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Field Work 1.

  Hindu temples Picture Gallery
 

Place: North-India

Time: 21st June 1995 – 20th August

Goal: Preparatory exploration for Field Work 2. (Getting familiar with cross cultural Hindu and Buddhist religious phenomena.)

Participants: Bence Tarr & Daniel Tarr

Itinerary

 
· New Delhi - {New Delhi - Capital of India}
· New Delhi ® Jammu - {® Jammu & Kashmir state: Jammu  - Rambireswar temple}
· Jammu ® Shrinagar - {® Kashmir : Shrinagar = Capital of Kashmir}

· Pahal Gam

- {Muslim mountain village}
· Shrinagar ® Kargil - {Crossing the Himalayas - Kargil: Muslim-Buddhist border}

Ladakh (Western-Tibet)

· Kargil ® Leh - {Leh = Capital of Ladakh: Tsemo & Sankar gompa, palace}

· Tikse

- {Tikse gompa : the biggest monastery in Ladakh+big library}
 

· Spitok

- {Spitok gompa : thousand years old temple (Gonkhang)}

· Choglamsar

- {Summer residence of the Dalai Lama + birthday celebration}

· Hemis

- {Hemis gompa : the most important monastery in Ladakh + cham-dance}

· Shey

- {Shey gompa and palace : 600 years old summer palace of the Ladakhi kings}
· Leh ® Keylong - {Keylong gompa}
· Keylong ® Manali - {Crossing the Himalayas - Manali : Buddhist-Hindu border – Dhungri temple & Gadhan gompa }

· Vhasist

- {Vashisht Muni temple – sacred baths and dhu ascetics}
Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh (North India)
· Manali ® Dharamsala - {Dharamsala : the residence of the Dalai Lama – Buddhist monasteries}
· Dharamsala ® Amritsar - {Amritsar : center of Sikhism ; holy pilgrimage site – The Golden Temple}

· Amritsar ® Varanasi *  

- {Varanasi (Benares) : the most holy Hindu city – burning ghats, temples and ashrams & sădhu ascetics}

· Sarnath

- {Buddhist holy pilgrimage site – Mulgandha Kuti Vihar temple}
 
· Khajuraho** ® Agra*** - {Agra : ‘The Heart of India’ – Taj Mahal}

· Fatehpur Sikri

- {once the capital of the Mogul empire – intact ancient city}

· Mathura

- {Mathura : Hindu holy pilgrimage site – the birthplace of Krishna}

· Vrindaban

- {Vrindaban : Hindu holy pilgrimage site – Krishna lived here}
Bihar (North India)
· Varanasi* ® Bodhgaya - {Bodhgaya : Buddhist holy pilgrimage site – ‘The Tree of Enlightment’}

[·® Gaya]

- {North-Indian avarage city}

[·® Satna]

- {dirty little town at the end of nowhere}

Madhya Pradesh (Central India)

· Satna ® Khajuraho** - {Khajuraho : (was) important Tantric center – sex-temples}

Rajasthan (North India)

· Agra*** ® Jaipur - {Jaipur : the capital of Rajasthan – ‘The Pink City’}

· Amber

- {Amber : once a Mogul capital – Amber palace}
· Jaipur ® Udaipur - {Udaipur : Mogul palace-city – Lake Pichola}
Gujarat (Central India)
· Udaipur ® Ahmedabad - {Ahmedabad : the capital of Gujarat – ‘The City of Dust’ – Muslim center}
Maharashtra (Central India)
· Ahmedabad ® Aurangabad - {Aurangabad : the capital of Northern-Maharashstra – nearby Buddhist and Jaina cave-temples}

· Ellora

- {Ellora : Buddhist, Hindu and Jaina cave-temples}

· Ajanta

- {Ajanta : Buddhist cave-temples}
· Aurangabad ® Bombay - {Bombay : the capital of Maharashstra(was) a părsi center}

· Elephanta

- {the island of Elephanta : Hindu cave-temples}

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Hindu Temples in India

I have studied Hindu religious phenomenon in the following 46 holy temples:

 
 
Lakshmi Narayam - Delhi 
Raghunath - Jammu
Rambireswar - Jammu
Dhungri Mahimba - Manali {UP}
Vashisht Muni Rama - Vashisht {UP}
 
Varanasi (Benares) temples
 
Vishvanath
Durga
Tulsi Manas
 
 
Bharat Mata
Manikarnika Ghat
Harishchandra Ghat
 
 
Mulgandha Kuti Vihar - Sarnath {UP}
Shankaracharya Math - Bodhgaya {Bihar}
 
Khajuraho temples
 
Matangesvara
Lakshmi
Lakshmana
 
 
Varaha
Nandi
Vishvanath
 
 
 
 
Chitragupta
Devi Jagadamba
Mahadeva
Kandariya Mahadev
Chausath Yogini
 
 
Vamana
Javari
Brahma
Ghantai
 
 
Adinath
Parsvanath
Shanti Nath
Duladeo
 
Mathura and Vrindavan temples
 
Shri Krishna Janmbhoomi
Vishram Ghat
Dwarkadheesh
Rangaji
 
 
Govind Dev
Krishna Balaram
Nidhi Van
Radha Ballabh
 
 
Bankey Bihari
Madan Mohan
Pagal Baba
Gita Mandir
 
 
Jagdish - Udaipur
Shiva Trimurti - Elephanta
 

 

I have also studied Hindu religious behavior in more than a 116 Hindu temples in Nepal.  ]Interested? Check it out...
I have also visited more than a 40 Buddhist monasteries in Western-Tibet.  ]Interested? Check it out...

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