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Hello Kitty! Desperately trying to get done with these France photos so I can get to the ones I took in October! Happy weekend!
Avenue Kléber - Paris, France
I love woods. I love trees. I love grass, branches, dry leaves and everything that is connected with woods.
I also really love parallel lines. What astonished me recently when I was shooting outside is how our bodies can become completely parallel with trees and branches. And it always look so beautiful when you see the curves of the body next to the curves of the tree...
In this photo I am trying to create this parallel effect
The Avantime was designed and developed in-house by Renault affiliate Matra and was conceived by Philippe Guédon, head of the automotive division at Matra, who "believed that the children of Espace owners remained loyal to the car even after they had grown up and left home. As a result, the renowned MPV was gaining a generation of new drivers."[3]
Styled by Patrick Le Quément, the Avantime was intended to combine the space of an MPV with four-place pillarless qualities of a coupé.[4] Regarding the styling, Thierry Metroz, design project manager, said, "We wanted someone walking around the car to be continually astonished."[5]
The one-box design eliminated B-pillars and featured an aluminum structure, aluminum panels for the greenhouse and a full sunroof of strengthened heat-reflecting glass.[6] The interior featured four seats each with built-in seatbelts and Bridge of Weir leather.[6] To facilitate access to the rear seats, two long doors featured a double parallel-opening hinge system (marketed as "double-kinematic") that maximized access with minimal outswing of the doors.[3] Front side windows lowered automatically when either of the front seats folded forward to further facilitate entry to the rear two seats.[6] Windows featured power-deployable sunshades[2], and the H-points of the rear two seats were higher than the forward two seats, giving the Avantime "theater seating."[5] The luggage compartment featured a retaining system using retractable straps,[6] and all Avantimes featured a two-tone look created by the exposed aluminium of the greenhouse. The windows and panoramic sunroof could open automatically via a single, headliner mounted control,[2] to give the Avantime an 'open air' mode.
The design borrowed the automotive space frame of the first generation Renault Espace (load bearing galvanized structure with non-load bearing composite panels) utilizing Renault's 24 valve, 207 hp (152 kW) 3.0L V6 engine was coupled to a 6-speed transmission.
In the U.S. state of Utah, U.S. Route 89 (US-89) is a long north–south state highway spanning more than 502 miles (807.891 km) through the central part of the state. Between Provo and Brigham City, US-89 serves as a local road, paralleling (and occasionally concurring with) Interstate 15, but the portions from Arizona north to Provo and Brigham City northeast to Wyoming serve separate corridors. The former provides access to several national parks and Arizona, and the latter connects I-15 with Logan, the state's only Metropolitan Statistical Area not on the Interstate.
When US-89 was established in the state in 1926, the road initially extended north to US-91 in Spanish Fork. Following the extension of the former to the Canadian border, Interstate 15 was constructed roughly paralleling US-89 to the west and replacing US-91 south of Brigham City. During this process, US-89 was rerouted in southern Utah and northern Arizona with the old roadway becoming US-89A.
US-89 enters Utah from the south inside the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, about 7 miles (11 km) north of the Glen Canyon Dam, where it crosses the Colorado River near Page, Arizona. After leaving the recreation area and passing the small town of Big Water, the highway curves west through the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. US-89 stays near the monument's southern boundary, crossing the East Clark Bench and The Cockscomb and passing south of the Vermilion Cliffs of the Grand Staircase. At the city of Kanab, US-89 meets the north end of US-89A, an alternate route south into Arizona, and abruptly turns north and begins climbing the staircase. Here the Mount Carmel Scenic Byway begins; one of the Utah Scenic Byways, it stretches north to SR-12 at Bryce Canyon Junction. The Vermilion Cliffs are ascended via the canyon carved by Kanab Creek. Near the White Cliffs, US-89 meets SR-9 at Mt. Carmel Junction, where travelers can turn to reach Zion National Park. The final "step" is the Pink Cliffs, where the highway follows alongside the Virgin River to the highest point on US-89 in southern Utah and the east end of SR-14, a summit at Long Valley Junction (elevation 7450 feet/2300 m).
North from Long Valley Junction, US-89 descends through the valley of the Sevier River, meeting SR-12, a scenic highway that leads to Bryce Canyon National Park, at Bryce Canyon Junction, SR-143 in Panguitch, and SR-20 at Bear Valley Junction. As the highway continues north, the valley narrows significantly into the Circleville Canyon before opening out near the town of Circleville. In this part of the valley, the Sevier River is dammed to create the Piute Reservoir, and US-89 meets SR-62 near Kingston. North of Marysvale, the valley again narrows into the Sevier Canyon, which carries the river to its confluence with Clear Creek and US-89 to its overlap with Interstate 70, beginning at Sevier.
