REACTION REPORT BUDDHISM David Destefano – david.destefano@mymail.barry.edu THE 352 ML THEOLOGY REACTION REPORT BUDDHISM Buddhist Service at Wat Punyawanaram Temple My choice for the reaction portion to my visit to a Thai Buddhist service. I chose a local Thai Buddhist temple to attend for a service - Wat Punyawanaram in Melbourne. The temple was putting on a service called Loi Krathong. According to ThaiWorldView.com, “Loy Kratong is as old as Thai heritage and represents a close bond…
Temple Grandin has become widely known for her advocacy of autism and throughout the book describes medications, new treatment, and advice for teaching and mentoring those with autism. However, treatment can be controversial, overwhelming for a family and provide a false hope for a total cure. Grandin explains that there are many new drug treatments that can be helpful for those with autism, especially for problems that occur after puberty. However, she explains many medical professionals do not…
The artwork I decided to do for this essay as you can see by the title is called “China Monument: Temple of Heaven” by Wenda Gu and was created in 1998. The artworks medium is known as mixed media, which is known as, “the integrated use of different forms of media, esp within the art.”(in-text). In this artwork the media shows projects of texts and represents the spiritual aspect of it (in-text). The artwork has a mix of hair intertwined with different texts from all over the world. Gu is trying…
Period 5-6 A different tomorrow: Temple Grandin “She’s my daughter!” I yelled at Jack. “I’m not going to disown her!” I and Jack were, yet again, having another one of our daily fights about Temple. Temple wasn’t the average two year old that would hug me every day or say ‘I love you’. But I loved her. She was my daughter. Temple was always a handful. Since the day she was born, she would color on the walls and pee on the floors…
4.1 Discussion on Symbolism by analysing the temple forms: 4.1.1 2D Formation: 2D formation of a temple means the formation of plan of the temple. There are certain symbolic patterns followed by the craftsmen and architects of these awe inspiring temples. Some of the depictions of those symbolic patterns are hereby discussed in the following section. 4.1.1.1 The Temple and the Yantra: The main three required thing for worship is Yantra, Mantra and Tantra. There are several Yantras in Hindu…
felt that they are two different kinds of religions and I had no idea what it really was. My group consisted of myself, Jett, Bill and Joe we decided to go to the Hindu Temple of Southwest Florida and St. Hilarys. The Hindu Temple of Southwest Florida has three main deities which are the focus of the temple. The deities of this temple are Ganesh, Krishna, and Shiva which was very interesting because I was expecting to see Brahma the supreme god of Hinduism. There were other gods that I felt…
In the Hellenistic Era of Greek Art, many sculptures featured dramatic, emotional, and theatrical sculptures. Specifically, the Winged Nike or The Nike Of Samothrace is a sculpture that represents victory and the deity Nike. The sculpture is presented on a base that is a prow of a ship with the goddess atop. The original placement was “…a hillside niche high above the theater in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods of Samothrace…” (Cothren, Stockstad). Her stance is powerful; her right leg pushed…
El Castillo temple at Chichen, Itza, is known for the temple and structure you see on the outside but is hardly known for what is on the inside or underneath. In recent studies archeologist have discovered another smaller temple inside the original El Castillo temple. To find the other pyramid inside archeologist have used a modern electrical imagined technology called tri-dimensional electric resistivity tomography also known as ERT-3D. The “first structure may be in the "pure Maya" style from…
influenced by both pop art and the street art of the early 1980’s. Excavating the Temple of the New Gods utilizes the combination of mediums and symbolic representations to show the belittlement of native cultures caused by a corrupt catholic religion. Through the use of repetitive symbols in his groups of “history” works, Wojnarowicz compels the viewer to take a closer look into what we accept as true. Excavating the Temple of the New Gods through provocative imagery represents Wojnarowicz’s…
In purpose, Charlotte Temple and Franklin’s autobiogaphy are similar. They both attempt to teach people how live better lives and improve morally. But Rowson uses the story of Charlotte to warn readers away from what she thinks is morally wrong. Benjamin Franklin uses himself as an example of what to do right and creates a systematic method acheive moral perfection. In tone Charlotte Temple is fluterring and frilly. It appears overly complicated and difficult to read. She flutters around the…