| --------------------------------click on the "show more" button---------------------------- Part name: "Amazing places from around the world" Thank you for watching this video, You can subscribe to this channel by pushing the "subscribe" button above the video, The story behind the photos: Photo number 10: The Hanging Temple is a temple built into a cliff (75 m or 246 ft above the ground) near Mount Heng, China. Built more than 1500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it includes Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian elements. The structure is kept in place with wooden crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. Photo number 9: Saint Basil's Cathedral, is a Russian Orthodox church erected on the Red Square in Moscow in 1555--61. Built on the order of Ivan the Terrible to commemorate the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan, it marks the geometric center of the city and the hub of its growth since the 14th century. It was the tallest building in Moscow until the completion of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower in 1600. Photo number 8: The Tiger's Nest is a prominent Himalayan Buddhist sacred site and temple complex, located in the cliff side of the upper Paro valley, Bhutan. A temple complex was first built in 1692, around the Taktsang Senge Samdup cave where Guru Padmasambhava is said to have meditated for three months in the 8th century. Padmasambhava is credited with introducing Buddhism to Bhutan and is the ... |
