why is there a need to preserve kailasanath temple?and how?

Question

ways to protect it
need to protect it

Answer 1

The Kailasanath temple complex was built between 700 and 725 by a Pallava king at his dynasty’s capital, Kancipuram, in southeastern India. The architecture and sculpture of this monument express tantric philosophy’s central principles through visual signs that remain hidden even as they sit in plain view. Any visitor who gains access to the temple’s walled courtyard will see all around her the interlocked buildings and dramatic carvings that carry these tantric meanings. Those meanings, however, may elude her because they lie not in the forms alone but in patterns underlying the placement of those forms throughout the temple complex. Only visitors trained in tantra—initiates in that esoteric tradition or scholars benefitting from the recent publication of tantric secrets—are likely to perceive those patterns and recognize their significance.

One of these patterns I discern at the Kailasanath complex rests in the arrangement of its goddess images. This sculptural program consistently counterposes goddesses on the basis of their sexuality, manifesting as it does so tantra’s emphasis on the sexuality of deities, the variability of the supreme Goddess’s many manifestations, and the goal of transcending dualistic thought. These core lessons of Tantra are thus embedded in the monument’s very plan but screened from the gaze of those who have not learned what to look for.


hence needed
since we in so called secular no coments


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