Pavel Pryanikov
The growth of urbanization in the First World caused and reverse process- wish large groups people to move back to nature, as well as the creation of “specialized” and “ideal” cities - without the grimaces of urbanism. Garden city, plantation city, Nazi city, drunk city and other utopian cities in the selection below.
Octagon City, vegetarian Utopia
In 1856 in the United States, the Kansas Vegetarian Organization founded Octagon, a town near Humboldt. The city was intended to be populated by vegetarians. The design of the settlement was influenced by the ideas of phrenologist Orson Fowler, according to which octagons were the most practical house shape because they greatest number sunlight, to enter.
The city plan was developed by Henry Clubb, a vegetarian and Puritan (see city plan above). In addition to the octagonal houses in the city there was octagonal area and eight roads. The settlement would have consisted of 4 octagonal villages. If all people lived in own homes, were engaged agriculture and crafts, leisure and culture were located in public buildings.
60 families came to the vegetarian city of Octagon. A public log house was waiting for them, in which they all settled. In the spring of 1857, Octagon's river and wells dried up due to a dry winter, then dysentery and fever struck the settlers, including some deaths. By the end of 1857, the remaining settlers of the Octagon had left.
Automatic utopian city
The French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier developed a plan for an ideal city at the beginning of the 20th century. The architecture of such a city, he believed, should be as efficient and simple as possible, like industrial machines. He developed a plan for two utopian cities: Ville Radieuse and Ville Contemporaine. They were both supposed to have massive skyscrapers housing millions of people. Parks and green areas divided these massive cities into industrial and recreational zones.
Residential buildings were to become the center public life, with roof gardens and beaches, and on them lower floors catering and kindergartens would be located. Le Corbusier calculated that each building would house 2,700 people. Their work will take 5 hours a day. There will be no personal cars in such a city; they will be replaced by developed public transport.
Le Corbusier built only one such house, which was to become the main unit of his utopian city - in Marseille (photo below).
Garden City
In 1902, social reformer Ebenezer Howard published his treatise, The Garden City of the Future. He describes a city that occupies 2,400 hectares of land, with buildings for 32 thousand people. Residential buildings would occupy only 1 thousand hectares. The rest of the city's land would be given over to public parks, farms and wide roads.
Howard managed to partially realize his dreams when building two towns in England, in Hertfordshire - Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth Garden City (pictured below current state town of Letchworth).
Although Howard failed to fully realize his utopia, he became the first developer of the principles of residential suburbia (later implemented mainly in the United States).
In 1932, American Frank Lloyd Wright began developing the idea of an ideal city based on his love of the open, rural prairies of the Midwest. Wright called it "Open City" (and also "self-sufficient"). Wright wanted such a city to have no industry, but for people to lead subsidiary farm(40 acres of land were allocated for the house), they were engaged in crafts and culture. In terms of population, such a city was designed for a maximum of 10 thousand people. All public goods (roads, housing and communal services, medicine, education, etc.) in such a city would never be private, but would be jointly managed by all citizens.
Wright believed that in the future all of America would consist of such towns. I would connect them small aircraft(with a flight range of up to 250 km) and high-speed rail transport.
Wright never succeeded in realizing his utopia.
Nazi utopian city
Architect Albert Speer was commissioned by Hitler to transform Berlin into the futuristic capital of Nazism. Speer planned to build it up with massive buildings - both residential and public (for example, main stadium would accommodate 400 thousand spectators). The city had to be broken wide roads into squares. It was planned that by the end of the twentieth century 20 million people would live in it (and the population Nazi Germany would be 200 million people).
Since the city was located in a swampy area, Speer decided to build one massive building and see how it would shrink. This building still stands (it sank 18 cm during this time), and it turned out to be the only element of the Nazi utopian city brought to life (this building is in the photo below).
Utopian city Fordlandia
In 1930, automobile industrialist Henry Ford bought a piece of land in the Brazilian jungle. There he intended to build a utopian city named after him - Fordlandia.
