{"id":6434,"date":"2009-07-17T21:55:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T20:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/?p=6434"},"modified":"2009-07-25T06:21:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T05:21:51","slug":"vastu-chidambaram-the-5-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/vastu-chidambaram-the-5-elements\/","title":{"rendered":"VASTU – Chidambaram & the 5 Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"

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> VASTU Architekturlehre <<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

> Ein Rundgang durch Chidambaram <<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

> Vastusutra Upanishad, The Essence of Form in Sacred Art <<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

by Boner, Alice and Rath Sarma, Sadasiva and Bettina Bäumer<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Der Nataraja-Tempel<\/span> gilt Hindus, neben den Tempeln in Tiruvannamalai, Madurai und Srirangam, als einer der heiligsten Orte<\/span> in Tamil Nadu und ganz Indien. Die Geschichte des Heiligtums reicht etwa 2000 Jahre zurück, womit er einer der ältesten Tempel Südindiens ist. In Tamil Nadu gilt der Nataraja Tempel als der Tempel; wenn also von dem Tempel gesprochen wird, ist jener in Chidambaram gemeint.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Geweiht ist er Shiva in seiner Erscheinungsform als Nataraja, als tanzender Gott, der in seinem Tanz die Welt neu erschafft.<\/span><\/p>\n

Das Tempelareal erstreckt sich auf einer Fläche von rund 16 km\u00b2. Vier über 40 Meter hohe Gopurams (Tor-Türme) bilden die Zugänge, von denen der Nordturm mit 42,4 m der höchste ist. In Erinnerung daran, dass die vier bedeutendsten Heiligen des Shivaismus (siehe auch Yoga und Yoga Heilige) der ersten Hälfte des ersten Jahrtausends an diesem Ort lebten und wirkten, wurden ihre Abbilder an den Gopurams angebracht: Sambandar im Süden, Appar im Westen, Sundarar im Norden und Manikkavacakar im Osten. An der Fassade des östlichen Gopuram sind 108 Darstellungen von Gesten des Bharatanatyam-Tanzes zu sehen, dem in diesem, dem tanzenden Shiva geweihten Ort eine besondere Bedeutung zukommt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Im Inneren Tempelgelände, das in fünf große Höfe gegliedert ist, befinden sich der Sivakamiamman-Tempel, das Sivaganga-Wasserbecken, die \u201eHalle der tausend Säulen\u201c (tatsächlich sind es 999) und das zentrale Heiligtum. Darin wird Nataraja, anders als in den meisten ihm gewidmeten Tempeln, nicht in Form eines Lingams repräsentiert, sondern als Skulptur in einer Darstellung als vielarmiger tanzender Gott.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"shivas-geheimnis-vinod-verma\"<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0> Symbolik\u00a0vom tanzenden Shiva<\/span> <<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Chidambaram Temple, dedicated to Lord Shiva (or Siva) in His form of the Cosmic Dancer, Nataraja, is a temple complex spread over 40 acres. <\/span><\/p>\n

The word Chidambaram is derived from \u2018Chit\u2019, meaning \u2018consciousness,\u2019 and \u2018ambaram\u2019, meaning sky (aakasam or aakayam); thus it refers to the ‚chidakasam‘, the sky of consciousness, which is the ultimate aim one should attain as mentioned by all vedas and scriptures.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

> Buchtipp: The hidden treasure\u00a0in the ether city <<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

One more theory is it is derived from CHITRAMBALAM (CHIT, siehe\u00a0auch Yogatheorie<\/span>\u00a0+ AMBALAM) Ambalam means Stage for performing arts. The ‚chidakasam‘ is the state of supreme bliss or ‚aananda‘ and lord Natarajar is the symbolic representation of the supreme bliss or ‚aananda natanam‘. Saivaites believe that a visit to Chidambaram leads to liberation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The story of Chidambaram begins with the legend of Lord Siva strolling into the Thillai Vanam (‚Vanam‘ meaning forest and ‚thillai‘ trees – botanical name Exocoeria agallocha, a species of mangrove trees<\/span> – which currently grows in the Pichavaram wetlands near Chidambaram. The temple sculptures depicting the Thillai trees date back to the 2nd century AD).<\/span><\/p>\n

Chidambaram is one of the Panchabhuta (siehe auch Elemente im Ayurveda und Yoga) \u00a0Stalams signifying the five elements of wind (Kalahasti), water (Tiruvanaikka), fire (Tiruvannamalai), earth (Kanchipuram) and space (Chidambaram).<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Chidambaram temple car is probably one of the most beautiful examples available of temple car making in Tamil Nadu. This car on which Lord Nataraja descends twice a year is drawn by several thousands of devotees during the festivals.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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> <\/span><\/span>Zur Ikonographie & Vastu der indischen Tempel<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Places to see in Chidambaram:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Nataraja Temple<\/strong><\/span>-The temple located in the centre of the town covers an area of 40 acres. It is one of the ancient temples of Tamil Nadu. The roof of the sanctum sanctorum is covered with gold plates.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kali<\/strong> Temple<\/strong><\/span>-The Thillaikaliamman temple is on the northern end of the town. It was built by Kopperunjingan, who ruled between 1229 AD and 1278 AD.<\/span><\/p>\n

Annamalai University-It is a residential University founded by the Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiar. It is a great centre of Tamil learning and carnatic music;<\/span> <\/strong>now offers educational facilities in various disciplines including Medicine, Agriculture, Engineering<\/span> etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

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How to reach Chidambaram:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

By Air-Nearest Airport is Trichy.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

By Rail-It is connected by rail with Trichy, Madurai, Chennai.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

By Road-It is also connected with all<\/span> major towns.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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> VASTU Architekturlehre <\u00a0
\n> Ein Rundgang durch Chidambaram <
\n> Vastusutra Upanishad, The Essence of Form in Sacred Art <
\nby Boner, Alice and Rath Sarma, Sadasiva and Bettina Bäumer
\nDer Nataraja-Tempel gilt Hindus, neben den Tempeln in Tiruvannamalai, Madurai und Srirangam, als einer der heiligsten Orte in Tamil Nadu und ganz Indien. Die Geschichte des Heiligtums reicht […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}