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"And as the plague keeps crawling
They eat the innards of the saints
We failed
Drawn to the pit by the smell of the carcass
Mankind is enticed to oppression
Blind and tied then bred to swallow this ill-fated blasphemous creed
Taste the vile golden crown
Forge anew the curse of life
Sworn to obey your masters calling
Tyranny is the saviour’s will and faith
Bastards who hail the unseen servitude
To fulfill their need to endure
They cast them in gaols, tortured, skinned, maimed and sliced
May their kin be eradicated to delight in everlasting grace
Rabid like dogs, we serve and disgust you
Weaving our self loathe to cling upon our lives
Tyranny - We shall be devoted to centuries of pain
Tyranny - We shall be devoted to slavers of the self
Rabid like dogs, we serve and disgust you
Weaving our self loathe to cling upon our lives
Oh monarch, beseech us to keep upon our necks and feet the gentle chains of higher scorn
Avow the guilt and skin the earth upon which I sacrifice my will and my desire for thee
Fierce is the one who detests his creation
As rot engulfs the ascended
Choice became the mark of the traitors
Hanging down from sacred trees
Spiritual cancer swells
To dissolve our mortal shell
Don’t you see they birthed the culling?
Tyranny is the saviour’s will and faith
Bastards who hail the unseen servitude
To fulfill their need to endure
They cast them in gaols, tortured, skinned, maimed and sliced
May their kin be eradicated to feed the neverending grace of war."
A small raked-gravel transition between pavilions at the Higashi Honganji Temple in Kyoto (East Honganji).
I really liked those heavy diagonals transgressed by the little path to the pavilion. Outrageously - this is the only pic I made here and it's with the phone.
Admittedly I always shoot in RAW when possible with the Moment camera app but the phone has got a few years on it now (09/2019). If I were to upgrade it I reckon the other cameras would leave home in a big sooky-la-la...
iPhone 11 Pro Max, 4.25/1.8 back camera lens (~26mm equivalent), 1/220th sec at f/1.8, ISO 32.
The main gate of the Yonghe Temple, with Golden Week crowds.
A site of both mass tourism and intense religious devotion, the Yonghe Temple is one of Beijing’s most significant historical landmarks, and a great survival of the golden age of peace and prosperity that marked the early part of the Qing Dynasty in the late 17th and 18th Centuries.
The Yonghe Temple (Chinese: 雍和宮 or yōnghé gōng, “Palace of Peace and Harmony”), also known as the Yonghe Lamasery, or popularly as the Lama Temple, is a temple and monastery of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism located on 12 Yonghegong Street, Beijing’s Dongcheng Borough, around 4 km north-east of the Forbidden City. The building and artwork of the temple is a combination of Han Chinese and Tibetan styles. This building is one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in China proper. The current abbot is Lama Hu Xuefeng. Yonghe Temple was the highest Buddhist temple in the country during the middle and late Qing dynasty.
Building work on the Yonghe Temple started in 1694 during the Qing dynasty on the site where an official residence for court eunuchs of the Ming dynasty originally stood. It was then converted into the residence of Yinzhen (Prince Yong), the fourth son of the Kangxi Emperor in 1702-3In 1711, Hongli, the fourth son of Yongzheng, the future Qianlong Emperor, was born in the East Academy in this building.
Prince Yong ascended the throne as the Yongzheng Emperor in 1722, and the palace was renamed the ‘Palace of Peace and Harmony’ (雍和宫). After the Yongzheng Emperor’s death in 1735, his coffin was placed in the temple from 1735 to 1737. In 1744, the Qianlong Emperor issued an edict of converting the Palace of Peace and Harmony into a lamasery.
Subsequently, the monastery became a residence for large numbers of Tibetan Buddhist monks from Mongolia and Tibet, and so the Yonghe Lamasery became the national centre of Lama administration. Since 1792, with the foundation of the Golden Urn, the Yonghe Temple also became a place for the Qing dynasty to exert control over the Tibetan and Mongolian lama reincarnations.
The temple was the site of an armed revolt against the Chinese Nationalist government in 1929.
After the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949, the temple was declared a national monument and closed for the following 32 years. It is said to have survived the Cultural Revolution due to the intervention of Premier Zhou Enlai. Reopened to the public in 1981, it is today both a functioning temple and highly popular tourist attraction in the city.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
Each time I visit Beijing I try to spend some time in Yonghegong Lama Temple, the most beautiful temple in the city.
On this late winter afternoon, shortly before they close, the sun was low enough to shine into the hall of the buddha shrine creating increadible rays of light through the smoke of burning incent sticks.
In front of the Jokhang temple, she and her family did a full body prostration.
This is very hard to do,
The actual prostration is performed by dropping the body forward and stretching it full length on the floor, the arms outstretched in front.... Again, with hands in the lotus bud mudra, bend your arms back and touch your hands to the top of your head (forehead touching the ground), a gesture that acknowledges the blessing flowing from Guru Rinpoche. Then stretch your arms out once more and push yourself up.... Bring your hands into the lotus bud mudra for the third time and touch your heart in a gesture of reverence. Then, walk forward in body length, with a smooth motion, bring your hands to your crown and perform the next prostration...........
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostration_(Buddhism)
Candles offered to Santo Cristo de Lepanto, a battle-scarred, dark-skinned Christ inside one of the many chapels within Barcelona's Catedral de la Seu.
Since everyone loved this photo before, I'll upload it now. Gonna go take some photos later today when the sun goes down (because that's my favorite time!)
Thank you for those that voted for me, I won first place for the contest. I'm very excited! Cannot wait to get my new Flip Ultra HD in the mail. :)
A stained glass window in St Mary The Virgin Church, Welwyn.
cms.welwyn.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=a...
Straight out of the camera.
Much better on black or large please xx
Dear old world...
you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery ~
Happy Earth Day!
Roid Week 2021
color sx-70 film
Inside the Svetitskhoveli Georgian Orthodox Cathedral, Tblisi Georgia
Nikon D850, Nikkor 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 ED VR
The girls photo is from Kirill Balobanov allt he rest that follows is texturing for everybody a nice sunday.
Acordar...
...em esplendorosas ilhas no Atlântico plantadas...
...desde a hora azul, em lugar místico, isolado e ao mar conquistado pelas forças telúricas, onde a devoção do homem a Deus, ao Mar e ao Sol tem lugar...
Wakening...
...in splendorous islands i
n the Atlantic planted...
...from the blue hour, in a mystic and isolated place and to the sea conquered by the telluric forces, where the man's devotion to God, to the Sea and to the Sun takes place...
I think Viktorya has a lifelong friend in Silva... that look of devotion in his eyes.... <3
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YouplaDolls Vana wearing KalciaWorkshop. Silver fox by BestariumDolls
And now for something completely different... with pain in the heart I added noise to my practically noise-free camera, just to enhance the atmosphere, I hope you like it :-)
A cafe in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
Please listen to He needs me
Ellora Cave 16: the Kailasanatha Temple. 8th century.
Conceptualizing an idea that would take 200 years to complete, take 7500 people to finish, with buy-in from 10 generations of stake holders, detailing it to the T (a house of god cannot have a wrong cut), excavating 400000 tonnes of rock, all of these could only have been possible because of the sheer brilliance, love and devotion of those involved.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailasa_temple,_Ellora
Ellora Caves Album: