Today, I'm in north-west London, in Neasden, walking into what must be one of the most startling buildings in the capital.It's the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, the Neasden Hindu temple,and it's a vast white building, elaborately carved in India by over 1,500 craftsmen, and then shipped to England.
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I've taken my shoes off and come inside-into a large hall, sumptuously decorated with sculptures of the Hindu gods, carved in white Carrara marble.
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Images like these, of Shiva, Vishnu and the other Hindu gods, strike us as timeless,but there was one particular moment when this way of seeing the gods began.
我们如今看到这里湿婆、毗湿奴等印度神祇的形象，仿佛亘古以来就是如此，但其实这些形象的形成，在历史上自有其起点be3c+Idp-H^JfC2q。
The visual language of Hinduism, just like Buddhism and Christianity, crystallises somewhere around the year 400,
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and this exuberant crowd of deities in Neasden can be traced back, pretty well directly, to India's great Gupta Empire of around 1,600 years ago.
我们如今在伦敦看到的形象，可追溯到约1600年前印度伟大的笈多王朝.,]p+yaCOMD=oKy~=D。