Sentence examples for hillside temple from inspiring English sources

Without funds from the Black Dragon's hillside temple, in a gully behind the village, the school would not exist.

The garden, which is dedicated to the five major world religions, is a quirky mix of religious statues, a reliquary for some of Mohandas K. Gandhi's ashes, a chapel in a windmill, and a white-domed hillside temple, all amid a perfumed Technicolor landscape of flowers, wildlife and artificial waterfalls.

Inside the hillside temple is an intricately carved wooden alter.

The members of the team start out among the gorgeous hillside temples of northern Bhutan, where they meet the locals and get a blessing that requires drinking alcohol from a human skull.

There are hillside Taoist temples that include the Po Lin Monastery, and the Big Buddha, which weighs as much as a jumbo jet; ancient fishing villages built on stilts; miles of fine beaches; and an opportunity to track down the rare and endangered pink dolphins on boat excursions.

A group of archaeologists from the University of California, Berkeley, which began work at Nemea in 1973, discovered the remains of a stadium on a hillside near the temple.

He allows people to dump the irradiated soil from their gardens on the hillside behind his temple, where it will be buried and covered with zeolite.

About three-quarters of the way around the lake, I was confronted with a turning point: I could select either the difficult path of virtue, up the steep hillside to the Temple of Apollo, or the easy path of vice, which hugged the flat shore and led straight toward a specimen California sequoia.

Shades of red, vermilion and gold light up forested hillsides, shrine and temple grounds, public gardens and city avenues all over the country.

Since its dedication 12 years ago on a hillside tract, the Hsi Lai temple has never been an obscure religious site.

PERCHED on a remote hillside, the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple has become a flashpoint for Thai-Cambodian relations.