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Figura Lineage II Elf - Excelente detalle, acabados y calidad, la foto es del producto que recibes. Costo: $800 pesos MX con envío, guía, seguro incluídos. Se envía a cualquier parte del mundo. Servicio express disponible con costo aidcional a cualquier parte del mundo.
Got her today *-* Aww she's awesome and cost her price. Very big.detailed,accurate and AWESOOMEEEE!!!!
Part of a project I worked on linechasing and gene-chasing in white tigers (with a little help from tiger studbooks etc)
This figure papercraft is Arquera, a character from massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) Lineage II, the paper model is created by Paper Rock. The size of finished model is about 600 (H) x 694 (W) x 446 (D) mm.
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This is mormon tea, or Ephedra nevadensis, a surviving species of an ancient and unusual botanical lineage, the Gnetales.
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Shigatse, Tibet , China, Summer Palace Panchen Lama, Tashilhunpo Monastery, Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibetan Plateau, Tsang province of China,
We are visiting the Tashilhunpo Monastery
Tashilhunpo Monastery , founded in 1447 by the 1st Dalai Lama, is a historic and culturally important monastery in Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet.
The monastery was sacked when the Gorkha Kingdom invaded Tibet and captured Shigatse in 1791 before a combined Tibetan and Chinese army drove them back as far as the outskirts of Kathmandu, when they were forced to agree to keep the peace in future, pay tribute every five years, and return what they had looted from Tashilhunpo.
The monastery is the traditional seat of successive Panchen Lamas, the second highest ranking tulku lineage in the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The "Tashi" or Panchen Lama had temporal power over three small districts, though not over the town of Shigatse itself, which was administered by a dzongpön (prefect) appointed from Lhasa.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashilhunpo_Monastery
Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê, is a prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, It is located within the historical Tsang province of Tibet.
oudekraal, victoria road, cape town, western cape- kramat of sheik noorul mobein
Of the three prominent Auliyah buried on the hill facing the Atlantic seaboard, the one nearest to Oudekraal,, appears to be the better know. The man buried there is Shaykh Noorul Mubeen. His grave is reached by ascending the 99 steps leading to it from Victoria Road up the mountain slope. The tomb, a simple, recently renovated building, stands besides a stream. Other side of this stream is another set of steps leading to the grave higher up. Some believe the wife of Shaykh Noorul Mubeen lies buried here while others believe it is one of his followers.
Shaykh Noorul Mubeen was apparently banished to the Cape in 1716 and incarcerated on Robben Island. According to a popular legend he escaped from Robben Island by unknown means and came to make his home in this desolate spot. Soon he made contact with the slaves on the estates in the area, teaching them mainly at night, the religion of Islam When he died, he was buried on the site where he had most frequently read his prayers.
Those who visit the grave of Shaykh Noorul Mubeen find there is a quiet serenity, an ideal spot for meditation, away from the rigours of urban life
excerpts from 'the cape mazaar society's- kramats of the western cape'
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A Kramat is a shrine or mausoleum that has been built over the burial place of a Muslim who's particular piety and practice of the teachings of Islam is recognised by the community. I have been engaged in documenting these sites around Cape Town over several visits at different times over the last few years. They range widely from graves marked by an edge of stones to more elaborate tombs sheltered by buildings of various styles. They are cultural markers that speak of a culture was shaped by life at the Cape and that infuses Cape Town at large.
In my searches used the guide put out by the Cape Masaar Society as a basic guide to locate some recognised sites. Even so some were not that easy to find.
In the context of the Muslims at the Cape, historically the kramats represented places of focus for the faithful and were/are often places of local pilgrimage. When the Dutch and the VOC (United East India Company aka Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) set up a refuelling station and a settlement at the Cape, Muslims from their territories in the East Indies and Batavia were with them from the start as soldiers, slaves and “Vryswarten" (freemen). As the settlement established itself as a colony the Cape became a useful place to banish political opponents from the heart of their eastern empire. Some exiles were of royal lineage and there were also scholars amongst them. One of the most well known of these exiles was Sheik Yusuf who was cordially received by Govenor van der Stel as befitted his rank (he and his entourage where eventually housed on an estate away from the main settlement so that he was less likely to have an influence over the local population), others were imprisoned for a time both in Cape Town and on Robben island. It is said that the first Koran in the Cape was first written out from memory by Sheik Yusuf after his arrival. There were several Islamic scholars in his retinue and these men encouraged something of an Islamic revival amoung the isolated community. Their influence over the enslaved “Malay” population who were already nominally Muslim was considerable and through the ministrations of other teachers to the underclasses the influence of Islam became quite marked. As political opponents to the governing powers the teachers became focus points for escaped slaves in the outlying areas.
Under the VOC it was forbidden to practice any other faith other than Christianity in public which meant that there was no provision for mosques or madrasas. The faith was maintained informally until the end of the C18th when plans were made for the first mosque and promises of land to be granted for a specific burial ground in the Bo Kaap were given in negotiations for support against an imminent British invasion. These promises were honoured by the British after their victory.
There is talk of a prophecy of a protective circle of Islam that would surround Cape Town. I cannot find the specifics of this prophecy but the 27 kramats of the “Auliyah” or friends of Allah, as these honoured individuals are known, do form a loose circle of saints. Some of the Auliyah are credited with miraculous powers in legends that speak of their life and works. Within the folk tradition some are believed to be able to intercede on behalf of supplicants (even though this more part of a mystical philosophy (keramat) and is not strictly accepted in mainstream contemporary Islamic teaching) and even today some visitors may offer special prayers at their grave sites in much the same way as Christians might direct prayer at the shrine of a particular saint.
This formation of planes displays the lineage of the Mustang. The lead plane is an A-36 Apache with a P-51A to its left and a P-51C to its right. The last Mustang is a P51-D. This was the lead formation with the P51C (the Princess Elizabeth) about pull up out of the formation to form the missing man formation at the beginning of the Planes of Fame Airshow at Chino.
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