The main activity of the settlers was to be the cultivation of rubber trees and the production of rubber from them. Ford brought about 300 workers here from the United States. Eccentric millionaire set strict rules in Fordlandia - prohibition of alcohol, premarital sex, etc. Workers had to work 5 days a week for 9 hours. Among the benefits here were free housing, medicine and leisure (library and watching movies of the “right direction”).
Hard work and strict rules forced the settlers to revolt against the Ford administration that ruled the city. The chief supervisor of workers' morale was killed. Ford surrendered and transported the workers from Fordlandia back to the USA (below in the photo is the administration building destroyed during the uprising).
Flying city
In the 1950s, Buckminster Fuller developed the "flying city". Interestingly, this city was intended for the Japanese and its plan was carried out with money from the American occupation group in Japan. It was proposed to resettle people from overpopulated Tokyo.
Such a sphere, each of which would house up to 1 thousand people, would receive energy from the sun. Food was grown inside it. In some ways, life in a flying city would be similar to the astronauts’ stay at the station.
But to prevent the Japanese from flying out of the country, it was proposed to tie the sphere to the ground with a powerful cable.
The Americans never built flying cities for the Japanese.
City "Success"
Oil was discovered in Alaska in 1968. This gave a powerful impetus to the development of the state. Tandy Industries Tulsa then developed a plan for a completely closed, climate-controlled city called Seward.
It was supposed to house 40 thousand people. Personal automobiles would be prohibited in Seward, and residents would travel by monorail, streetcars, and self-propelled sidewalks.
The investor was never able to build this city, including because he could not agree on the terms of cooperation with the native tribes living in this area.
A utopian city for drunks
In 1952, Mel Johnson presented investors with a plan for an ideal city - designed to accommodate drunkards and alcoholics.
In the city it would be like resident population, as well as tourists who come here on alcohol trips. It would be forbidden for children to live in a drunken city.
The drunken city was supposed to house distilleries, breweries, and most of buildings would represent bars, pubs and sanatoriums where drunkards slept off after a binge. For the convenience of drunkards, there would be self-propelled sidewalks.
Johnson was never able to find investors for the drunken city.
April 21st, 2014Octagon City, vegetarian Utopia
In 1856, the Kansas Vegetarian Organization founded Octagon, a town near Humboldt. The city was intended to be populated by vegetarians. The settlement's design was influenced by phrenologist Orson Fowler's ideas that octagons were the most practical house shape because they received the most sunlight to enter.
The city plan was developed by Henry Clubb, a vegetarian and Puritan (see city plan above). In addition to the octagonal houses, the city had an octagonal square and eight roads. The settlement would have consisted of 4 octagonal villages. All people would live in their own homes, engage in agriculture and crafts, leisure and culture would be located in public buildings.
60 families came to the vegetarian city of Octagon. A public log house was waiting for them, in which they all settled. In the spring of 1857, Octagon's river and wells dried up due to a dry winter, then dysentery and fever struck the settlers, including some deaths. By the end of 1857, the remaining settlers of the Octagon had left.
For those interested, there are 8 more cities under the cut...
Automatic utopian city
The French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier developed a plan for an ideal city at the beginning of the 20th century. The architecture of such a city, he believed, should be as efficient and simple as possible, like industrial machines. He developed a plan for two utopian cities: Ville Radieuse and Ville Contemporaine. They were both supposed to have massive skyscrapers housing millions of people. Parks and green areas divided these massive cities into industrial and recreational zones.
Residential buildings were to become the center of public life, with roof gardens and beaches, and on their lower floors catering and kindergartens would be located. Le Corbusier calculated that each building would house 2,700 people. Their work will take 5 hours a day. There will be no personal cars in such a city; they will be replaced by developed public transport.
Le Corbusier built only one such house, which was to become the main unit of his utopian city - in Marseille (photo below).
