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Thursday, October 13, 2011

The Great Wall

The Great Wall
The Great Wall of China is a symbol that has been stuck firmly in the Chinese mythology and with the coming of the 20th century, the Great Wall of China has become a national symbol of the nation Tiongkok.Various great wars and historical events have been engraved on the ancient walls that form one of the wonders of this world.
Various kinds of heroes and war experts, statesmen and generals appear on the wars in the region's historic Great Wall, all of these cultures to enrich the contents of the Great Wall. Beautiful legends emerged from between the stones sturdy Great Wall, the stories that give life to the figure of a high wall and cold. The stories about the fall of a dynasty, one of ordinary intelligence, till love story that touches the heart. Wall Jiayuguan (Gansu province) is one of the pulse is stretched across most of the Ancient Silk Road (the path that stretches from southern Europe, Arabia, India, to China). Its construction requires a number of workers and material resources are enormous. From behind the walls of Jiayuguan appear this is a variety of stories that are sometimes weird sometimes wonderful about the construction.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Kwan Sing Bio Temple

Kwan Sing Bio Temple
Centuries ago before the Europeans came and colonized Indonesia, Chinese people have first arrived. At first they just open up trade opportunities, but most of them eventually settled and lived there as a citizen of Indonesia .

Chinese people bring much influence to the local community. Some of them are cultures , customs and religion. This evidence can be seen from some of those relics are scattered throughout most of the archipelago.

One of these relics is in the Tuban area of pagoda . Pagoda overlooking the sea is known as the Pagoda " Kwan Sing Bio ".

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Buddhagaya Watugong Monastery Semarang


Vihara Buddhagaya Watugong, Semarang, Central Java, was the first monastery established in Indonesia since the collapse of Majapahit and the destruction of the Buddha-Dhamma as well as the disappearance of Buddhist community in the archipelago.
Starting from the arrival of Venerable Naradha Mahathera of Sri Lanka in around 1930 AD, which became the first Buddhist missionaries after 500 years of post-Majapahit. Historically, this Watugong Buddhagaya monastery was officially founded in 1957.In this monastery planted "-Bodhi Tree" [The tree is 'credited' to the-Buddha reached enlightenment at the time], and the plant is Bhante Naradha Mahathera.