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105 fundamentals of Buddhist logic and philosophy mainly Tibetan ( from prominent teachers in ) general, and from His Holiness the Dalai Lama in particular . I adopted this approach and tried to interpret it in the buildings I designed . The holistic approach is a broad and universal approach and is at conflict with the mechanistic worldview currently common in the Western world . The holistic approach lies behind all those places including nature ( that make one feel connected ) to the basic "oneness" of existence - a value the mathematician and architect Christopher Alexander calls : The One - The Great Self . In his book The Timeless Way of Building Alexander writes, "There is one timeless way of building . It is thousands of years old, and the same today as it has always been . The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way . And as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form as the trees and hills, and as our faces are" . However, as I made my way along these paths that marked and enlightened me, and while climbing to the summit ) literally ( driving up the curving road to Dharamsala ) India ( , at the end of which I saw the temple and residence of H . H . the Dalai Lama, I realized that this is a journey I already went through, to these questions I already had been exposed, and that the answers I was searching for I already got . There in my childhood, at my grandmother's Rivka, in the Hotel "Tel Aviv" she founded 60 years ago in a small stone building at the end of an alley in the old city of Safed * . There was her and the extended family home, until the day she died . This experience had the greatest impact on my vision and worldview as how a place should "feel", what is a building with a soul - a place that makes us feel "at home" . The insight of what is that "Art of making" which possesses the power to create places endowed with soul, places which inspire a feeling of "a home" and the right state of mind needed to create them, I learned from the way my grandmother Rivka Shrine for safe journey prayer, Guizhou, China Photo by Adiel ) Portugali ( . bottom left : Cross Post for praying on the main road, Crete, Greece . Hanukah street menorah, Safed . The entrance to Hotel "Tel Aviv", Radbaz Alley, Safed . g Grandmother Rivka in the kitchen, Hotel "Tel Aviv", Safed ) taken from the film directed by Nili Portugali ( .
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פורטוגלי, נילי
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