Garden City
In 1902, social reformer Ebenezer Howard published his treatise, The Garden City of the Future. He describes a city that occupies 2,400 hectares of land, with buildings for 32 thousand people. Residential buildings would occupy only 1 thousand hectares. The rest of the city's land would be given over to public parks, farms and wide roads.
Howard managed to partially realize his dreams when building two towns in England, in Hertfordshire - Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth Garden City (pictured below is the current state of the town of Letchworth).
Although Howard failed to fully realize his utopia, he became the first developer of the principles of residential suburbia (later implemented mainly in the United States).
Open City
In 1932, American Frank Lloyd Wright began developing the idea of an ideal city based on his love of the open, rural prairies of the Midwest. Wright called it "Open City" (and also "self-sufficient"). Wright wanted such a city to have no industry, but for people to run farmsteads (40 acres of land were allocated per house) and engage in crafts and culture. In terms of population, such a city was designed for a maximum of 10 thousand people. All public goods (roads, housing and communal services, medicine, education, etc.) in such a city would never be private, but would be jointly managed by all citizens.
Wright believed that in the future all of America would consist of such towns. They would be connected by small aviation (with a flight range of up to 250 km) and high-speed rail transport.
Wright never succeeded in realizing his utopia.
Nazi utopian city
Architect Albert Speer was commissioned by Hitler to transform Berlin into the futuristic capital of Nazism. Speer planned to build it up with massive buildings - both residential and public (for example, the main stadium would accommodate 400 thousand spectators). The city was to be divided into squares by wide roads. It was planned that by the end of the twentieth century, 20 million people would live there (and the population of Nazi Germany would be 200 million people).
Since the city was located in a swampy area, Speer decided to build one massive building and see how it would shrink. This building still stands (it sank 18 cm during this time), and it turned out to be the only element of the Nazi utopian city brought to life (this building is in the photo below).
Utopian city Fordlandia
In 1930, automobile industrialist Henry Ford bought a piece of land in the Brazilian jungle. There he intended to build a utopian city named after him - Fordlandia.
The main activity of the settlers was to be the cultivation of rubber trees and the production of rubber from them. Ford brought about 300 workers here from the United States. An eccentric millionaire established strict rules in Fordlandia - a ban on alcohol, premarital sex, etc. Workers had to work 5 days a week for 9 hours. Among the benefits here were free housing, medicine and leisure (library and watching movies of the “right direction”).
Hard work and strict rules forced the settlers to revolt against the Ford administration that ruled the city. The chief supervisor of workers' morale was killed. Ford surrendered and transported the workers from Fordlandia back to the United States (the photo below shows the administration building destroyed during the uprising).
Flying city
In the 1950s, Buckminster Fuller developed the "flying city". Interestingly, this city was intended for the Japanese and its plan was carried out with money from the American occupation group in Japan. It was proposed to resettle people from overpopulated Tokyo.
Such a sphere, each of which would house up to 1 thousand people, would receive energy from the sun. Food was grown inside it. In some ways, life in a flying city would be similar to the astronauts’ stay at the station.
But to prevent the Japanese from flying out of the country, it was proposed to tie the sphere to the ground with a powerful cable.
The Americans never built flying cities for the Japanese.
City "Success"
Oil was discovered in Alaska in 1968. This gave a powerful impetus to the development of the state. Tandy Industries Tulsa then developed a plan for a completely closed, climate-controlled city called Seward.
It was supposed to house 40 thousand people. Personal automobiles would be prohibited in Seward, and residents would travel by monorail, streetcars, and self-propelled sidewalks.
The investor was never able to build this city, including because he could not agree on the terms of cooperation with the native tribes living in this area.
A utopian city for drunks
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All architects today talk about dissatisfaction with the results of their work, but only in creative, and not in material terms. One can only pay tribute to the integrity of the person who brought this dissatisfaction to its logical conclusion, abandoned real practice and turned to the genre of architectural utopia. I don’t know of any other such examples today. I would like to say not about how these works are similar to the history of paper architecture, but about how they differ from it.
