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Arched Gateways Pan-Asian Architecture

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Since it's one of the more pan-Asian holidays today, here's one of my favorite bits of more pan-Asian architecture: the arched gateways called torana in ancient India , & which became paifang in China ,  hongsalmun in Korea ,  torii in Japan ,  sao ching cha in Thailand , Kori agung in Bali and etcs.  source

WHY GO TO TEMPLES?

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This is fantastic, I just love the guy's answer. Enjoy and pass it on.  I thought you would enjoy it also. If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this! If you're spiritually dead, you won't want to read it. If you're spiritually curious, there is still hope! A Temple goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to temples every now n then. He wrote: "I've gone for 30 years now, & in that time I have heard something like 3,000 teachings, but for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time, the preachers & monks  are wasting theirs by giving teachings  at all". This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column Much to the delight of the editor, it went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher: "I've been married for 30 years now.  In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals...