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2 Citations
13,888 Views
37 Pages

A Study of United Temple in Singapore—Analysis of Union from the Perspective of Sub-Temple

  • Guan Thye Hue,
  • Yidan Wang,
  • Kenneth Dean,
  • Ruo Lin,
  • Chang Tang,
  • Juhn Khai Klan Choo,
  • Yilin Liu,
  • Wei Kai Kui,
  • Weikai Dong and
  • Caroline Chia
  • + 1 author

28 June 2022

This paper attempts to examine the formation path of the United Temple. Since research on the United Temple has focused more on its organization and religious practice in contemporary Singapore, the paper looks at the sub-temples under the Singapore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,960 Views
12 Pages

6 February 2020

Was the Yahweh temple on Mount Gerizim modelled after the temple in Jerusalem? This question is important for our understanding of the sanctuary on Mount Gerizim and the people who worshipped there in the Persian and Hellenistic period; if the Gerizi...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,861 Views
11 Pages

The Temple Grandin Genome: Comprehensive Analysis in a Scientist with High-Functioning Autism

  • Rena J. Vanzo,
  • Aparna Prasad,
  • Lauren Staunch,
  • Charles H. Hensel,
  • Moises A. Serrano,
  • E. Robert Wassman,
  • Alexander Kaplun,
  • Temple Grandin and
  • Richard G. Boles

29 December 2020

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heterogeneous condition with a complex genetic etiology. The objective of this study is to identify the complex genetic factors that underlie the ASD phenotype and other clinical features of Professor Temple Grandi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
10,522 Views
71 Pages

15 December 2021

Yingshen saishe or saishe is a general name for all types of temple festivals held to offer sacrifices to deities of local communities. With its roots traceable to ancient shamanic beliefs and practices, saishe demonstrates itself as a closely i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
18,308 Views
17 Pages

The Temple of Solomon in Iron Age Context

  • Yosef Garfinkel and
  • Madeleine Mumcuoglu

15 March 2019

1 Kings preserves a long and detailed description of the construction of a temple and palace in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the 10th century BCE. Previous generations of scholars accepted this description as an authentic account. Accordingly, much l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,904 Views
22 Pages

30 December 2024

As a model of ancient Chinese architecture, Jin Ancestral Temple’s spatial layout and functional hierarchy reflect its profound cultural connotations and historical evolution. This paper systematically studies Jin Ancestral Temple from the pers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,652 Views
15 Pages

Ancient temple heritage space is a subcategory of integrated spaces with profound religious architecture, culture, and landscape. The temporal and spatial characteristics, spatial layouts, and functionalities of ancient temples are gradually transfor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,555 Views
19 Pages

10 April 2020

As demand for temple food has significantly grown, this study’s objective was to conduct a market segmentation analysis of temple food consumer motives in order to develop effective marketing strategies. The study identified six motives specifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,666 Views
15 Pages

11 February 2022

The sacrificial ritual to Mount Yi (Yishan 沂山) or the Eastern Stronghold (Dongzhen 東鎮) was included in the traditional Chinese state ritual system to mountain and water gods, and therefore, originally, it was a Confucian r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,997 Views
14 Pages

26 March 2024

Ancient texts dedicating or commemorating temples that can be associated with archaeological remains such as architecture and inscriptions, along with identifiable kings who built or commemorated those temples and the specification of the elapsed num...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,708 Views
7 Pages

31 January 2018

Hwangnyongsa Temple (HT) in South Korea belongs to the Gyeongju Historic Areas, designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. The temple was destroyed by fire in AD 1238 and today there are few traces left, however the government is seeking to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
12,506 Views
34 Pages

10 September 2018

Scholarship abounds on contemporary Hindu food offerings, yet there is scant literature treating the history of food in Hinduism beyond topics of food restrictions, purity, and food as medicine. A virtually unexplored archive is Hindu temple epigraph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,262 Views
18 Pages

31 August 2025

In contemporary Korea, particularly within the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, temple revenue relies on two primary sources: donations and production activities. With declining religious participation, donations alone are no longer sufficient for tem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6,924 Views
9 Pages

10 July 2020

Shui Wei Sheng Niang (水尾圣娘) Temple is located within a united temple at 109a, Hougang Avenue 5, Singapore. Shui Wei Sheng Niang is a Hainanese goddess, the worship of whom is widespread in Hainanese communities in South East Asia. This paper examines...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,140 Views
15 Pages

4 April 2023

Most interpretations of the Temple and Torah in the Gospel of Mark have held a negative view toward the Jewish institutions, declaring that the old has been replaced by the new, meaning Jesus is the new Temple and the Church has replaced the Jewish p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,458 Views
17 Pages

24 October 2024

Buffer zone delineation often extends from the outermost edge of a site boundary for a specific distance. This study proposes a novel approach to determining the visual buffer for the temple town of Chiang Mai city. Adjacent Visual Buffer (AVB) was d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6,932 Views
22 Pages

