Incredible ancient Hindu sculpture architecture and monuments

[Maula Jatt]

No, this is Brihadeeswara temple in Tanjore (Thanjavur) in Tamil Nadu

Lol some people really be making this into a tourist spot to visit in Karachi
With address on the internet and everything

I wonder if anyone actually followed that address for a weekend tourist spot to visit

https://m.facebook.com/karachi021/photos/shivaharkaray-or-karavipur-is-a-shakti-peeth-dedicated-to-the-hindu-goddess-durg/646812898810403/?_se_imp=0vBbPM4MpoO9vyPxa

 

[Paitoo]

Lol some people really be making this into a tourist spot to visit in Karachi
With address on the internet and everything

I wonder if anyone actually followed that address for a weekend tourist spot to visit

Happens. Once my wife and I were looking to visit some secluded churches in Goa. Did some R&D on google, narrowed down on one and set the navigation. Towards the end of the drive we realised something is wrong. We ended up inside a dockyard, and surprisingly no one stopped us. Maybe it was the confidence (out of ignorance )

 

[Maula Jatt]

@Suriya can we add Buddhist temples or it needs to be Hindu?
We have some very beautiful Buddhist temples here in Pak, we were a ancient Buddhist powerhouse and had whole Buddhist universities, temples and civillization here

 

[Joe Shearer]

No, this is Brihadeeswara temple in Tanjore (Thanjavur) in Tamil Nadu

Did it get deleted?

 

[Maula Jatt]

Did it get deleted?

I did but gave a Facebook link later on

 

[Joe Shearer]

I did but gave a Facebook link later on

Oh, OK.

 

[Paitoo]

@Sainthood 101 Don't see why it should be a problem, but I will leave it to the OP. Hindu, Buddhist and Jain temples have co-existed in the past, there photos can co-exist too! Here is a photo from my own trip to Ajanta and Ellora some 10 years back. The various cave temples you see in this photo are a mix of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain. Kings, especially in peninsular India patronised all religions of the time to keep their populations happy.

 

[Joe Shearer]

I did but gave a Facebook link later on

Oh, OK.

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Ellora caves, kailasa temple
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I don't think knowledge of ancient art and architecture exist today.
We may built another beautiful temple today e,g a new one at Ayodhya but I don't think it could match artistic intricacies of the old era.

There is a new Swaminarayan Temple in Gujarat, that is quite elaborate, but personally, I didn't much care for it.

The ISKCON people have built extensively at Mayapur, in West Bengal, but it reflects the heavy western orientation of that sect.

Incidentally, ISKCON are in a line of religious heritage that is quite authentic, however we may be taken aback by those very enthusiastic people who have discovered it in mid-life.

The best that I know of are the Birla temples in Calcutta and in Hyderabad, that are somehow much more satisfying in architectural terms than others.

I have pictures, but I think @Suriya should consent to their being put up.

 

[Maula Jatt]

@Sainthood 101 Don't see why it should be a problem. Hindu, Buddhist and Jain temples have co-existed in the past, there photos can co-exist too! Here is a photo from my own trip to Ajanta and Ellora some 10 years back. The various cave temples you see in this photo are a mix of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain. Kings, especially in peninsular India patronised all religions of the time to keep their populations happy.

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Alright @Suriya I'll delete it if you think it's off-topic
This is the oldest Buddhist temple in the world
older than anywhere in India, China or even Buddhist countries
Situated in Swat Khyber pakhtunkhwa

This may be one of the oldest Buddhist temples ever discovered

It was built within a few hundred years of the death of the founder of Buddhism, Siddhārtha Gautama.

www.livescience.com

 

[Maula Jatt]

Mohra moradu - Buddhist monastery near taxilla (Pindi/Islamabad)

 

[Suriya]

@Suriya can we add Buddhist temples or it needs to be Hindu?
We have some very beautiful Buddhist temples here in Pak, we were a ancient Buddhist powerhouse and had whole Buddhist universities, temples and civillization here

I would like to keep it only Hindu and Hinduism related. Adding Buddhist structures would mess it up. India has some exquisite old Jain temples still I didn't add them in this thread.

 

[Maula Jatt]

I would like to keep it only Hindu and Hinduism related. Adding Buddhist structures would mess it up. India has some exquisite old Jain temples still I didn't add them in this thread.

Alright buddy, no problem I'll stop

 

[Suriya]

Oh, OK.

There is a new Swaminarayan Temple in Gujarat, that is quite elaborate, but personally, I didn't much care for it.

The ISKCON people have built extensively at Mayapur, in West Bengal, but it reflects the heavy western orientation of that sect.

Incidentally, ISKCON are in a line of religious heritage that is quite authentic, however we may be taken aback by those very enthusiastic people who have discovered it in mid-life.

The best that I know of are the Birla temples in Calcutta and in Hyderabad, that are somehow much more satisfying in architectural terms than others.

I have pictures, but I think @Suriya should consent to their being put up.

Let's keep about old Hindu temples built before 100 years or before 20th century.

 

[satyamev]

Well, in Indonesia Prambanan temple is also not active if you mean in religious term, Hindu in Indonesia is concentrated in Bali island, Prambanan temples is more toward tourism.

Look the visitors are all Muslim...

I was in Bali in nov19.
It's more hindu than my present 98 % hindu town.
Hindu shrines all over the city. Hindu symbols in front of shops , on the ground, everywhere.
The roundabouts have massive sculptures from the ramayana and mahabharata.
The airport has sanskrit signs.
Most of the above would not be allowed in government controlled areas of secular India.
Buddhist sculptures are more acceptable in Indian airports, etc.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Let's keep about old Hindu temples built before 100 years or before 20th century.

Nothing that I know of that age. That is, pre-20th century, post say 18th.