made their first bowl appearance since the 1935 Sugar Bowl. 55,493 tickets were sold but only 40,207 fans showed on a cold 29°-day in the Meadowlands to see the Owls beat the Golden Bears, 28–17. The game was nationally televised on the Mizlou Television Network. The Owls scored on their first three possessions and

neg: Khmer architecture impressive than the real brick tower of the Khmer, and the Cham won the contest. The only stone used by Angkorian builders was sandstone, obtained from the Kulen mountains. Since its obtainment was considerably more expensive than that of brick, sandstone only gradually came into use, and at first was used for particular elements such as door frames. The 10th-century temple of Ta Keo is the first Angkorian temple to be constructed more or less entirely from Sandstone. Angkorian builders used laterite, a clay that is soft when taken from the ground but that hardens when exposed to the sun,

neg: Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn or "First Order." An "Inner Order" was established and became active in 1892. The Inner Order consisted of members known as "adepts," who had completed the entire course of study for the Outer Order. This group of adepts eventually became known as the Second Order. Eventually, the Osiris temple in Weston-super-Mare, the Horus temple in Bradford (both in 1888), and the Amen-Ra temple in Edinburgh (1893) were founded. In 1893 Mathers founded the Ahathoor temple in Paris. In 1891, Westcott's alleged correspondence with Anna Sprengel suddenly ceased. He claimed to have received word from Germany that she was either dead

neg: Luttrell's Tower Luttrell's Tower Luttrell's Tower is a three-storey stuccoed yellow brick folly south of Southampton, Hampshire, England, near the village of Calshot. It has a six-storey circular stair turret extending above the rest. It stands on the shore of the Solent, close to the grounds of Eaglehurst House. It is owned by the Landmark Trust. The tower was built circa 1780 for Temple Simon Luttrell by Thomas Sandby, who was a founder member and first Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy. Temple Luttrell was a Member of Parliament who was allegedly involved in smuggling on the south coast (though no

neg: Temple of Flame Temple of Flame Temple of Flame is a gamebook by Dave Morris and Oliver Johnson from the Golden Dragon gamebook collection. The plot is about an adventurer called the Dragon Knight of Palados, who sets on a quest in a South American-like jungle country in order to discover the priceless golden idol statue of Katak, God of Flame, which is hidden in an abandoned pyramid temple deep in the wild. The path there is hazardous enough, with hostile natives, traps, and quicksand to kill unwary travellers, but the Dragon Knight gets a sidekick in the form of a small spider

neg: Terrorism in India of an army assault. Indira Gandhi, India's then prime minister, ordered the military to storm the temple, who eventually had to use tanks. After a 74-hour firefight, the army successfully took control of the temple. In doing so, it damaged some portions of the Akal Takht, the Sikh Reference Library, and the Golden Temple itself. According to Indian government sources, 83 army personnel were killed and 249 were injured. Militant casualties were 493 killed and 86 injured. During the same year, the assassination of Indira Gandhi by two Sikh bodyguards, believed to be driven by the Golden Temple affair, resulted

neg: Antiochus XI Epiphanes king Antiochus Philadelphus, i.e. Antiochus XI, built a temple for Apollo and Artemis in Daphne, and set up two golden statues representing the gods, in addition to conferring the right of asylum to anyone who took refuge in the temple; this statement can not be correct since the temple was attested during the time of Antiochus III (reigned 222–187 BC). However, Glanville Downey, observing Malalas' writing style, suggested that by "building", Malalas meant renovating or restoring, which indicates that a predecessor of Antiochus XI might have desecrated the temple and melted the golden statues. Edward Theodore Newell assigned Antiochus XI

neg: Bhitargaon Bhitargaon Bhitargaon is a town in Kanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India, known for its ancient Hindu temple, the largest Indian brick temple to survive from the time of the Gupta Empire. The Bhitargaon Temple is a terraced brick building fronted with a terracotta panel. Built in the 5th century during the Gupta period, it is the oldest remaining brick/terracotta Hindu shrine with a roof and a high Shikhara, though its upper chamber did sustain some damage in the 18th century. The temple is built on a square plan with double-recessed corners and faces east. There tall pyramidal spire over the

