Given a fiery upward inflection, it appears in the finials on major Indianized stone architecture and on the carved wooden gables of Burmese and Thai Buddhist halls.
"The officer told him, 'You cannot give directly to the people," said Tin Win, the village headman of the stricken city of Dedaye, who had been counting on the rice to feed 260 refugees who sleep in a large Buddhist prayer hall.
For the moment the place of worship is a room in a Buddhist prayer hall.
Another explanation for the relocation of the capital city may have been because Emperor Kammu wished to relocate the capital to an area with better transportation routes, and/or to escape the power of the Buddhist clergy (Hall 1993).
The plinths of Buddhist assembly halls, which existed near the solid monumental structures, have also been discovered.
The Ajanta Caves, 30 spellbinding Buddhist prayer halls and monasteries carved, as if by sorcery, into a horseshoe-shaped rock face in a mountainous region of India's Maharashtra state, 450km (280 miles) east of Mumbai, were 'discovered' by accident in 1819.
The Fei family of the town of Jinze, located just west of Shanghai, converted a mansion on their property into a Buddhist sutra-recitiation hall, and later built several other religious buildings around the hall.
Don't forget to throw in a few sake dens, gambling halls, and Buddhist temples in order to keep the population happy and productive, and to offset the influence of those pesky European missionaries who infiltrate via advanced commercial ports, trying to convert your provinces to Christianity.
In the high-rise district of Kowloon, Diamond Hill is the setting for Chi Lin Nunnery - a temple complex that encompasses a nunnery, temple halls housing Buddhist relics and Chinese gardens with lotus ponds.