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. . . this article is about the original Monastery in Lhasa
Sera Monastery (Tibetan: སེ་ར་དགོན་པ, Wylie: se ra dgon pa "Wild Roses Monastery"; Chinese: 色拉寺; pinyin: Sèlā Sì) is one of the "great three" Gelug university monasteries of Tibet, located 2.01 km north of Lhasa and about 5 kilometres north of the Jokhang. The other two are Ganden Monastery and Drepung Monastery. The origin of its name is attributed to a fact that the site where the monastery was built was surrounded by wild roses in bloom.
The original Sera Monastery is responsible for some 19 hermitages, including four nunneries, which are all located in the foot hills north of Lhasa.
The Sera Monastery, as a complex of structures with the Great Assembly Hall and three colleges, was founded in 1419 by Jamchen Chojey of Sakya Yeshe of Zel Gungtang (1355–1435), a disciple of Je Tsongkhapa.
During the 1959 revolt in Lhasa, Sera monastery suffered severe damage, with its colleges destroyed and hundreds of monks killed. After the Dalai Lama took asylum in India, many of the monks of Sera who survived the attack moved to Bylakuppe in Mysore, India. After initial tribulations, they established a parallel Sera Monastery with Sera Me and Sera Je colleges and a Great Assembly Hall on similar lines to the original monastery, with help from the Government of India. There are now 3000 or more monks living in Sera, India and this community has also spread its missionary activities to several countries by establishing Dharma centres, propagating knowledge of Buddhism.
Sera Monastery in Tibet and its counterpart in Mysore, India are noted for their debate sessions.
BACKGROUND
The original Sera Monastery is a complex of structures founded in 1419 by Jamchen Chojey Sakya Yeshe of Zel Gungtang (1355–1435), a disciple of Je Tsongkhapa. Prior to establishing this monastery, Tsongkhapa, assisted by his disciples, had set up hermitages at higher elevations above Sera Utsé Hermitage.
The Sera complex is divided into two sectors by pathways; the eastern part contains the Great Assembly Hall and the dwellings and the western part has the well-known three colleges: the Sera Je Dratsang, the Sera Me Dratsang; and the Ngakpa Dratsang, all instituted by Tsongkhapa as monastic universities that catered to monks in the age range 8-70. All the structures within this complex formed a clockwise pilgrimage circuit, starting with the colleges (in the order stated), followed by the hall, the dwelling units and finally ending at the hermitage of Tsongkhapa above the Great Assembly Hall.
The Jé and Mé colleges were established to train monks, over a 20 year programme of tsennyi mtshan nyid grwa tshang (philosophical knowledge), which concludes with a geshe degree. The Ngakpa college, which predated the other two colleges, was exclusively devoted to the practice of tantric ritual. Before 1959, the administration of each college comprised an abbot with council of ten lamas for each college.
Over the years, the monastery developed into a hermitage where about 6000 monks resided. The monastery was one of the finest locations in Tibet to witness the debate sessions, which were held according to a fixed schedule. The monastery belongs to the Gelug Order and was one of the largest in Lhasa. In 2008, Sera had 550 monks in residence.
HISTORY
The history of the monastery is strongly connected to Master Lama Tsongkhapa (1357–1419), the founder of the Gelukpa Order, the much venerated and highly learned guru in Buddhist scriptures. It was under his divine tutelage that his disciple Jetsun Kunkhen Lodroe Rinchen Senge established the Sera Jey Monastery complex in the early 15th century AD. Kunkhyen Lodroe Rinchen Senge initially served as a teacher in the Drepung Monastery before he formed the Sera Jey. The religious legend narrated for how the site was chosen was a clairvoyant vision that Tsongkhapa had in which he saw the full text of Prajnaparamita's 20 slokas on Shunyata captioned in the sky. This psychic spell gave him a full insight into the Tsawasehrab (Fundamentals of Madhyamika or Shunyata) text. Further, he also perceived the "vision of a rain like "AA" characters descending from the sky". It was only 12 years later that one of his pupils, Jamchen Choje, fulfilled the prophecy of his guru by establishing the Sera Je as a seat of learning knowledge of the complete teachings and practices of the Mahayana tradition.
