KYLTOVSKAYA TERRITORY: FROM FEMALE MONASTERY TO CHILDREN’S TOWN FOR STRETLESS

From a 16th century monastery to a 21st century orthopaedic hospital.

bmj.com). The demon for boils and skin diseases has skin lesions that look like carbuncles on the face (fig 2, left). It is not surprising that the masks for malaria and high fevers (fig E on bmj.com) and for cholera and chills (fig 2, middle) are similar and have fiery red complexions. The mask for high fevers can usually be distinguished by flames across the forehead, which may be reminiscent...

Mealtime at a Tibetan monastery.

With assistance from lay volunteers and using a giant stove, Tibetan monks at Longen monastery in rural Qinghai province China prepare and serve meals for several hundred of their peers during the summer retreat. In the past, rugged geography and the isolation of this monastery above 13,000 feet gave reasons for the monks to eat local meat since other foodstuffs were unavailable in an area unab...

Female Genital Mutilation and Birth Complications, Jijiga Town, Eastern Ethiopia

Thailand Loburi Providence-thamkrabok Monastery

The primary objectives of my funded research were two fold in construct and dealt with systems of management on both an industrial and individual level. The first was to examine the environmental and socio-economic burdens of resource management in relation to copper ore extraction in Chile, the world’s largest copper producer. Secondly, I visited a unique detoxification program at the Thamkrab...

Virtual Historical Heritage: Yuso Monastery

Due to the maturity acquired by the new technologies, the research work developed within the project of the Virtual Reconstruction of the monastery of San Millan de la Cogolla, is focused on the use of VR techniques in very different environments, such as historical documentation or artistic purposes. This project consists of the development of a VR application with spreading aims. The research...