Thursday, September 29, 2011

TEN MOST BEAUTIFUL CREATIONS


RELIGIOUS WONDER OF THE WORLD 
TEN MOST BEAUTIFUL CREATIONS


[1] Tiger's Nest Monastery, perched precariously on the edge of a 3,000-feet-high cliff in Paro Valley,
 is one of the holiest places in Bhutan 

[2] Wat Rong Khun in Chiang Mai, Thailand, is unlike any Buddhist temples in the world. 


[3] Prambanan is a Hindu temple in Central Java, Indonesia. The temple was built in 850 CE,
 and is composed of 8 main shrines and 250 surrounding smaller ones
 

[4] No one knows exactly when the Shwedagon Paya that it is 2,500 years old though archaeologists estimate that it was built between the 6th and 10thcentury [wiki] (or Pagoda) in Myanmar was built - legend has it that it is 2,500 years old though archaeologists estimate that it was built between the 6th and 10thcentury



[5] Temple of Heaven is a Taoist temple in Beijing, the capital of China. The temple was constructed in 14th century by Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty




[6] Chion-in Temple
 a priest named Honen, who fasted to death in the very spot. [wiki] was built in 1234 CE to honor the founder of Jodo (Pure Land) Buddhism,




[7] In the 19th century, Dutch occupiers of Indonesia found a massive ancient ruin deep in the jungles of Java.What they discovered was the complex of Borobudur, a gigantic structure built with nearly 2 million cubic feet (55,000 m³) of stones. The temple has nearly 2,700 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues.  







[8] The Harmandir Sahib (meaning The Abode of God) or simply the Golden TempleIndia is the most sacred shrine of Sikhism. [wiki] in Punjab,





[9] The Temple of Srirangam (Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple
is the largest functioning Hindu temple in the world (Ankor Wat is the largest of all temple,[wiki]), in the Indian city of Tiruchirapalli (or Trichy), but it is currently non-functioning as a temple - see below).  







[10] Last but definitely not least is the largest temple in history and the inspiration to countless novelsand action movies of Hollywood: Angkor Wat.




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