Website review: Hindu Temple Fractals
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KingBoy rated 17 months ago- Photoessay on the fractal nature (scale-invariant self-similarity) of Hindu temple architecture.
- hidekimorais rated 18 months ago
- Ideally, in the Hindu temple the sacred descends to earth and humans ascend to the spirtual realm. Collage by William J. Jackson
- Yamamushi rated 18 months ago
- From the page: "HINDU TEMPLE FRACTALS"
- schredder9 rated 19 months ago
- "As from a blazing fire thousands of sparks fly forth, each one looking self-similar to its source, So from the Eternal comes a great variety of things, and they all return to the Eternal finally." - Mundaka Upanishad II.1.1 In North India the superstructure is "a solid tower with curvilinear vertical ribs, bulging in the middle and ending in a very narrow necking covered by a distinct ribbed piece of round stone known as amalaka." Temples in South India (an area of about 20% of the subcontinent) typically have a more pyramid-shaped tower, composed of "gradually receding stories divided by horizontal bands, and ending in a dome... or barrel-shaped ridge." South Indian Dravidian culture was already highly evolved before Sanskritic influences arrived from the North-- this accounts for the different styles. In the South tall gateway towers (called gopuras) form entrances to the temple compound; they attained a greater height than the temple superstructure. South Indian style temple (left) and North Indian style temple (right).
- Thomas-Jefferson rated 19 months ago
- Ideally, in the Hindu temple the sacred descends to earth and humans ascend to the spirtual realm.
- alusiva rated 20 months ago
- "Thus, reflection on the fractal qualities of the architecture makes Hinduism's grasp of the whole, and Hinduism's ultimate vision, more comprehensible. "Such an understanding of monumental form by the ritual encompassing movement is a realization as much by the eye as within one's whole living person in motion."(34) Thus, there is made available a holistic progression toward the goal of Hinduism--oneness-- involving the whole person, eyes envisioning, mind devotedly intent, legs taking steps, hands in prayers, and so on. Also, the repeated motifs carry associations with the cyclical time scheme of Hindu worldviews. "This overlapping of cycles of time and repetition of cosmic eras finds visual expression in the forms of the temple, where architectural and sculptural motifs repeatedly appear in different sizes in different parts of the building."(35) This resonance of self-similar geometry and multiple cycles of time is another reason for recursion in Hindu designs. Hindu intuitions that the timebound cosmos is cyclical-- on vast scales the four cosmic ages wheel round and round, and on a smaller scale individuals are born again and again, as well. There are seasons, cycles of the moon, cycles of day and night, cycles of breath... "