neg: London Dreams the lead roles. Salman Khan had asked the original director Raj Kumar Santoshi to replace Chopra with his then girlfriend Katrina Kaif. Priyanka had already given her dates to the film and the first schedule has been completed at the Golden temple in Amritsar. According to the media “Salman has been telling Rajji for a long time now that he wants Katrina and not Priyanka. However this has put Rajji in a dilemma as Priyanka has already given dates for the film.” Salman even went on to force Priyanka to opt out of the film. Asin was finally selected as

neg: Yellow Pearl (band) players Mark Beumers. The band's biggest hits were "For you and Me" (recorded and produced by Han Nuijten ) and "See You Again". "For you and Me" was an instant radio hit and was put on rotation on several playlists including 3FM. The song was featured on the CD Hitzone 27 which received the golden status in November 2004. "See you Again" was a top 10 hit in the Single Top 100. The band is one of the few acts that has performed twice in a sold out Paradiso (Amsterdam) (Dutch rock temple) within a 6 months period. First they

neg: Nellaiappar Temple of the important festivals here. Arudra Darisanam attracts huge crowds here. The temple chariot is a massive one, second supposedly only to Tiruvarur. The Bhrammotsavam here lasts for an extended period of time during the Tamil month of Aani (15 June – 15 July). Also, a golden temple car (First Inaugural run of Nellaiappar Temple Golden Car is 2 November 2009) will run during important festivals like Thirukalyanam, Kaarthigai, Aaruthra Festival etc. During Thaipoosam festival in Thai, Lord Shiva and Parvathy are taken to the banks of Thamirabarani river in Tirunelveli junction called "Thaipoosa mandapam". Special rituals are undertaken there

neg: Barnes–Peery House Barnes–Peery House The Barnes–Peery House, known commonly as the Barnes Mansion, is one of the oldest private homes of Jefferson County, Colorado, USA. It was built in 1865 by David Barnes, the first flour miller in Jefferson County, who had just moved his flouring mill (a business still operating today as the Golden Mill) to Golden after establishing it on Bear Creek to the south the year before. The Barnes home was the first major brick house in Jefferson County, and is designed in Italianate style, featuring rows of stone arched windows. A rear carriage house was built in 1871.

neg: Wannian Temple (Mount Emei) Wannian Temple (Mount Emei) Wannian Temple () is a Buddhist temple located at the foot of Camel Mountain Range of Mount Emei, in Emeishan City, Sichuan, China. It is one of the six earliest Buddhist temples on Mount Emei. The temple is situated at the foot of Camel Mountain Range, facing the Daping Temple (), Niuxin Temple (), Shisun Summit () and Bomeng Summit () in the front. Wannian Temple is known not only for the bronze statue of Samantabhadra, but also for the Beamless Brick Hall. Wannian Temple was first established by Huichi () in the East Jin dynasty

neg: Nair temple east of Gaya. Nair temple The Nair temple is a ruined pillared temple at the location of Nair, on the road between Patna and Gaya, west of Dharawat. It is about 20 miles from Gaya. The temple consists of three rows of monolithic pillars, ten pillars in each row. In the front of the temple there is a further row of four pillars. According to Thomas Fraser Peppé, who photographed it in 1870: "The temple behind consists of brick and mud cement, but very little of it is now standing; the superstructure is entirely gone, and none of the temples

neg: Nair temple Nair temple The Nair temple is a ruined pillared temple at the location of Nair, on the road between Patna and Gaya, west of Dharawat. It is about 20 miles from Gaya. The temple consists of three rows of monolithic pillars, ten pillars in each row. In the front of the temple there is a further row of four pillars. According to Thomas Fraser Peppé, who photographed it in 1870: "The temple behind consists of brick and mud cement, but very little of it is now standing; the superstructure is entirely gone, and none of the temples of this form