Piranesi painted the past. The past was not the way he painted it, the Roman buildings at no point in their existence were the same as he saw them, but nevertheless it was thought of as an image of a past greatness that once was and is now lost. Bullet and Ledoux have been drawing “eternity.” Their buildings were never built and could never be built, but everything that was actually built had to strive for these ideal images. Chernikhov painted the future. This future was not bright; Chernikhov differs from the avant-garde from which he grew in that his future is rather frightening and suppressive, but his visions are still conceived in such a way that real architecture can come to this. Not so much that it should, but that it can, but in reality. The paperbacks of the 1980s envisioned an alternative to modernity. Their works could not be built literally the way they were drawn, but still they outlined a certain alternative path the development of real architecture, which can be refined, reworked, but, to one degree or another, embodied.
Let's take, say, “Ritual Building – Ball” by Arthur Skizhaly-Weiss. What's in front of us? Past? No, this has never happened, and no matter what ruins of any ancient civilizations we look at, it is impossible to complete such a thing from them. Ideal architecture? No, none of the movements of modern or historical architecture aspired to such a form. An image of the future? Not in the least, none of modern trends human development does not lead to such a result. An alternative to today's? Well, in a rather specific sense. This is an alternative that in no way strives to become a reality.
Reflecting on the meaning of these works, I caught myself with the following analogy. For example, “Pantheon-Lighthouse”. A city by the ocean consisting of skyscrapers. A kind of Manhattan, built according to a similar scheme. But some other civilization, which has fundamentally different construction technologies. This civilization first developed in the same way as we do, they had their own antiquity and their own Gothic, but somewhere in the 14th century they invented a new connecting material instead of a trivial mortar, which allowed them to glue stone blocks tightly together. On the other hand, they did not come to the industrial production of metal, allowing it to be used in construction, in the 19th century. Therefore, they began to create buildings of arbitrary shapes and shells of arbitrary curvature based on traditional masonry techniques, naturally developing the traditions of order architecture. And as a result, New York looks something like this.
This idea came to me quite by accident, just before getting acquainted with the work of Arthur Skizhali-Weiss, I read the novel famous science fiction writer Sergei Lukyanenko’s “Morning Is Coming,” in which the action takes place in a civilization that does not know industrial production metal This civilization is not in the past relative to ours, and not in the future, it is neither an ideal nor a warning - it is simply parallel to our history.
It seemed to me that there was a structural similarity in the development of the genre. Literary fiction for a long time developed, showing us an image of the future, positive or negative. But today's fiction has moved away from this and constantly sends us to a parallel world with some other principle of development. Actually, this difference in the Russian language received terminological expression: if the old literature was called the term “fantasy”, then the new one is called “fantasy”.
It seems to me that the works of Arthur Skizhali-Weiss are precisely architectural fantasy, and this is what distinguishes them from the entire previous body of paper architecture. But, in addition to the actual genre discovery that he made, I find another interest in his ideas. The task of order architecture is to harmonize space. A strict classicist will say that this imposes significant restrictions on the type of space itself, and, say, a classic building cannot be higher than five floors. There is a reason for this. But in the works of Skizhali-Weiss, the order harmonizes fundamentally different types of spaces - hundred-story skyscrapers, spirals, shells of arbitrary curvature. And I would say that the order exists in them with a paradoxical degree of certainty. I understand that Palladio would be horrified by the fact that the columns bend on the ball like curlers. But I think that Leonardo, with his ideas for a multi-level city, would have approached this differently.
