Thanks Empty for the reference. Very helpful. It was always said the
Maharishi said about in building for a big group meditation that we should
meditate under a Dome, as in the meditation should be under a dome. There was
always a nodding approval from those who seemed to know about the need for
having the building be a dome, as in having our group meditation under a dome.
-Buck in the Dome
---In FairfieldLife@{{emailDomain}}, <emptybill@...> wrote:
Buck,
You won't get much real knowledge by consulting the opinions found in a
freshman theme paper - maybe even a high-school freshman paper at that. (If you
get my meaning.)
The sources of the Dome derive from the vedi, the Vedic fire altar. This
formal influence extends down to the Buddhist Stupa and the derivative temple
architectures of India-Tibet-China-Japan. This also includes the two and
three-dimensional mandala-s found throughout Sino-Tibetan Buddhism.
There is no better source on the planet (or in English) than the text
Symbolism of the Stupa, written by Adrian Snodgrass, an Australian architect
and now a professor.
You can preview it here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=nzqK8dDCM0UC&pg=PA189&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=nzqK8dDCM0UC&pg=PA189&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
You may want to pay particular attention to:
Chapter 6: The Deployment of Space and the Sacrifice
Chapter 7: The Deployment of Space and the Solar Breath
Chapter 15: The Symbolism of the Dome
Read it and weep that you didn’t find this before.