neg: Gurmit Singh Aulakh the United States. All that changed when in June 1984 the Indian Army launched a military operation in Sikhism's holiest shrine, the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib) in Amritsar. The objective was to destroy the Sikh militants that were demanding more political autonomy for Punjab and the Sikhs and had turned portions of the temple complex into fortified positions in expectations of an attack. Large scale mayhem resulted and Indira Gandhi also ordered the army to storm tens of other gurdwaras throughout Punjab. All of Punjab was put under martial law and all communications were cut off. Thousands of Sikhs were

neg: Htukkanthein Temple Buddha image inside the central vault. At the west side of the temple is a small meditation chamber, accessible only via the main temple. The temple is constructed of brick and stone. The Htukkanthein has three chambers, rotating clockwise inwards. The entire temple has a total of 180 Buddha images in niches (179 smaller ones along the corridors, and 1 at the central vaulted chamber). On each side of the niches are sculpted male and a female figures said to represent the donors who made the construction of the temple possible. Htukkanthein Temple Htukkanthein (, pronounced 'Htoke-kan-thein' in Arakanese) is

neg: Golden Temple Mail Saharanpur, Ambala Cantonment Junction, Ludhiana Junction to Amritsar Junction 12903 Golden Temple Mail leaves Mumbai Central every day at 21:30 hrs IST and reaches the Amritsar Junction at 05:45 hrs IST the third day. On return, the 12904 Golden Temple Mail leaves Amritsar Junction every day at 21:25 hrs IST and reaches Mumbai Central at 05:20 hrs IST the third day. Golden Temple Mail The 12903/12904 Golden Temple Mail is a Superfast express train belonging to Indian Railways that runs daily between Mumbai Central and Amritsar in Punjab. The train ran as the Frontier Mail between 1928 and 1996, ferrying

neg: Red Basilica a small mosque. The temple's date of construction is not recorded, but from the style of the sculptures and the building techniques a date in the first half of the second century AD has been proposed. Its use of red brick on a massive scale, unique in Asia Minor but relatively common in Italy at the time, indicates that the architect was not local. The immense size and lavish construction of the complex points to an extremely wealthy patron who sent a Roman architect and brick masons to Pergamon to build the temple. The most likely candidate is the emperor

neg: Lingfeng Temple Lingfeng Temple Lingfeng Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Taihuai Town of Wutai County, Xinzhou, Shanxi, China. The Lingfeng temple was first established in the Tang dynasty (618-907), rebuilt in the Chenghua period (1447-1487) of Ming dynasty (1368-1644), the modern temple was founded in 1998. In 1975, Lingfeng Temple was demolished due to the temple had fallen into a great state of disrepair. A paifang built of white marble in the front of the temple. A stupa is the oldest architecture in the temple. It is about high and built of brick held together with clay mortar. The

neg: First Presbyterian Church of Golden and Unger House and brick buttresses, for the congregation founded in 1870 by the famed circuit riding minister Sheldon Jackson. The church was built on land donated by William A.H. Loveland. In 1898 the growing congregation hired prominent area architect James H. Gow to redesign and add onto the building, which transformed it into a roughly cross-shaped chapel with northeast corner bell tower, with smooth new facing brick enabling the whole to match. The place continued serving as the First Presbyterian Church until the congregation outgrew this space and moved to south Golden in 1958. The fledgling Jefferson Unitarian Church, led by C.

