1. Research Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India 2. Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India; 3. Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, S...

We digitally restored the original Great Buddha and the main hall of Todaiji temple. Todaiji temple has been destroyed by natural and artificial disasters and rebuilt for a number of times. As a result, the shapes of the current Great Buddha and its main hall are slightly different from the original states. We reconstructed the 3D models of the original Great Buddha and its main hall. The 3D mo...

in the 19th century, the first monograph on the legend of the buddha is published by senart. in this context, biography of shakyamony became a symbol and myth. many french indiologists studied and analyzed the spiritual and legendary life of buddha by referring to buddhist scriptures of pali canon and sanskrit. but, they faced with ambiguous character of buddha, because of his historical and my...

In the valley of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, ca 2000 years ago, two big standing Buddha statues were carved out of the sedimentary rock of the region. They were 53 and 35 meters high and the Great one figured as the tallest representations of a standing Buddha. In March 2001 the Taleban militia demolished the colossal statues, as they were considered an insult to Islam. After the destruction, a conso...

In the valley of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, ca 2000 years ago, two big standing Buddha statues were carved out of the sedimentary rock of the region. They were 53 and 35 meters high and the Great one figured as the tallest representations of a standing Buddha. In March 2001 the Taleban militia demolished the colossal statues, as they were considered an insult to Islam. After the destruction, a conso...

In the valley of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, ca 2000 years ago, two big standing Buddha statues were carved out of the sedimentary rock of the region. They were 53 and 35 meters high and the Great one figured as the tallest representations of a standing Buddha. In March 2001 the Taleban militia demolished the colossal statues, as they were considered an insult to Islam. After the destruction, a conso...

In the valley of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, ca 2000 years ago, two big standing Buddha statues were carved out of the sedimentary rock of the region. They were 53 and 35 meters high and the Great one figured as the tallest representations of a standing Buddha. In March 2001 the Taleban militia demolished the colossal statues, as they were considered an insult to Islam. After the destruction, a conso...

In the valley of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, ca 1800 years ago, two big standing Buddha statues were carved out of the sedimentary rock of the region. They measured 53 and 35 meters in height and the Great one figured as the tallest representation of a standing Buddha worldwide. In March 2001 the Taleban militia demolished the colossal statues, as they were considered an insult to Islam. After the de...

The importance of the possible existence of so-called freak waves regarding structural design is discussed. At first the framework for design of offshore structures on the Norwegian continental shelf is presented for the purpose of indicating the annual exceedance probabilities of concern regarding design. The adequacy of the second order random model for the sea surface process is briefly indi...

Journal of Buddhist Ethics 6 (1999): 219 In 1839, Robert Spence Hardy, Methodist missionary to what was then Ceylon, wrote The British Government and the Idolatry of Ceylon, a polemical pamphlet which accused the ruling British authorities of supporting a religion abhorrent to the mind of God because of its idolatry and Ògross superstitionsÓ (Hardy, 1839, p. 46). He was talking of Buddhism. Tha...