scholarly journals The Reconstruction of Buddhist Landscape Planning of Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland

2018 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 04011
Author(s):  
Xin Li ◽  
Piiilei Ma ◽  
Xiuyao Ma
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Pattern ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Tibetan Buddhist ◽  
Native Site

By comparing the differences in the Buddhist landscape between Scottish Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and the Samye Ling Temple in Tibet, the article points out the former has three problems such as an inadequate Buddha-Hall, unbalanced distribution of Buddhist landscapes and incomplete Mandala landscape pattern. It is proposed that to enlarge Buddha-Hall and build out corridors for more circumambulations, and to construct new landscape in four directions to form a complete Buddhist pattern including Dvipa and Eight Small Continents. The conclusion is the reconstruction of Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland brings new spatial distinction, which will enhance its influence and sustainable development.So the modernity method of Tibetan Buddhist temples overseas is based on the inheriting the traditional Tibetan Mandala Buddhist pattern, and then to develop the Five-Holy style Buddhist landscape pattern which inculturation with the native site situation.

Studiul structurii peisajelor bazinului hidrografic Nârnova în baza imaginilor satelitare LANDSAT 8

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana Stratan ◽  
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Iurie Bejan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Pattern ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
System Technology ◽  
Landscape Elements ◽  
Theoretical Support ◽  
Regional Landscape ◽  
Information System Technology ◽  
Anthropic Pressure

The efficient development of remote sensing and geographic information system technology provides more accurate technical support for the quantitative analysis of landscape pattern. In order to effectively reflect the current situation of the landscape pattern of the Nirnova river basin, it is better to understand the interaction between anthropic pressure and landscape elements, and to provide scientific basis and theoretical support for the regional landscape planning.

scholarly journals Mountainous City Featured Landscape Planning Based on GIS-AHP Analytical Method

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Yanlong Liu ◽  
Li Li
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Pattern ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Resource Assessment ◽  
Water Area ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Ecological Sensitivity ◽  
The City ◽  
Green Land

In order to take full advantage of the landscape resources in the city’s featured landscape planning, and mutually integrate ecological green land with city space, this paper takes the mountainous city, Qianxi County, as the research subject to conduct an ecological sensitivity analysis with the GIS space analytical method, while adopting the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method to find a landscape resource assessment system for Qianxi County. Based on the analysis of the mountainous city landscape pattern characteristics and ecological adaptability, the paper combines with the landscape planning practice in Qianxi County and starts from the ecological pattern construction and urban landscape resource assessment to expound the methodological guidance function of the GIS-AHP analytical method for the mountainous city landscape planning. This method helps recognize the characteristics of the city landscape resources in an all-sided way that protects the city landscape, improves the use-value of the mountainous city landscape resources, integrates the city land area with the water area landscape’s green land and builds an ecological, cultural, and habitable mountainous city featured landscape pattern.

scholarly journals Influence of Landscape Pattern Changes on Runoff and Sediment in the Dali River Watershed on the Loess Plateau of China

Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Zhilei Bi ◽  
Xin Zhang ◽  
Yang Yu
Keyword(s):  
Loess Plateau ◽  
Landscape Pattern ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
Shape Index ◽  
Annual Runoff ◽  
The Loess Plateau ◽  
River Watershed ◽  
Watershed Land Use

The large-scale Grain for Green project on the Loess Plateau of China significantly changes the regional landscape pattern, which has a profound impact on runoff and sediment process. The relationship between landscape pattern and runoff and sediment in the Dali River watershed is established. Cropland and grassland areas in the watershed show a downward trend, whereas the woodland and building land increases continuously. The Number of Patches (NP), Patch Density (PD) and Landscape Diversity (SHDI), Landscape Division Index (DIVISION) increase significantly. The Largest Patch Index (LPI) and Landscape Shape Index (LSI) show overall change in the rising and falling rule. The Contagion Index (CONTAG) and Cohesion Index (COHESION) first increase, then decrease. A decreasing trend is shown by runoff and sediment. The annual runoff in 2010 was 29.76% less than in 1960, and the annual sediment load was 84.87% less. NP, PD, COHESION, DIVISION and SHDI have a significant negative correlation with runoff and sediment, and CONTAG and runoff sediment are positively related. This study could provide theoretical support for guiding watershed land use and landscape planning to effectively reduce runoff and sediment transport.

Landscape Pattern Analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-205
Author(s):  
Kimberly A. With
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Pattern ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Species Conservation ◽  
Natural Disturbance ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Landscape Pattern Analysis ◽  
Human Land Use

The analysis of landscapes and other spatial patterns is a major focus of landscape ecology, being essential to the study of how landscape patterns affect ecological processes. Landscape pattern analysis has become a sine qua non for environmental monitoring, natural resource management, landscape planning, sustainable development, and species conservation. The intensification of human land use is a major global-change issue, requiring an in-depth analysis of how landscapes are being transformed over time, as well as how anthropogenic disturbances compare to the natural disturbance regime. This chapter covers the types and availability of landscape data, such as from historical land surveys and remote sensing; how spatial data are processed and manipulated within a Geographical Information System (GIS); and finally, how to analyze landscape structure using landscape metrics and spatial statistics, including a discussion of best practices.