neg: Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn temple was to consist of the five grades outlined in the manuscripts. In 1888, the Isis-Urania Temple was founded in London. In contrast to the S.R.I.A. and Masonry, women were allowed and welcome to participate in the Order in "perfect equality" with men. The Order was more of a philosophical and metaphysical teaching order in its early years. Other than certain rituals and meditations found in the Cipher manuscripts and developed further, "magical practices" were generally not taught at the first temple. For the first four years, the Golden Dawn was one cohesive group later known as "the Outer Order"

neg: Temple of the Stars Temple of the Stars The Temple of the Stars is an alleged ancient temple claimed to be situated around Glastonbury in Somerset, England. The temple is claimed by some to depict a colossal landscape zodiac, a map of the stars on a gigantic scale, formed by features in the landscape (roads, streams, field boundaries, etc.). The theory was first put forward in 1934 by Katherine Maltwood, an artist who "discovered" the zodiac in a vision, and held that the "temple" was created by Sumerians in about 2700 BC. The idea was revived in 1969 by Mary Caine in an article

neg: Guangjiao Temple (Xuancheng) Sites in Anhui" by the State Council of China. The seven story, tall, tetragonal-based Twin Pagodas is made of brick and stone. Guangjiao Temple (Xuancheng) Guangjiao Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Xuanzhou District, Xuancheng, Anhui, China. Alongside Huacheng Temple, Cuifeng Temple and Kaihua Temple, it is honoured as the "Four Famous Buddhist Temples in Anhui". It was first built in the Tang dynasty by a prominent Chan master Huangbo Xiyun, and went through many changes and repairs through the following dynasties. Most of the present structures in the temple were repaired or rebuilt between 2004 and 2006.

neg: Isis-Urania Temple Isis-Urania Temple The Isis-Urania Temple was initially the first temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The three founders, Dr. William Robert Woodman, William Wynn Westcott, and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, were Freemasons and members of Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (S.R.I.A.). It continued as one of four daughter organisations into which the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn fragmented, the others being the Alpha et Omega, the Stella Matutina and Aleister Crowley's A∴A∴. In October 1887, Westcott wrote to Anna Sprengel, whose name and address he received through the decoding of the Cipher Manuscripts. A reply was purported

neg: Prahladpuri Temple, Multan Sikhs. However, Alexander Burnes, who visited the temple in 1831, said that he found it deserted and without a roof. Later, in year 1849, when British laid siege of Multan Fort against Mul Raj, a shell fired by British army fell on gunpowder store within the fort, thus destroying almost all of the fort except the mausoleums of Bahauddin Zakaria and his sons and the Prahladpuri temple complex. Alexander Cunningham described this temple as it was seen in 1853 by him who wrote that: “It was a square brick building with some very finely carved wooden pillars for the support

neg: Palani Murugan temple Kartikeya, and gods and goddesses attendant upon him. In the first inner "prahāram", or ambulatory, around the heart of the temple, are two minor shrines, one each, to Shiva and Parvati, besides one to the sage Bhogar who is by legend credited with the creation and consecration of the chief idol. In the second precinct, is a celebrated shrine of Ganapati, besides the carriage-house of the Muruga's Golden Chariot. The most common form of worship at the temple is the "abhishekam" - anointment of the idol with oils, sandalwood paste, milk, unguents and the like and then bathing it with

neg: Ta Keo is called "Hemagiri" or "Hemasringagiri" ("the mountain with golden summits"). It remained unfinished until the reign of Suryavarman I. Yogisvarapandita, a high priest who became minister of Suryavarman I and "received" the temple from him many years later, says in inscriptions that a lightning strike hit the unfinished building, an evil omen, so the work stopped. Maybe work stopped simply because of the death of Jayavarman V, as there was a struggle for succession. The temple worked continuously as a cult center until the 13th century, and even Yogisvarapandita worshiped the shrines at the first levels of the temple. A

neg: Cipher Manuscripts the contents of the papers. Miss Sprengel responded, and after accepting the requests of Westcott and his partner and fellow Mason Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, who had helped translate the texts, issued them a Charter to operate a Lodge of the Order in England. Westcott's first Golden Dawn temple was the Isis-Urania Temple, styled "No. 3." Temple No. 1 would have been Fräulein Sprengel's lodge, and No. 2 was supposedly an abortive attempt at a lodge by some unnamed persons in London (possibly a reference to Mackenzie and other S.R.I.A. members some years earlier). Considerable controversy surrounds the origins of

