| It's a constant visual smorgasbord of stupas, of prayer-wheels, of prayer-flags and chortens. |
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| Aihole is one of those remarkable sites that span time and has evidence of dolmens, Buddhist chaityas and stupas, Jain and Hindu temples. |
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| At the higher levels these spirits overlap strongly with Buddhism and are embodied in stupas and temples. |
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| Alexander Cunningham along with Captain F.C.Maisey discovered this location that contained some important Buddhist stupas and monasteries. |
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| At first, the Kushans attacked Buddhism but eventually they became great patrons, building many monasteries and stupas. |
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| Larger villages may have a community temple, a community mill, and religious monuments called stupas and chorten. |
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| Scholarship came from the Buddhist monks and their viharas, stupas and monasteries. |
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| Holy words, written in stone, fill marble slabs housed in 729 stupas at the Kuthodaw Pagoda. |
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| The custom of erecting stupas over the remains of great saints and lamas also continued in Tibet. |
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| The two were very encouraged, so they wrote two poems along with their names on 1000 stupas and set them adrift on the sea. |
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| Then three circular terraces respectively support 32, 24 and 16 openwork stupas containing an image of the Buddha. |
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| To the south of the pathway is a cluster of votive stupas built by kings, princes, noblemen, and lay people. |
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| Also on display and sale will be Bhutanese handicrafts like prayer bells, traditional woven textiles, stupas and gold plated statues of the Buddha. |
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| Although these are Hindu buildings, their high-terraced shrine roofs bear tiers of elongated and gadrooned stupas. |
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| The scenes on these stupas depict not only the great events of the Buddha's last life but also those of his previous births as well. |
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| He is credited with having built 84,000 stupas as well as having disseminated Buddhism to neighbouring countries. |
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| The open air stupas, called Chortens, and the temples in Bhutan are rich repositories of highly valuable art and artefacts. |
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| It was built like an immense entire temple dedicated to the monk, surrounded by 4 large stupas, with each cardinal point. |
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| The reverse offers a view of the temple's upper terraces, with the main giant stupa surrounded by the three symmetrical rings of smaller stupas. |
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| Having spent some years in China he returned to Tibet where he continued teaching as well as constructing many stupas and shrines. |
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| Today, despite all the bombs, the golden stupas of the hill Oudong still a very pleasant walk. |
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| Over the years, many stupas and monasteries have been built representing Buddhist communities of numerous countries from around the world. |
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| Maitreya Project will contain 100,000 stupas of varying sizes and traditional styles. |
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| Nalanda is a massive complex of stupas, chaityas and viharas. |
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| The temple's courtyard has scores of small shrines and votive stupas. |
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| This is why you cannot find a single trace of Buddhist structures today in India, save for a few stupas, which were too cumbersome to be destroyed. |
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| Along this path there are significant places associated with events that immediately followed the Buddha's Enlightenment, together with votive stupas and shrines. |
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| Today Lumbini has been enlivened by the multitude of architecturally beautiful temples, stupas and monasteries built by various international Buddhist communities. |
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| Of photographic note: The wat compound is crowded with ornate stupas. |
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| That generates a completely single atmosphere in these holy places where the temples mix with the stupas, excessively pious people with the monks and various incarnations of Buddha with the Pantheon Hindu! |
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| The 72 openwork stupas on the circular terraces, with their barely visible internal Buddhas, symbolize incomplete states of enlightenment on the borders of manifestation. |
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| The walls and balustrades are decorated with fine low reliefs, covering a total surface area of 2,500 sq. m. Around the circular platforms are 72 openwork stupas, each containing a statue of the Buddha. |
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| His body was cremated and the relics were placed in monuments or stupas, some of which are believed to have survived until the present. |
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| He mounded so much honey on the top of the buns that they looked like miniature stupas. |
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| The Chach Nama records many instances of conversion of stupas to mosques such as at Nerun. |
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| Devastated cemeteries in Jordan, mutilated idols in Nepal and wrecked Buddhist stupas in Pakistan attest to the scope of demand in the northern countries. |
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| Magnificent stupas and sculptures are to be discovered. |
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| Marking the four corners of Patan, three of these stupas are merely mounds of earth with prayer wheels around them while the fourth near Shankamul is a beautiful concrete stupa. |
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| It was built in three tiers: a pyramidal base with five concentric square terraces, then three circular platforms of 72 openwork stupas and, at the top, a monumental stupa. |
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| From the two strikingly spired Buddhist stupas and billowing prayer flags in the mountains above Ms. Wolfe's home to the vast dry plains of the San Luis Valley below, it's easy to imagine that you are in Tibet. |
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| Today as part of the global initiative to promote Lumbini, many Buddhist communities from various countries have built or are building temples, monasteries or stupas near the Sacred Garden in the International Monastery Zone. |
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| The Facebook CEO arrived Sunday, when he climbed Borobudur temple in Central Java and posted a widely shared photo of himself atop its stupas on his Facebook page. |
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| Buddha's ashes were distributed all over the country and Stupas were built for them. |
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| Stupas in India and Tibet probably started out in a similar fashion, although they now generally contain the ashes of a Buddhist saint or lama. |
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