Tag: temples
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Rock Cut Caves
The British photographer Don McCullin describes India as “the most visually exciting place in the world.” I feel that everyday while bicycling there. Yet somehow the rock cut caves, temples that have been meticulously carved out of or into the living rock, really brings this sentiment home. These interior spaces thrill me; partly it is…
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Shravanabelgola
The Basti (small townsite) of Shravanabelgola is considered the most ancient and prominent sacred place of the Jains in South India. It has also been referred to as “Dakshina-Kāśī,” or “Benaras (Varanasi) of the South.” The seat of several significant temples, it is also home to the world’s largest monolithic sculpture completed in 980 CE. Located…
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