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   Angkor is the name conventionally applied to a region of Cambodia serving as the headquarters of the Khmer empire that flourished (approximately) from the ninth century until the thirteenth century. The ruins of Angkor are located amid a forest and some farmland near Siem Reap and is a UNESCO site minunantiile included.      Angkor Wat was declared the biggest religious monument in the world. In 2007, an international team of researchers concl...

   Wat Rong Khun in Chinang Mai, Thailand, is different from any other Buddhist temple in the world. Completely white and adorned extraordinary, this structure is actually still under construction. May Charlermchai artist is expected to last another 90 years until it be ready, making the equivalent of the Sagrada Familia temple in Barcelona....

   Taktshang is the most famous monastery in Bhutan. It is sat on a rock situated at an altitude of 3120 meters or 700 meters above Paro Valley. Taktshang means "nest of tigers' names following the legend that Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) there came flying on the back of a tiger. Monastery includes 7 temples can be visited. Up there you can reach on foot or on a mule....

   In a hundred years after the Dutch discovered the body of the Prambanan in Indonesia, the British stepped aside ashes on him and saw that it is not just a pile of stones, as believed. Today, surrounded by a stone wall four feet high, was restored only nucleus of this ensemble. It is composed of three main temples, three secondary, plus eight, with four of them formed some gates in the middle of each side wall and the other four are located at the corners. Though not the biggest t...

   Gurdwara Sahib-Akali Thakat is also known as the Golden Temple. Built in the place called Amritsar in Punjab, India, this temple is the core of religion Sikhism. Based on a belief in God and 10 Guru, Sikh Bible, the religion was founded by Guru Nanak, in the early 16th century and was taken over by others who have mastered perceptele 9 GURU them in a form that strict and fundamnetalista is found today in the practice of monks Sikh Golden Temple. The temple is built mostly of whit...

   Chione-in Temple was built in 1234 in Kyoto, in honor of the founder Jodo Buddhism (Earth righteous), a priest named Honen Shonin, who fasted to death in this very place. Maruyama Park is located in the north, which is also one of the biggest attractions of the city....

   Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple (Srirangam), situated 6 km north of the city Triky is one of the most complex temples in India, with a series of shrines dedicated to Shiva. Surrounded by a plantation of palm trees, the temple is built on an island Kaveri and covers an area of 2.5 km 2. Surrounded by 6 rectangular wall outside the temple built in 13 century, has 21 gopurams, most of them measuring 73 meters high and is connected to town by a bridge....

   Borobudur Temple, located 42 miles northwest from the Javanese province, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, is the largest Buddhist temple in the world. It is built in the shape of pyramid with a square base of 118 m long. Borobudur was considered a "kumagara" (covered structure) and agreed to be dwelling on when Sakyamuni Buddha is in the womb. Temple builders wanted Buddha's teachings to be represented visually. At the same time we wanted to suggest this Sakyamuni's power through...

   In the south of the historic center of Beijing and the Temple of Heaven Park is - Tientan - oases of peace in the heart of uproar. Main Temple - Hall of prayer for a plentiful harvest - is known world wide since the '80s, when many Chinese products they had on the package: a red cone with three rows of roof (cone symbolizes the sky), climb on a square marble terrace (symbol of the Earth). Two other pieces accomplish all that the Son of Heaven and pray for forgiveness of sins harv...

   On top of a hill north of the city Rangoon, Burma's capital, is Shwedagon Pagoda. Covering an area of 6.07 ha is a Pagoda complex structures or familiar bright and strange creatures: griffins, sfincsi, dragons, lions, elephants glow red and gold and slender palm rest are the only elements that look natural in this atmosphere loaded. Shwedagon is one of the places sacred to the Buddhist religion. Enshrined in the heart of the massive hive of gold is, according to tradition, the re...