Providentially, the then King Nedong Dagpa Gyaltsen supported the noble venture with required finances and also, in 1419, performed the foundation laying ceremony for construction of the monastery. Further detailing with regard to the building development including installing sacred images/idols and other objects of worship were completed according to the supreme wishes of great Lama Tsongkhapa. The monastery soon came to be known as "the Seat of Theckchen ling (Mahayana Tradition)". Another version for the name 'Sera' that came to be prefixed with 'Monastery' was its location that was surrounded by raspberry shrubs called 'Sewa' in Tibetan, that formed like a 'Rawa' in Tibetan, meaning "Fence".
Post-1959 events.
The 14th Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 and sought asylum there. During the month of March of the same year the Sera Jey Monastery had been destroyed by bombardment, which resulted in death of hundreds of monks (in 1959, the count of monks living in Sera Jey was 5629), apart from destruction of ancient texts and loss of innumerable, invaluable, ancient and antique works of art. Many of those who survived (monks and common people) this onslaught by the Chinese fled to India, under severe winter weather conditions, across the Himalayas. Following this mass exodus of people from Tibet (including, a few hundred Sera Jey lamas, geshes and monks), when they arrived in India, they were resettled at Bylakuppe near Mysore, Karnataka state among many other locations spread across the country, as one of the exclusive Tibetan establishments with ready assistance forthcoming from the Government of India. It was in 1970 that the group of 197 Sera Jey monks with 103 of Sera Mey monks established a special monastery within the resettlement of Bylakuppe as a counterpart of the Tibetan Sera Jey Monastery. As none of the monks of the Ngagpa Dratsang (Tantric College) had survived the invasion, only the Sera Mey College and Sera Jey College were re-formed in India. The Bylakuppe Monastery now houses 5,000 Buddhist monks comprising some migrants and many other Tibetans who were not born in their ancestral homeland.
With forest land allotted by the Government of India, two arms of the Sera Monastery, representing the migrant monks of the Tibetan Sera Je and Sera Me colleges were established; 193 Sera je monks got 147.75 acres and 107 monks of Sera Me got an allotment of the balance area. Further, 38 tenements were built with grants by the Government of India for the Monks to reside and pursue their vocation of monkshood coupled with tilling the surrounding allotted land for raising food crops for survival. Well established as an organised Monastery with dedicated efforts of the monks, an Assembly Prayer Hall that could accommodate 1500 monks was also completed in 1978. This Monastery is now the nodal monastery, with its affiliation to several smaller monasteries spread across various regions in Tibet; its popularity could be gauged by the 3000 or more monks living here now. Encouraged by this success and noting the pressure on existing infrastructure, an additional, much larger and an impressive Assembly hall (measuring 2,162.3 square metres, 9.4 m high with 110 pillars) has been built that can accommodate 3500 monks to assemble for prayers. With this development, Sera has now two facets, the original “Tibetan Sera” and the Bylakuppe “New Sera” of the “Tibetan Diaspora” with the counterpart Jé, Mé monasteries, with the Ngakpa college counterpart also added recently. The Sera-India monk community of the Bylakuppe Monastery, has gone global with their missionary activity by establishing “dharma centers” in many parts the world, thus removing the cultural isolation of pre-1959 years in Tibet.
Sera, Tibet that housed more than 5,000 monks in 1959, though badly damaged following the invasion of Tibet and the 1959 Revolution, is still functional after restoration. In 2011, according to local sources, there are about 300 monks. The reason for this decline is attributed to the 2008 Tibetan unrest.
GEOGRAPHY
The monastery is located on the northern outskirts of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet Autonomous Region. As built in 1419, it encompassed an area of 28 acres. Its geographical location is at the base of Pubuchok mountain, also known as Tatipu Hill, located in the northern suburb of Lhasa City, which forms the watershed of the basins formed by Kyi Chi and Penpo Chu rivers.
ARCHITECTURE
The monastery complex, encompassing 28 acres of land, housed several institutions in its precincts. The structures of notability were the Coqen Hall Tsokchen (Great Assembly Hall), the three Zhacangs (colleges) and Kamcun (dormitory) also called Homdong Kangtsang. In the main hall, scriptures (scripted with gold powder), statues, scent cloth and murals were seen in profusion. The descriptions given here relate to the scenario that existed at the monastery prior to the 1959 invasion by China but most of the monasteries are stated to be since restored, though the strength of the monks are said to be small.
