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unusual facts about pagoda



1916 Cochinchina uprising

The centre of the planning appeared to be the Nui Cam Pagoda in Châu Đốc, while many participants also appeared to have been sympathisers and affiliates of Prince Cường Để, who was living in exile.

Arthur H. Vinal

Globe Theater (burlesque and later B movie house), later known as the Center and the Pagoda, 690 Washington Street, Boston (1903, French Renaissance)

Bailin Temple

Bailin Temple (Hebei) in Zhaoxian County, Hebei, famous for its pagoda.

Beopjusa

Beopjusa was chosen by Bruce Lee as the original setting for the movie Game of Death, with the five floors of Palsangjeon pagoda representing five different martial arts.

Buddhist temples in Huế

During 1968, the pagoda was heavily damaged during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War, some of which remains unrepaired.

Buddleja 'Pink Pagoda'

Buddleja 'Pink Pagoda' (sold as 'InSpired Pink' in the USA) is a sterile hybrid cultivar raised in 1998 by Peter Moore, Chief Propagator at the Longstock Park Nursery in Hampshire, England, and named by Roy Lancaster.

Chinese pagoda

This includes the two Ming Dynasty pagodas of Famen Temple and the Chongwen Pagoda in Jingyang of Shaanxi Province.

The highest Chinese pagoda from the pre-modern age is the Liaodi Pagoda of Kaiyuan Monastery, Dingxian, Hebei province, completed in the year 1055 AD under Emperor Renzong of Song and standing at a total height of 84 m (275 ft).

Columbarium

In Buddhism, ashes of the deceased may be placed in a columbarium (in Chinese, a naguta ("bone-receiving pagoda"); in Japanese, a nokotsudo ("bone-receiving hall")), which can be either attached to or a part of a Buddhist temple or cemetery.

Democratic Karen Buddhist Army

As the KNU leadership would not grant permission for the white-painted pagoda, claiming it would attract government air strikes, Thuzana then started to encourage KNU troops to leave the KNU.

Diệu Đế Pagoda

On the night of 21 August 1963, it was the site of a bloody battle between the government forces of President Ngô Đình Diệm and rioting pro-Buddhist civilians who were attempting to stop the troops from raiding the pagoda to arrest dissident monks who were calling for religious equality during the Buddhist crisis.

Hu Nim

His mother, who remarried a landless peasant farmer, eventually sent him to live with Sam Khor at a pagoda in Mien, Prey Chhor District.

In Tam

As a child he studied Pali at Stung Treng Pagoda, before going on to study at the Lycee Sisowath.

Jongno

Many important landmarks are located along its length, including the Bigak pavilion at Sejongno, the Bosingak belfry (hence the street's name), Tapgol Park (Pagoda Park), the Jongmyo royal ancestral shrine, and the aforementioned Dongdaemun (Great East Gate).

Joss paper

The papers may also be folded and stacked into elaborate pagodas or lotuses.

Magha Puja

Other pagoda festivals are held on this day, including the Shwe Settaw Pagoda Festival in Magwe Region's Minbu Township and the Alaungdaw Kathapa Pagoda Festival, near the Alaungdaw Kathapa National Park in Sagaing Region.

Maha Wizaya Pagoda

The pagoda was built to commemorate the convening of the First Congregation of All Orders for the Purification, Perpetuation and Propagation of Sasana in 1980, which formed the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee, a governmental regulatory body of Buddhist monks.

Mar Thoma VII

Soon after becoming the Metropolitan Mar Thoma VII continued to discuss with Col. Macaulay, the British resident, and the church decided to deposit as loan in perpetuity a sum of 3000 Poovarahan (A poovarahan, known as Star Pagoda had a market value of £475 in 2002).

Maru, Kathmandu

The square is dominated by the massive pagoda roofs of Maru Satah (मरु सत:) (Kasthamandap) which stands on the northern side of the square.

Mingun

Just a couple of hundred yards from the great stupa and bell lies the beautiful white Hsinbyume or Myatheindan Pagoda with a distinctive architectural style modelled after the mythical Mount Meru (Myinmo taung), built in 1816 by Bodawpaya's grandson and successor Bagyidaw and dedicated to the memory of his first consort Princess Hsinbyume (Lady of the White Elephant, granddaughter of Bodawpaya, 1789–1812) who died in childbirth.

Mount Popa

Their sons also became heroes in the king's service but were later executed for neglecting their duty during the construction of a pagoda at Taungbyone near Mandalay.

Nan Tien Temple

In addition to various meeting rooms, a museum, cultural, conference and accommodation facilities and a restaurant, the Nan Tien temple complex includes two massive prayer halls (known as the Great Mercy Shrine and the Great Hero Hall) within which are located multiple monumental Buddha and Bodhisattva statues, as well as an 8 level pagoda, serving as a columbarium intended to house the cremated remains of 7000 people.

Nathan Dunn

100,000 visitors saw it in Philadelphia and an equal number in London, where the Collection was displayed in a pagoda-like exhibition hall at Hyde Park Corner in 1842.

Neijing Tu

Together with his archetypal lover Zhinü 織女 "the weaver girl" "Vega" (see Qi Xi), they propel qi up to the tracheal Twelve-Storied Pagoda.

River Caves

The music used in this section is - The Pagoda Of Pillagi by Victor Young

S. japonicum

Styphnolobium japonicum, the pagoda tree, Chinese scholar, Japanese pagodatree, a small tree or shrub species native to eastern Asia

Shorea robusta

In Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, one can find typical Nepali pagoda temple architectures with very rich wooden carvings, and most of the temples, such as Nyatapol Temple (Nyatapola), are made of bricks and sal tree wood.

Tà Cú Pagoda

Mount Tà Cú Pagoda (Chùa núi Tà Cú) is a temple on Tà Cú mountain, Hàm Thuận Nam District district, Bình Thuận Province, Vietnam.

Taunggyi

Near Taunggyi, in Kakku, one can see the local pagoda, whose hundreds of stupas date back to 16th century.

The Five-Storied Pagoda

Deep in the Valley interlaces a story of young romance set in Yanaka (part of old downtown Tokyo) with a Japanese period drama based on Five-Story Pagoda, a classic literary work by Rohan Kōda.

Từ Đàm Pagoda

During 1968, the pagoda was heavily damaged during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War, some of which still remains unrepaired.

Unjusa

The final atop the pagoda, a cylindrical stone, preserves a place for Buddha.

Vietnamese art

One Pillar Pagoda: The one pillar pagoda is one of the most ancient structures of Hanoi, its design credited to Emperor Lý Thái Tổ.

The Lý Dynasty also saw the construction of many of Vietnam's landmark structures, including the Temple of Literature, One-pillar pagoda, and Quynh Lam pagoda.

Yanaka

Yanaka Five-Storied Pagoda Double-Suicide Arson Case, the burning by arson in 1957 of a five-storied pagoda in the Yanaka Cemetery


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