29 February 2024

Wang Lingguan is a significant deity in Chinese Daoist beliefs and folk worship. His belief’s formation and proliferation are rooted in specific spatial contexts. This paper introduces a spatial perspective to provide a fresh interpretation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,616 Views
15 Pages

31 March 2022

Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalisher’s messianic innovations asserted the centrality of a renewal of offerings on the altar to the creation of a linear path to redemption. Despite the common convention, his ideas were not disregarded by his peers and foll...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,799 Views
17 Pages

11 June 2024

The sympathetic restoration and conservation of built cultural heritage play a significant role in the management and preparedness for future climate scenarios by facilitating adaptive reuse, enhancing cultural resilience, preserving traditional know...

  • Article
  • Open Access
154 Views
22 Pages

6 March 2026

The Goddess Temple at Niuheliang, located in Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, is the earliest known temple excavated in China, offering profound insights into Neolithic religious architecture. Built during the Neolithic era, this sacred site reflect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,234 Views
14 Pages

Material and Microstructure Analysis of Wood Color Paintings from Shaanxi Cangjie Temple, China

  • Dan Huang,
  • Kezhu Han,
  • Gele Teri,
  • Cong Cheng,
  • Yunpeng Qi and
  • Yuhu Li

Cangjie Temple was built to commemorate Cangjie, the legendary inventor of Chinese characters. It stands as one of the few remaining temples in China dedicated to the invention and creation of writing. In this study, the material properties of wooden...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,081 Views
22 Pages

5 October 2025

This paper presents the results of the 2010–23 excavations of the southeastern sector of the Iron II temple at Khirbat Ataruz, Jordan, revealing a purpose-built kitchen complex and a rock-cut libation and animal slaughter feature. Abundant anim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,646 Views
11 Pages

Anyuan Temple, constructed in the 29th year of the Qing Dynasty (1764), serves as a repository of numerous Sanskrit inscriptions and Hexi color paintings from the Qing era. Among its collections, the green Tara Buddha statue, exquisitely carved from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,756 Views
18 Pages

25 July 2022

This study examines the temple networks of the 19th-century Chinese community leader See Boon Tiong (薛文仲) in Singapore and Malacca in order to cognize his rising influence in both places. In the early years of his c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,200 Views
19 Pages

15 April 2022

Excavations of the Roman temple at Horvat Omrit, situated in the foothills of Mount Hermon and the Golan, yielded terracotta figurines dated from the first century BC—first century AD. Some 100 fragments of figurines portray young children stan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,280 Views
11 Pages

13 August 2021

In ancient Mesopotamia, the functions of the temple were manifold. It could operate as an administrative center, as a center of learning, as a place of jurisdiction, as a center for healing, and as an economic institution, as indicated in both textua...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,324 Views
12 Pages

17 January 2020

Personal care products and cosmetics have been identified as major sources of paraben exposure among humans. However, the contribution of dietary factors has not been well understood. We recruited temple stay participants (n = 25) who followed a stri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,584 Views
12 Pages

5 April 2020

This article examines how the literary evidence corroborates with the visual evidence for the unusual presence of Brahmā with the Buddha at the Ajapāla banyan tree of the goatherd symbolizing the Fifth of the Seven Weeks after the Enlightenment of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,740 Views
18 Pages

2 March 2022

In response to the development of religious personalization, the old marketing strategies of most religious destinations have been unable to effectively promote their popularity in modern times. This article deeply explored how to use contemporary ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,869 Views
23 Pages

8 February 2024

After the Industrial Revolution, new technologies and architectural forms gradually replaced China’s wooden construction system, which had lasted for thousands of years. The architectural narrative also turned a new page. As pieces of architect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,975 Views
15 Pages

29 September 2023

Zen practice is often associated with aloof silence and introspection. However, any visitor to a Japanese Zen training temple will be surprised by the abundance and richness of the acoustic environment. In effect, every moment of the training schedul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,831 Views
16 Pages

2 October 2019

The Mahavira Hall of the Jade Buddha Temple in Shanghai, China is a century-old traditional timber structure with a post-and-lintel construction. To improve the temple’s architectural layout and enhance the lintel structural integrity, the Maha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
312 Views
21 Pages

15 February 2026

Bronze (Cu-Sn) alloys have long been used as the standard material for constructing temple bells because of their superior strength and acoustic properties. However, due to the rising cost of tin, alternative materials for the production of temple be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,630 Views
23 Pages

17 July 2023

The funeral protocol of Buddhist monks is an important part of the rituals of Han Buddhism. The monks’ funeral rituals were recorded in detail in the Monastic Rules (清规) of Chan. The funeral of Chinese Buddhism monks after the Son...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
11,558 Views
15 Pages