DOSSIER
Arthur Skizhali-Weiss
Born 02/21/1963 in Moscow
1986 – graduated from Moscow Architectural Institute
1986-1995 – Mosproekt-1, workshop 11
1995-2002 – “Association of Theater Architects”
1997 – member of the Union of Moscow Architects
Since 1999 he has been working in the genre of architectural fantasy
Exhibitions:
2002 – Participated in the exhibition “Construction Industry and Architecture 2002”
2004 – Personal exhibition at the Union of Architects (White Living Room)
Since the creation of the first state, people have been obsessed with the idea of creating an ideal society. A state in which there is no poverty, disease and inequality is such a long-standing dream of enlightened humanity that it is difficult to say when it first appeared. For this kind of fantasies and projects, at the end of the Middle Ages, a special term appeared - “utopia”. It was taken from work of the same name Thomas More - “The Golden Book, as useful as it is amusing, about the best structure of the state and about the new island of Utopia,” in which “Utopia” is only the name of the island. For the first time. meaning “model of an ideal society” this word is found in the book of travels of the English priest Samuel Purches “Pilgrimage” (Pilgrimage, 1613). The adjective “utopian” was also used there for the first time. This became the specificity of the models of the ideal world - when creating a utopia, they were not taken into account real conditions And historical background. It is all the more interesting today to look at projects of the past that demonstrate the hopes of the most enlightened people of the past.
The birth of utopia
Most cultures and religions have a strong myth about the distant past, in which humanity lives in a primitive and simple state, but at the same time being in a state of perfect happiness and satisfaction. The earliest written references utopias are recorded in the ancient heritage, for example, in the treatise “The Golden Age” ancient Greek poet Hesiod, written in the 8th century BC. In the poetic treatise, the poet suggests that before the current era there were other, more perfect ones, the very first of which was the Golden Age - a time of harmony and universal brotherhood.
Religions and utopias
Another one of the most persistent and oldest utopias on earth is the dream of afterlife and the ideal of heaven. Judaism, Christianity and Islam have a clear idea of how exactly things are “on the other side” and usually heaven represents precisely the ideal society. The Garden of Eden has all the signs of utopia, including the fact that time has stopped there and no changes have occurred for thousands of years.
Spring peach flower
The Spring Peach Blossom, a fable by Chinese poet Tao Yuanming written in 421 AD, describes an ideal society in which people lead an ideal existence in harmony with nature without establishing any external contacts.
New harmony and utopian experiments
With achievements industrial revolution, the prospect of achieving utopia seemed real, especially in countries like the United States. The number of utopian communities increased dramatically in the late 1800s. Usually they were created on the basis of certain religious or ideological ideas. One of these communities was called New Harmony and was founded by the Welsh industrialist Robert Owen. The community grew into the whole city, which in 1825 became a real center of achievements in the field of education and scientific research but ultimately wrong economic approach ruined a promising initiative.
Utopian technologies
Scientific and technological utopias that flourished at the beginning of the 19th century gave rise to many fantasies about the amazing technology of the future. These utopian flying cars were depicted on a French postcard issued in the 1890s.
Ville Radieuse
Ville Radieuse is an unrealized project designed by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1924. Le Corbusier idealized the very idea of the city, filling it with high-rise residential buildings and an abundance of green areas.
Broadacre City
In 1932, the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright saw the plans for Ville Radieuse and conceived his own utopia, with farmers and open spaces. In his utopia, he exploited the idea of mixing urban and agricultural spaces. Lloyd Wright's city was designed to house 10,000 people and used only the resources it produced itself. Broadacre was never built, but used forward-thinking principles of local food production and remains a source of inspiration for architects today.
Speer's Nazi Utopia
Architect Albert Speer was one of Adolf Hitler's closest friends and, as the “first architect of the Third Reich,” was involved in developing the reconstruction of Berlin in a very futuristic manner. The capital of Germany was supposed to become a huge metropolis with a mass of skyscrapers, huge avenues and gigantic stadiums. The defeat of the Nazis in 1945 put an end to Speer's endeavors.
Buckminster Fuller's vision of a floating city
Buckminster Fuller, an inventor and architect, designed a number of futuristic city designs throughout his career. The most notable of these was the concept of a city that would sit on giant floating platforms in the ocean.