scholarly journals Identifying the Impact of Landscape Pattern on Ecosystem Services in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River Urban Agglomerations, China

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (14) ◽  
pp. 5063
Author(s):  
Luwen Liu ◽  
Xingrong Chen ◽  
Wanxu Chen ◽  
Xinyue Ye
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Landscape Pattern ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Cultivated Land ◽  
Landscape Pattern Metrics ◽  
Urban Agglomerations ◽  
Pattern Metrics ◽  
The Impact

Clarifying the impact mechanisms of landscape patterns on ecosystem services is highly important for effective ecosystem protection, policymaking, and landscape planning. However, previous literature lacks knowledge about the impact mechanisms of landscape patterns on ecosystem services from a spatial perspective. Thus, this study measured landscape patterns and the ecosystem services value (ESV) using a series of landscape pattern metrics and an improved benefit transfer method based on land-use data from 2015. It explores the impact mechanisms of the landscape pattern metrics on the ESV using the ordinary least-squares method and spatial regression models in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River Urban Agglomerations (MRYRUA), China. We found that forestland was the main landscape type in the MRYRUA, followed by cultivated land, and the fragmentation degree of cultivated land was significantly higher than that of forestland. The findings demonstrate that landscape pattern metrics had a significant impact on ecosystem services, but could vary greatly. Moreover, ecosystem services in the MRYRUA exhibited significant spatial spillover effects and cross-regional collaborative governance was an effective means of landscape planning. This paper acts as a scientific reference and effective guidance for landscape planning and regional ecosystem conservation in MRYRUA and other similarly fast-growing urban agglomerations.

The progress and perspectives of landscape ecology in China

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo-jie Fu ◽  
Yi-he Lu
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Ecology ◽  
Landscape Pattern ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Arid Zone ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Methodological Development ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Catchment Scale ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Methodological Innovation

After 20 years of research and application, landscape ecology in China has gained many achievements and established a concrete foundation for further development. The major progress of landscape ecology in China was in the fields of land-use structure and ecological processes, landscape pattern and dynamics analysis, theoretical and methodological development, and landscape ecological applications. Past researches emphasized particularly the theories and applications, while the methodological study accounted for a comparatively small part; urban and suburban landscapes, regional and catchment scale landscapes, cold and arid zone landscapes, forest landscapes, agricultural landscapes and wetland landscapes were the main research subjects. Major problems with past researches include the following. 1) There was unbalanced attention on conceptual/theoretical analysis, monitoring, methodological development and applications. 2) Landscape metrics were widely used, whereas the ecological implications were not fully addressed. 3) The researches on the relationship between landscape pattern and ecological processes and scaling were largely preliminary. 4) The risk, uncertainty and accuracy of the data processing were seldom mentioned. 5) The original methodological innovation was scant. To solve these problems effectively and promote landscape ecology in China to full development at a whole new stage of the twenty-first century, the following four closely interrelated and complementary tasks should be addressed: 1) establishing appropriate strategies for the development of landscape ecology; 2) enhancing experiment-based and long-term research; 3) improving landscape planning, design, conservation and management; 4) initiating and advancing the development of unified landscape ecology with Chinese characteristics.

Contemplative Principles of a Non-dual Praxis: the Unmediated Practices of the Tibetan ‘Heart Essence’ (sNying thig) Tradition

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-240
Author(s):  
Eran Laish
Keyword(s):  
Contemplative Practice ◽  
Tibetan Buddhist ◽  
Buddhist Tradition ◽  
The Common

This article focuses on the main contemplative principles of the ‘Heart Essence’ (sNying thig), a Tibetan Buddhist tradition that is characterized by a vision of non-duality and primordial wholeness. Due to this vision, which asserts an original reality that is not divided into perceiving subject and perceived object, the ‘Heart Essence’ advocates a contemplative practice that undermines the usual intuitions of temporality and enclosed selfhood. Hence, unlike the common principles of intentional praxis, such as deliberate concentration and gradual purification, the ‘Heart Essence’ affirms four contemplative principles of non-objectiveness, openness, spontaneity and singleness. As these principles transcend intentionality, temporality, and multiplicity, they are seen to directly disclose the nature of primordial awareness, in which the meanings of knowing and being are radically transformed. Therefore, the article will also consider the role of these non-dual contemplative principles in deeply changing our understanding of being and knowing alike.

Tartan Buddhists

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
John McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Potential Utility ◽  
Tibetan Buddhist ◽  
The West ◽  
Dependent Relationship ◽  
Different Types

The purpose of this article is to provide a sociological typology for understanding the different types of practitioners within the Tibetan Buddhist organization, Rokpa International, in Scotland. It will be argued that the empirically derived criteria and Weber’s (1978) sociological concepts of authority, power and status allow us to understand the tensions and mutually dependent relationship between the different types. In conclusion, it will be argued that, while this typology is not presented as a challenge to existing typologies, this article demonstrates the potential utility of these sociological concepts for understanding the practice and development of Buddhism in the West.

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