Sojiji Temple in Nagahama

Cheryl Temple

The Temple Web Translator

New Web sites in foreign languages are appearing everyday, and language barriers threaten to atomize the World Wide Web into closed linguistic communities. The Temple project has developed an open multilingual architecture and software support for rapid development of machine translation systems for assimilation purposes. The targeted languages are those for which natural language processing an...

George Henry Temple

Holy Wars? Temple Desecrations in Medieval India

We construct a unique geocoded dataset on temples, dynasties and battles in medieval India and propose a test to identify the motive for observed temple desecrations in that period. We test two competing historical narratives of temple desecrations. The first focuses on the idea of iconoclasm, i.e. destruction of religious sites and imagery deemed heretical, as embedded in Islamic theology. The...

Plant Conservation in Temple Yards of Orissa

This paper is a brief survey of the role of temples and holy places in nurturing the surrounding flora and its habitat. Eightysix kinds of plants in temple yards and gardens of orissa have been enlisted where they are cultivated and preserved for different temple rituals. These plants are seen rarely in wild but are saved from extinction by their association with temple rituals and ceremonies.