Buddhist temple

Illicium religiosum, I. anisatum. Highly toxic Japanese variant of the safe plant, Chinese star anise (/. verum). All parts of the plant, particularly the seeds, are poisonous, causing vomiting and epileptiform convulsions of the type caused by picrotoxin, with dilated pupil and cyanosis. Kills by effects on respiratory and cardiovascular centres in medulla. Regarded as a sacred plant and found growing around Buddhist temples and graveyards. 

The tyranny of the method. Participatory methods like those listed above might silence or exclude others that have advantages participatory methods cannot provide. For example, participatory methods introduced in BaU, Indonesia, ignored a traditional governance system located in Buddhist temples with dire consequences for water distribution and sustainable farming (Ramaswami et al. 2007)... 

Salmon, L. G., C. S. Christoforou, and G. R. Cass, Airborne Pollutants in the Buddhist Cave Temples at the Yungang Grottoes, China, Environ. Sci. Technol., 28, 805-811 (1994). 

Tantra appears in its definitive form around the 4th century, but its beginnings seem to reach back much earlier. Elements of tantric thought had already pervaded the south by the time of Tirumular, as they had seeped into yogic theory and practice at some antecedent time and even impacted temple ritual and the budding bhakti cults. Tantra was more deeply rooted in a fluid set of symbolic constructs than a static enunciation of doctrine. It represents a profound refinement of the symbol system of Hindu-Buddhist South Asia. It s emphasis on the experiential aspects of the individual s religious experience collided with the Shaivite orthodoxy like the Gnostic heresy did with the early Christian Church. 

So Kyoto at least, the Rome of Japan, founded in 793, famous for silk and cloisonnd, a center of the Buddhist and Shinto religions with hundreds of historic temples and shrines, would be spared, though Groves would continue to test his superior s resolve in the weeks to come. The Imperial Palace in Tokyo had been similarly spared even as Tokyo was laid waste around it. There were still limits to the destructiveness of war the weapons were still modest enough to allow such fine discriminations. 

The practice of variolation is said to have been used in Africa in ancient times, and may have been practiced by Buddhist monks at the Mount E Mei temple in Sichuan province sometime during the Renzong dynasty (1022-63). These monks were said to have originally learned the procedure from the Tibetans, who had earlier been taught by Indians. By the 1500s, variolation was definitively mentioned in Chinese medical texts. 

Thus it s no wonder that game development studios across the world, one by one, have been converted into temples for accidental Buddhist. 

LobdeU, W. (2002). For O.C. Buddhists, a timely temple. Los Angeles Times October 26. Retrieved May 14,2009, from http //articles.latimes.eom/2002/oct/26/local/me-buddhist26... 

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