Introduction In an entry in Nietzsche’s notebooks from the eighties, the entire spiritual movement of German philosophy is described as guided by nostalgia, by Heimweh. It is a nostalgia for “the best”, Nietzsche writes, which rejects the present in favor of the past. Ultimately, it is a will to recover Greek philosophy in general, and in particular the philosophy of the presocratics, that “bes...

various opinions have been put forward about achaemenian beliefs and thoughts, especially about the religious beliefs of the achaemenian kings such as cyrus the great. scholars rely on herodotus’s statements that “they didn’t look at building temples and altars as a religious tradition, they refer believing in these things as ignorance and foolishness in the converse opinion to greeks. they did...

R. Compton,1,2 A. Filin,1,2 D. A. Romanov,1,3 and R. J. Levis1,2 1Center for Advanced Photonics Research, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA 2Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA 3Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA (Received 10 September 2010; publis...

This special panel session provides an opportunity to discuss how entertainment computing designers create interactive media/ contents on Buddhism and also other religious practices. In this year, we have launched an exciting project designing interactive contents to be used in Todaiji temple, one of the world heritages located in Nara, Japan. In this project, we are actually collaborating with...

Temple Stay program is a newly developed but comparatively mature tourism product in Korea, which is to accommodate and cater tourists in Buddhist temples and have them experience over 1700 years Korean traditions of Buddhism and culture. As a product of compromise between Korean Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the most influential Buddhist organization Jogye Order, Temple Stay program was ...

The increasing solid waste generation rates and their high collection cost were some of the major problems in India. This paper deals with the effective management of Temple wastes. The temple waste consists of coconut, leaves, flowers, fruits etc which are of biodegradable in nature.It also includes milk products, grains and water, which could facilitate the growth of microorganisms. Such biod...

The paper focuses on the use of what we (in western countries) call “complementary medicine” or traditional medicine. The research study has been carried out by the Authors in a healing temple in South India, namely the temple of Muthuswamy in the village of Velayuthampalayampudur, Dindugal District. The temple was built over 60 years ago around the tomb of Muthuswamy, a man who lived in the vi...

Human societies utilize mollusks for myriad material and spiritual ends. An example of their use in a religious context is found in Brazil's African-derived belief systems. Candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religion introduced during the 18th-19th centuries by enslaved Yoruba, includes various magical and liturgical uses of mollusks. This work inventoried the species utilized by adherents and to ana...

The Maltese island have megalithic temples of extraordinary interest for archaeoastronomy. In literature we find different works that involve most of its archaeological sites. The temple of Borġ in-Nadur, set on the top of a hill by the Marsaxlokk Bay in southern Malta, is less well known than the rest of the others, even though it started off as a major attraction for grand tourists and travel...

1598 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 20, No. 9, September 2014 P Jaima grew up in rural northern Thailand, where village life, work, and worship were all intertwined. His parents were wood carvers at the local Buddhist temple, where at age 10 he began studying traditional northern Thai Buddhist scriptures. Upon entering the sixth school grade at age 12, Jaima became a Budd...