All wars, large and small scale, have had impacts on the built environments enmeshed in conflict. This is almost always an adverse reaction, often involving destruction, but can also include construction of defensive or other features. Damaged sites be redeveloped relatively quickly, though some persist for decades evidence damage may deliberately retained a range reasons. structures remain cen...

We described the body composition and nutrient intake of Buddhist vegetarians and compared the data with that of omnivores in South Korea. Vegetarian subjects were 54 Buddhist nuns, who adhered to a vegetarian diet in accordance with Buddhist teachings. We compared these finding with a group of 31 omnivore Catholic nuns who shared a similar lifestyle but different dietary pattern than those of ...

Although technical terms often represent unambiguous meanings, the crucial expression �emptiness' in Mahāyāna Buddhist traditions is likely to serve a soteriological function. The doctrine of emptiness seems to be intended to detach our linguistic expression from the unwholesome influence of illusory assumptions; assumptions of which we are not aware in our referential acts. Buddhist texts ofte...

10.4172/Neuropsychiatry.1000279 © 2017 pISSN 1758-2008 eISSN 1758-2016 Neuropsychiatry (London) (2017) 7(6), 781–787 781 1Department of Human Development and Psychology, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan 2Department of Psychiatry, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan 3Department of Chest Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan 4School of Medicine, Tzu Chi Un...

This paper research and discusses the ‘sustainable’ workflow heritage recording method of historic building information modelling (HBIM) for Chinese Tibetan architecture pagodas explains vital role to protect cultural relics. Considering Buddhist Pagoda in Yushu, Qinghai, China, this explores collaborative mechanism ideas between surveying scanning software, problems these two methods. Through ...

Flexibility is a concept associated with variable needs of human beings.Today transformable structures are used to meet human changeable demands with different purposes and functions such as facades, roofs, sunshades, etc.A Flexible structure must be able to change physically and adapt to predetermined conditions.To provide flexibility and adaptability,transformable systems are required to poss...

This paper investigates the architectural turn of largest Buddhist cave complex in late-medieval Dunhuang (in Northwest China) with a focus on contemporaneous exterior structures. The structures include timber facades that cover caves’ antechambers cut out from vertical cliff, timber-structured ante-halls ground, and earthen shrines pagodas cliff top. These structures, albeit mostly non-extant,...