GREAT ASSEMBLY HALL
The Great Assembly Hall, the ‘Tsokchen' or 'Coqen Hall', dated to 1710, a four-storey structure to the north east of the monastery, facing east, is where several religious rituals and rites are conducted. The hall measured an area of 2,000 square metres built with 125 pillars (86 tall and 39 short columns) and was constructed by Lhazang Qan. The entry portico had ten columns. The five chapels in this building have statues or images of Maitreya, Shakyamuni, Arhats, Tsongkhapa, and Kwan-yin with one thousand hands and eleven faces. The ancient and delicately written scriptures ‘the Gangyur of Tripitaka’ also spelt 'Kangyur' (dated 1410) in 105 volumes (original 108 volumes) written in Tibetan is the treasured possession of the monastery. It is said that Chengzhu, Emperor of the Ming Dynasty presented these scriptures (printed on wood blocks with gold cover engraved in red lacquer and made in China), to Jamchen Chojey, the builder of the monastery.
The entrance to the hall was through a portico built on 10 columns. Large appliqué Thangkas were suspended from the ceiling on the side walls. A skylight at the centre provided the light in the hall during the day. Image of the founder of the monastery Jamchen Choje Shakya Yeshe was deified as the central image. Other deities installed were of Maitreya (5 metres height and gilded) flanked by statues of two lions, Dalai Lamas V, VII and XII, Tsongkhapa (with his favourite disciples), Chokyi Gyeltsen, Desi Sangye Gyatso and many more.
The three inner chapels, sequentially, are the Jampa Lhakhang, the Neten Lhakhang and Jigje Lhakhang. A 6 metres high image of Maitreya was deified in Jampa Lhakhang ensconced by Eight Bodhisattvas, the treasured Kagyur and guarded by Hayagriva and Acala at the entrance. Jigje Lhakhang houses the image of Bhairava with his consort and Shridevi and other protector deities.
On the second floor, there were three chapels: the Zhelre Lhakhang from where Maitreya could be seen embossed with a small Tsongkhapa on its heart; the Tu-je Chenpo Lhakhang that had an Avalokiteshvara with eleven faces (found at Pawangka), Tara and six–armed Mahakala. The idol of Shakyamuni Buddha flanked by images of Gelukpa Lamas were placed in the Shakyamuni Lhakhang.
The third and the fourth floors were used as private apartments for the Dalai Lamas and the preceptors of the Main Assembly Hall.
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My first attempt at a parallel build. Pre-made SS 28/32 clapton wire with 22 gauge SS. Came out to .12 ohms, my lowest build so far. Flavor was ok but doesn't seem as flavorful as fused claptons.
Blue Cheese Burger w/Chips
Duck Fat Fries w/Parmesan Ranch
Bacon Lollipops w/Parallel Chips
Cheesy Pulled Chicken Sandwich w/Chips
Dublin Statues-Parallel
In remembrance of the great famine in Ireland in the 1840-50s. One of several groups of sculptures on this theme - the figures are proportionately taller than normal- it is not the camera!
Saint Philip of Agira (also Aggira, Agirone, Agirya or Argira) was an early Christian confessor. There are two parallel stories of this saint which give to possible dates in which this saint lived. Traditionally, thorugh the writings of St. Athanasius, it is maintained that Philip of Agira is a saint of the 1st century, born in the year AD 40 in Cappadocia (modern Turkey) and died on the 12th of May, AD 103.Another recent study says to have been born of a Syrian father in Thrace on an unknown date in the 5th century whose elder brothers drowned whilst fishing. Philip was known as the "Apostle of the Sicilians", as he was the first Christian missionary to visit that island. Nothing else can be certainly stated about him.His feast day is May 12 and he is, naturally, patron saint of the city of Agira, Sicily and of the city of Ħaż-Żebbuġ, Malta. Philip is one of the patron saints of the United States Army Special Forces.
Filippo di Agira (Tracia, 396 circa – Agira, 12 maggio 453 circa) è stato un presbitero taumaturgo ed esorcista ed venerato come santo dalla Chiesa cattolica. Sulla sua identità e sulla sua vita vi è più di una versione.Secondo il monaco Eusebio, suo compagno ed agiografo, Filippo fu istruito fin da giovane nella fede cristiana ed imparò anche il siriaco. Trasferitosi a Roma con lo stesso Eusebio, ricevette l'ordinazione sacerdotale e l'incarico di recarsi in Sicilia per assistere nella fede la popolazione dell'isola.Giunse a Calatabiano, dove venne ben accolto dalla popolazione e ascoltato attentamente nella predica del vangelo. Lasciato Calatabiano proseguì per Agira dove continuò a predicare la parola di Cristo fino al giorno della sua morte.Stabilitosi nell'l'antica città di Agyrium (divenuta poi San Filippo di Agira ed oggi Agira in provincia di Enna), visse compiendo esorcismi e miracoli. Alla sua morte, sulla sua tomba fu eretta dapprima una chiesa e successivamente un monastero. La sua salma fu esumata ed esaminata nel 1625. Il suo culto è piuttosto diffuso nell'isola. Viene celebrato il 12 maggio
Calatabiano is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Catania in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 35 km northeast of Catania. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 5,286 and an area of 26.3 km².The municipality of Calatabiano contains the frazione (subdivision) Pasteria.Calatabiano borders the following municipalities: Castiglione di Sicilia, Fiumefreddo di Sicilia, Giardini-Naxos, Linguaglossa, Piedimonte Etneo, Taormina.