neg: Kaviyoor Mahadevar Temple not visible clearly. The Balickalpura sculptures include some poses from Kamasastra too. These sculptures belongs to late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. The wood work of this temple was done by local sculptors, belonging to Thekkethil family. Each and every part of this temple radiates architectural splendor. The Temple has a huge collection of precious ornaments which also shows the artistic excellence of the sculptors of Kaviyoor. These include Swarna prabhamandalam, Golden Nettippattams and ezhunnallippu chatams, Golden pots, Golden Reliefs of Deities, Golden Umbrellas, Golden Chains and Several materials with precious gems. According to the revised pathiv (business) of Kaviyoor

neg: Comilla Jagannath Temple Comilla Jagannath Temple Comilla Jagannath Temple, also known as Sateroratna Mandir or seventeen-jewel temple, is located in Comilla, Bangladesh. It is dedicated to the Hindu God Jagannath. It dates back to the 16th century, and was built by Sree Sreejoktou Moharaja Rada Kishor Manikuo Bahadur, who was the king of Tripura. The deities of Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra were originally installed in a temple in Tripura from where they were subsequently shifted to this temple. Jagannath Temple is one of the oldest temples of Comilla district. It is located two km south-east from Comilla town. The terracotta brick work of

neg: Domus Transitoria rebuilt, the Golden House". A few isolated parts of the palace have been discovered but the overall plan remains unclear. 5 metres below Hadrian's Temple of Venus and Rome a sumptuous rotunda belonging to the palace was discovered in 1828, cut through by foundations of the Domus Aurea. Another part is thought to be on the western side of the Oppian Hill under the Baths of Trajan. The brick walls of the palace were originally covered with marble at the bottom, while the upper parts were frescoed. A portico was in front of the domus along the south side. Almost

neg: Ralpacan from Sanskrit. Ralpacan was considered to be an emanation of Vajrapani, and encouraged Indian and Tibetan scholars to translate the Tripiṭaka, the Commentaries, and ancient Tantras into the Tibetan language. Ralpachan built a magnificent nine-story stone temple of 'U shang near the confluence of the Tsangpo and Kyi Rivers. The lower stories were of stone, the three middle ones of brick and the top three of wood. It was famous for its remarkable golden roof. On the top floors he stored Buddhist scriptures, stupas and images, while the middle floors were used by scholars and translators, and the bottom floors

neg: Senbi Kiyamba Senbi Kiyamba Medingu Senbi Kiyamba (1467-1508) was ruler of Meeteileipak, now named Manipur. He was the son of Medingu Ningthou Khomba and his warrior queen Leima Linthoingambi. Born Thangwai Ningthouba, he succeeded his father at the age of 24. He took the name Kiyamba meaning "Conqueror of Kyang", after conquering the Shan kingdom in the Kabaw Valley in alliance with King Choupha Khe Khomba of Pong in 1470. In celebration for their victory over Kyang, the King of Pong presented Kiyamba with a golden box containing a stone known as "Pheiya" (Almighty). Kiyamba built a brick temple in the capital

neg: Phra Pathommachedi complex still floods occasionally after heavy rain especially the grass fields around the stupa. In 1996 the temple grass fields have been cemented to prevent flood. The design of Phra Pathommachedi complex, when viewed from above, takes the form of a giant Buddhist mandala, simultaneously representing the Buddhist cosmology with Phra Pathommachedi in the center. Phra Pathommachedi is the tallest stupa in Thailand, standing at 120.45 meters and with circumference of 235.50 meters. The current form of Pathommachedi is bell shape Sri Lanka styled brick stupa covered by golden brown colour tiles. The structure foundation of the stupa is timbers