Seward's success
In 1968, oil was discovered in Prudhoe Bay in Alaska. This caused a real construction explosion in the northern state. "Seward's Success" was the working name for the domed town that was supposed to be built near the field. The city project included office rooms, shopping areas, residential areas, athletic facilities, as well as the system monorails for the movement of residents.
It so happened that we arrived in the small, relatively secluded town of Rewalsar in the Himalayas quite late, so late that the small, sleepy and lazy provincial hotels had a hard time bothering with our check-in. The hotel owners shrugged their shoulders, shook their heads and waved their hands somewhere towards the night and slammed the doors in our faces. But we were willingly, although not free of charge, accepted to live in a guest house on the territory of the Tibetan Buddhist monastery on the shore of the lake.
As is often the case in Tibetan places, our meeting and accommodation were handled by a Hindu, since it is not appropriate for Tibetan monks to deal with monetary and worldly matters. In addition, the monastery had been immersed in the darkness of night for several hours, and the monks needed to get enough sleep so that tomorrow early in the morning they would have to go to meditation with a cheerful and pious face. The Indian who gave us the keys to the hotel room told us about this and other sorrows of the world, and in order to somehow console himself, he insistently recommended that we attend this event at seven in the morning.
The main topics are below: buses and trains, air tickets and visas, health and hygiene, safety, choosing a route, hotels, food, required budget. The relevance of this text is spring 2017.
Hotels
“Where will I live there?” - for some reason this question is very, simply terribly annoying for those who have not yet traveled to India. There is no such problem. There are a dime a dozen hotels there. The main thing is to choose. Further we're talking about about inexpensive, budget hotels.
In my experience, there are three main ways to find a hotel.
Spiral
Typically you will arrive at new town by bus or train. So there is almost always a great mass of hotels around them. Therefore, it is enough to move a little away from the place of arrival and start walking in a circle with everything large radius to come across a variety of hotels. Inscriptions "Hotel" throughout large parts of India, it indicates a place where you can eat, so the main landmarks are signs "Guest house" And "Lounge".
In areas of mass idleness (Goa, the resorts of Kerala, the Himalayas), the private sector is developed, well, like we have on the Black Sea coast. There you can inquire about housing from local population and follow the signs " Rent"In Buddhist places you can live in monasteries, in Hindu places in ashrams.
The further you go from the bus station or railway station, the lower the prices, but hotels are becoming less and less common. So you look at several hotels that are acceptable in price and quality and return to the chosen one.
If you are traveling in a group, then you can send one or two people lightly to find a hotel while the rest wait at the station with their things.
If the hotel refuses and says that the hotel is only for Indians, then insisting on check-in is practically useless.
Ask a taxi driver
For those who have a lot of luggage or are simply too lazy to look. Or you want to settle near a landmark, for example, the Taj Mahal, and not near the train station. Also in major cities there are places where tourists traditionally gather: in Delhi it’s Main Bazaar, in Calcutta it’s Sader Street, in Bombay it’s also called something, but I forgot, that is, you have to go there anyway.
In this case, find an auto-rickshaw or taxi driver and set the task of where you want to live, in what conditions and for what approximately money. In this case, they can sometimes take you to the desired hotel for free, and even show you several places to choose from. It is clear that the price immediately increases; there is no point in haggling, since the taxi driver’s commission is already included in the price. But sometimes, when you are lazy or in the middle of the night, using this method can be very convenient.
Book online
This is for those who like certainty and guarantees, more comfort and less adventure.
Well, if you book in advance, then book hotels of higher quality and not too cheap (at least $30-40 per room), because otherwise there is no guarantee that in reality everything will be as wonderful as in the photographs. They also complained to me that sometimes they arrived at a booked hotel, and the rooms, despite the reservation, were already occupied. The hotel owners were not embarrassed, they said that a client came with money, and the client with cash did not have the willpower to refuse. The money was returned, of course, but it’s still a shame.
