Category: united nations
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Sacred Garden
UNESCO World Heritage Site Lumbini, Nepal, the Birthplace of Lord Buddha has been inscribed on the world heritage list. This heritage site is of exceptional universal value which deserves protection for the benefit of humanity. King Ashoka’s Pilar The Devil and the Saint The lady in pink represent the saint, the figure in black represent…
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Lumbini Development Trust Survey
Lumbini is a Nepali town right at the border with India and is the place where Lord Buddha was born and raced as a child in accordance with Emperor Ashoka’s pillar/edict found in the archaeological record. I arrived at Lumbini during the third mass COVID-19 wave in India and some of the Buddhist monasteries were…
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World Peace Pagoda
Lumbini, Nepal. This Peace Pagoda has been built by Nipponzan Nyohoji Buddhist order founded by Most Venerable Nichi Dattsu Fujii of Japan through contribution of devotees in Nepal and Japan. The construction of the peace pagoda all over the world was initiated by the Most Venerable Fujii Guruji after feeling the tragic scene of atomic…
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Bhaktapur Durbar Square
This is basically a royal palace square with many Hindu temples in the traditional Nepali architectural style. The main square of the city, is a conglomeration of stone art, wood carving, and terracotta art and architectural showpieces. The Golden Gate, statue of King Bhupatindra Malla perching on the top of stone monoliths, National Art Gallery,…
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Boudhanath Stupa
After moving from Mexico to Nepal, during the Global Pandemic period of time, I found myself on a Buddhist pilgrimage at Boudhanath Stupa, Kathmandu Nepal, as part of my scientific research too. It was there when the Buddhist LAMA told me about my falcons and the relation they had with my pass lives as a…
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Petronas Towers
New Year’s Eve Celebrations 2023. The Petronas Towers at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia may not be the tallest sky scrapers in the world, like the Burj Khalifa sky scraper, but I think they are the most beautiful of all. A marvel of engineering and architecture the inspiration for their design had to come from no other…
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The Opera House, the Farmers, the Children, the Drone, and I
Skanderbeg Square, Tirana, Albania. I think this is my favorite place in Tirana, Albania. Here is where I learned to use my drone and I also discovered, as a STEM professor, that children have a natural affinity for drones, they love them. I used to fly my drone low and slowly around the words #TIRANA…
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The Temple of the Standing Buddha
Wat Intharawihan, Bangkok, Thailand. It is almost impossible to be aloud to get some drone footage in this area due to the heighten security guarding governmental buildings around the temple. So this is a very rare drone footage of the Standing Buddha in Bangkok, Thailand. I asked the Buddhist Lama in charge of the temple…
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Street Art Alley
Mexico City, Chaotic Art in times of Darkness. Mexico City is a very cultured city with street art of all kind all over the place, but there is a place where the young talented street artist can express themselves in the form of graffiti art and that place is call “Street Art Alley”. The paintings…
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The Chronicles of Georgia
Ones I had a dream that I was a Knight of the Order of Solomon, better known as the Knights Templar, and that I was traveling alongside a lake exactly like the one seen in this video. My role as a Knight Templar was that of a “military architect and siege engineer”, I had nothing…
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Hanoi’s Train Street “Zion Train”
As a teenager, I live in the Caribbean right in front of the beach, right in front of several surfing break points. Accompanying that surfers’ environment was the reggae music I always listen specially the one coming from my favorite musician and Rastafarian philosopher Bob Marley. When I first saw the trains at “Hanoi’s Train…