Let's name the shrines!

[Himalia]

O right wasnt sure. No harm done. Looks like it has different meanings in different languages.

 

[Reboot]

Since confucianism seem to be in the game, the shrine would be the Temple to Confucius, based in RL in Qufu, Shandong:

http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/qufu/kongmiaoindex.htm

Chinese students (brought by their parents) go there to pray to Confucius for good results for their examinations. Figures.

 

[Dolemitetornado]

We've already run into some issues. Christianity has no shortage of special sites, but I can find NO sites mentioned at all for Hinduism, and for Daoism, the only one any text I can find mentions is Lao Tzu's birthplace, where a temple was built.

Oh, there's tons of sites for Hinduism, vato. One suggestion would be Varanasi, a holy city on the Ganges where people can escape the cycle of birth and death if they die there. There is also four sites in Uttar Pradesh, collectively referred to as the "Char Dam", where some of Indias sacred rivers leave the mountains. There is the newly re-re-re-reconstructed temple of Shiva in Somnath gujurat, which was razed by Muhammed of Ghazni, and many other Muslims afterwards, the Hindus just kept putting it back up. Trust me, there are TONS of Hindu sites to use.

 

[rhialto]

I never sincerely doubted that there were any Hindu sites, but I couldn't find a single one documented in any online sources. Surely they aren't that obscure?

 

[civilleader]

For Hinduism try Tirupati Temple.

 

[MiChello]

How about the Borobudur for Buddhism?

 

[shahreevar]

hi,

just a quick one....
KABBA (ka'baa) : the root of the word is kab. well something like that but i dont have arabic alphabet handy. kabba simply means Cube. hmmm......... well it looks like a Cube, dont it??? and i think KAb is the root for the word Cube as well.

peace out

 

[rhialto]

Actually, K?B is the root for cube (the question mark is a consonant better known as a glottal stop). KBB is the root for mother in law.
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[Lockesdonkey]

Actually, K?B is the root for cube (the question mark is a consonant better known as a glottal stop). KBB is the root for mother in law.
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How do you know so much about my (second, first, it depends on whether you ask my parents or grandparents) language?

 

[rhialto]

It happens to be closely related to my second language too.

 

[Lockesdonkey]

It happens to be closely related to my second language too.

Which would be...?

 

[Shivam]

To get a single holy shrine in Hinduism is a wasted effort- a decentralized religion has no fixed holy place.

As for Buddhism, i'd go for Bodh-gaya in Benaras- it's where Siddhartha attained enlightenment.

as for the Kaaba, the initial sound can be transliterated as either K or Q, depending on the system used. It's how the holy book is Koran and Quaran.

 

[Lockesdonkey]

To get a single holy shrine in Hinduism is a wasted effort- a decentralized religion has no fixed holy place.

As for Buddhism, i'd go for Bodh-gaya in Benaras- it's where Siddhartha attained enlightenment.

as for the Kaaba, the initial sound can be transliterated as either K or Q, depending on the system used. It's how the holy book is Koran and Quaran.

DO YOU SPEAK ARABIC?

It is a "K"! Not a "Q"! I KNOW THIS FOR A FACT! I SPEAK ARABIC! I HAVE FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER! MY GRANDFATHER GAVE ME ARABIC AND QUR'AN LESSONS FOR FOUR HOURS OF EVERY SATURDAY OF THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF MY LIFE! WHO DO YOU THINK THE ARABIC IS EXPERT HERE!?
[/RANT].

 

[Cuivienen]

Christianity: Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Islam: The Kaaba
Hinduism: Thirumala Temple (?)
Buddhism: Potala Palace
Daoism: ?
Confucianism: ?
Judaism: Solomon's Temple

 

[Shivam]

I speak arabic. and Aramaic. and Urdu. And Hindi.

get off it, bro. I'm a linguist by training. And if you're such a hardcore, then you know that the only way to really write the name of the holy shrine in Saudi Arabia is to use the arabic script. Why so angry?

 

[rhialto]

http://www.lajzar.co.uk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=civ:list_of_great_wonders#religious_wonders

Feel free to add to the list.

@Lockesdonkey
Anyway, my second language is Maltese, an offshoot of the urban maghreb dialects of arabic, apparently. But you need to chill out on the language transcription issue a little.

 

[Alo]

why is there so much confusion abt the hindu shrine?.....it should b Angkor Wat........90% of the inscriptions on its walls r from the Mahabharata, a hindu epic.....if u cannot have that (since now its buddhist)....then it should b Ayodhya....the birth place of Rama.