Finding, checking into and staying in inexpensive Indian hotels can be an adventure in itself, a source of fun and sometimes not so much fun. happy memories. But there will be something to tell you at home later.
Settlement technology
- Free yourself from the presence of “Hindu assistants” and barkers, their presence automatically increases the cost of accommodation.
- Go to a hotel that seems worthy of you and ask how much it costs and decide whether it’s worth living there, at the same time you have time to evaluate the interior and helpfulness.
- Be sure to ask to see the room before checking in, show your dissatisfaction and indignation with all your appearance, ask to see another room, most likely it will be better. You can do this several times, achieving everything better conditions placement.
Those who are interested in the energy of Osho and Buddha, meditation and India, we invite you all on a journey to the places where the greatest mystic of the 20th century Osho was born, lived the first years of his life and gained enlightenment! In one trip we will combine the exoticism of India, meditation, and absorb the energy of Osho’s places!
The tour plan also includes visits to Varanasi, Bodhgaya and possibly Khajuraho (subject to availability of tickets)
Key travel destinations
Kuchvada
A small village in central India, where Osho was born and lived for the first seven years, surrounded and cared for by his loving grandparents. There is still a house in Kuchvad that has remained exactly as it was when Osho's life. Also next to the house there is a pond, on the banks of which Osho loved to sit for hours and watch the endless movement of the reeds in the wind, funny Games and the flights of herons over the surface of the water. You will be able to visit Osho's house, spend time on the banks of the pond, stroll through the village, and absorb that serene spirit of rural India, which undoubtedly had an initial influence on the formation of Osho.
In Kuchvad there is a fairly large and comfortable ashram under the patronage of sannyasins from Japan, where we will live and meditate.
A short video of the “emotional impression” of visiting Kuchvada and Osho’s house.
Gadarwara
At the age of 7, Osho and his grandmother moved to his parents in the small town of Gadarwara, where he passed his school years. By the way, classroom, where Osho studied still exists, and there is even a desk where Osho sat. You can go into this class and sit at the desk where our beloved master spent so much time in his childhood. Unfortunately, getting into this class is a matter of chance and luck, depending on which teacher teaches in the class. But in any case, you can walk along the streets of Gadarvara, visit the primary and high school, the house where Osho lived, Osho’s favorite river...
And most importantly, on the outskirts of the city there is a quiet, small and cozy ashram, where there is a place where, at the age of 14, Osho experienced a deep experience of death.
Video from Osho Ashram in Gadarwara
Jabalpur
A large city with more than a million inhabitants. In Jabalpur, Osho studied at the university, then worked there as a teacher and became a professor, but the main thing is that at the age of 21 he gained enlightenment, which happened to him in one of the parks of Jabalpur, and the tree under which this happened still grows old place.In Jabalpur we will live in a quiet and cozy ashram with a magnificent park.
From the ashram it is easy to get to the Marble Rocks - a natural wonder where Osho loved to spend time during his stay in Jabalpur.
Varanasi
Varanasi is famous for its cremation pyres, which burn day and night. But it also has a surprisingly pleasant promenade, the famous Kashi Vishwanath Temple, and boat rides on the Ganges. Near Varanasi there is a small village called Sarnath. famous for that, that Buddha gave his first sermon there, and the first listeners were ordinary deer.
bodhgaya
Buddha's Enlightenment Place. In the main temple of the city, which is surrounded by a beautiful and vast park, a tree still grows in the shade of which Buddha gained enlightenment.
In addition, in Bodhgaya there are many different Buddhist temples erected by followers of Buddha from many countries: China, Japan, Tibet, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma... Each temple has its own unique architecture, decorations, ceremonies.
Khajuraho
Khajuraho itself is not directly connected with Osho, except that Osho often mentioned the tantric temples of Khajuraho, and his grandmother was directly related to Khajuraho.