After a lengthy renovation, Cruyllas Castle of Calatabiano (situated between the Alcantara Valley and Etna and not far from Taormina and Naxos) is ready to welcome its visitors thanks to its splendid panorama Between the walls of the castle is enclosed the entire history of the Mediterranean. A procession of populations and cultures who, battling for strategic control of the area by way of the stronghold, have all contributed to the development and enlargement during the course of the centuries: from the Sicels to the Greeks, from the Byzantines to the Arabs; from the Normans to the Suebi/Suevi, until the settlement of the Cruyllas, in the Aragon period, during which the castle was at its maximum splendor.
Calatabiano è un comune italiano di 5.458 abitanti della provincia di Catania,Si trova a 62 metri d'altitudine e a meno di 3 chilometri dal mare Ionio. Il suo territorio, delimitato a nord dal corso del fiume Alcantara, è costituito da una fertile e ottimamente irrigata piana alluvionale e dalle retrostanti colline. Dista 40 chilometri da Catania e 59 chilometri da Messina.La popolazione è concentrata per circa il 75% nel centro capoluogo, e per la restante parte nella frazione di Lapide Pasteria.Calatabiano è un comune del Parco fluviale dell'Alcantara.Il suo territorio si trova sulla direttrice orientale sicula dei collegamenti stradali e ferroviari. Sono inoltre agevoli i collegamenti con l’entroterra alcantarino. È servito da una stazione ferroviaria.La storia di Calatabiano è strettamente collegata a quella del suo castello che si erge su un'altura a 160 metri d'altitudine, all'imboccatura meridionale della Valle dell'Alcantara. Con tutta probabilità, stante l'importanza strategica e militare del sito, una fortezza doveva già essere presente in epoca greca e forse addirittura sicula. A tal proposito lo Schubring sostenne che i Siculi dovevano tenere un caposaldo all'imboccatura della valle, di fronte al monte Tauro, nominato come Castello di Bidio, ma tale ipotesi non è mai stata suffragata dai reperti archeologici rinvenuti, che hanno invece datazione posteriore al II secolo.Il castello, nella sua conformazione attuale, e con l'annesso borgo collinare cinto da mura merlate, venne fondato dagli Arabi, che proprio dal territorio di Calatabiano mossero nel 902 alla conquista di Taormina. Lo stesso toponimo del paese è di chiara origine araba, derivando da قلعة, kalaat (castello) e 'al Bîan, probabile nome proprio del signore locale.Sotto il dominio normanno, regnando Ruggero II, nel 1135 Calatabiano venne elevata a baronia. Tra i vari signori che si succedettero nel corso dei secoli, il periodo più fulgido nella storia di Calatabiano si ebbe con la signoria dei Cruyllas. Famiglia di origine catalana, i Cruyllas ottennero la baronia nel 1396 tenendola per circa un secolo, ingrandendo il castello ed edificando la Chiesa del Santissimo Crocifisso. Esauritasi la successione per linea maschile questa continuò per linea femminile con il passaggio della signoria prima ai Moncada e poi ai Gravina, principi di Palagonia.Nel 1544 si ebbe la venuta del pirata Dragut che, sbarcato sul lido di San Marco, espugnò e saccheggiò il borgo. Nel 1677, a seguito della rivolta anti-spagnola di Messina i francesi assediarono lungamente il castello, venendo respinti dai 150 difensori spagnoli e poi sopraffatti dai soverchianti rinforzi.Il borgo e il castello vennero completamente abbandonati a seguito del Terremoto del Val di Noto del 1693, che danneggiò gravemente l'abitato. La popolazione si reinsediò ai piedi della collina da dove da qualche decennio insisteva già un piccolo insediamento, primo nucleo della Calatabiano moderna, che progressivamente si espanse sulla pianura.Nel 1813 il Parlamento Siciliano decretò la fine del feudalesimo nell'isola, elevando nello stesso anno il territorio di Calatabiano a comune autonomo, con i confini che ha mantenuto fino ad oggi.
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Cross-eyed stereograph! •Parallel Stereograph•
My first trial to make a cross-eyed parallel stereograph! :)
Parallèles...(EXPLORE)
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