19 August 2023

The forehead and temporal region are frequent areas of skin cancer development. After tumor removal, reconstruction must be performed, maintaining the frontal–temporal line of the scalp and symmetry of the eyebrows in an attempt to hide the scars wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,056 Views
14 Pages

17 January 2022

This study was based on the perspectives of tourists, with data obtained through a questionnaire survey of users of the Kaiyuan Temple Scenic Area in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China. Through statistical evaluation and principal component analys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
14,668 Views
20 Pages

Applying Geomatics Techniques for Documenting Heritage Buildings in Aswan Region, Egypt: A Case Study of the Temple of Abu Simbel

  • AbdElhamid Elbshbeshi,
  • Ahmed Gomaa,
  • Abdelmonem Mohamed,
  • Amal Othman,
  • Ismael M. Ibraheem and
  • Hosni Ghazala

16 January 2023

It has recently become more popular to involve 3-D modeling and digital documentation in the conservation and restoration of heritage sites. The main objective of the current study is to develop a digital documentation process using laser scanning fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,591 Views
25 Pages

The Temple of Athena is one of the main sacred areas of the Greek–Roman settlement of Poseidonia-Paestum (southern Italy). Several archaeological excavations were carried out here between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Unfortu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
496 Views
17 Pages

9 December 2025

Currently, there remains a lack of systematic quantitative analysis of the acoustic impact mechanism of ancestral temple theatres in relation to their core function of opera performance. This paper takes the Zhaomutang—a typical ancestral templ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,766 Views
16 Pages

20 December 2023

The Kangxi Southern Inspection Tours strengthened the Qing Dynasty’s control over Jiangnan Buddhism, thereby promoting the standardization and officialization of Jiangnan temples and externalizing imperial power through images and physical spac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
998 Views
31 Pages

3 October 2025

With the rapid development of urbanization and tourism in China, increasing attention has been paid to the protection and utilization of historical and cultural heritage, while tourists’ demands for travel experiences have gradually shifted tow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
10,982 Views
21 Pages

15 January 2019

Recently, debates on authenticity in the West and China have attracted attention of critical heritage studies. This paper aims to better understand how Western Authorized Heritage Discourse (AHD) influences local heritage practice in China. This pape...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,680 Views
11 Pages

Multi-Analytical Research on the Caisson Painting of Dayu Temple in Hancheng, Shaanxi, China

  • Jiaxin Li,
  • Bingjie Mai,
  • Peng Fu,
  • Gele Teri,
  • Yanli Li,
  • Jing Cao,
  • Yuhu Li and
  • Juanli Wang

9 November 2021

In this research, the caisson painting of Dayu Temple in Hancheng, Shaanxi, China, was analyzed via a multi-analytical methodology, using a pH meter, an ultra-depth-of-field optical microscope, a scanning electron microscope-energy dispersive spectro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,708 Views
14 Pages

Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of an Early 20th Century English Painted Organ Case by Temple Moore

  • Christopher Brooke,
  • Howell Edwards,
  • Peter Vandenabeele,
  • Sylvia Lycke and
  • Michelle Pepper

21 October 2020

An organ case from Lincoln, England, designed by the architect Temple Moore in 1907 was examined during conservation work using Raman spectroscopy in order to analyze the decorative paint composition. Samples from the six principal colours were extra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
819 Views
23 Pages

17 June 2025

During their evolution, Sino-Tibetan temples have been influenced by multiple factors, including history, geography, and climate, resulting in a variety of distinctive spatial layouts. Through performance simulations, many traditional construction me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
839 Views
20 Pages

5 November 2025

Focusing on Jingju Temple (淨居寺) in Jinan, Shandong Province, from 1920 to 1948, this paper examines the complex interactions among Chinese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, and governmental authorities. As one of the key religious sit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,484 Views
20 Pages

12 May 2022

Researchers within New Testament Studies have attempted in recent years to articulate the multifaceted identity of a broad discipline. The place of New Testament Theology (NTT) remains disputed within the guild. Some would like to remove NTT from fie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,928 Views
28 Pages

4 April 2023

During the ten years from Wanli 28 to 38 (1600–1610), Hanshan Deqing, then an exiled leading Buddhist master, managed to launch large-scale reforms in Nanhua temple in an attempt to reinvigorate the ancestral temple of Chan Buddhism. Strategica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,827 Views
17 Pages

26 July 2022

Many early Christian and late Second Temple texts describe deceit as impurity. In this article, I delineate the development of this discourse and argue that it derived its power from several characteristics: mixing deceit impurity with other types of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,671 Views
18 Pages

13 July 2018

We have developed an interface (mouthwitch) for a head-mounted type camera with which pictures can be taken with a head-mounted camera, hands-free, simply by “opening your mouth continuously for approximately one second and then closing it agai...

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