Kailasa Temple: This Massive Hindu Temple Carved out of a Single Rock - Signs of Ancient Technological Prowess?
I want you to really understand what you are seeing here. Every structure, every opening, every carving was not placed there, it was carved directly out of single rock. It is notable for its vertical excavation. Carvers started at the top of the original rock and excavated downward.
The scale at which the work was undertaken is enormous. It covers twice the area of the Parthenon in Athens and is 1.5 times high, and it entailed removing 200,000 tonnes of rock. It is believed to have taken 7,000 labourers 150 years to complete the project. Yet, one of the greatest mysteries is that fact that there is no known location where all of the material that was excavated appears to have been placed.
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“I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and suffering. I am blessed with great desires to give of love and time, and find that people respond to this.”
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A Painful Pot - Johnson Tsang / Porcelain / L28 W20 H45 cm / 2013
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Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, Max Ernst
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