Stupa in a sentence

Every year the stupa attracts many Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims who perform full body prostrations in the inner lower enclosure, walk around the stupa with prayer wheels, chant, and pray.

Additionally, subsidence has caused four smaller stupas as well as four surrounding mondop structures to lean slightly towards the main stupa.

Gya Village located in Ladakh is the home to an ice stupa built by youth of the village in the Indian Union territory.

P also lived there – beautiful, helpful fairies, says Parvi – although neither creature helped with building the ice stupa.

Laos’ most important landmark is the Pha That Luang, a golden Buddhist stupa in Vientiane, while the capital’s other highlights include temples like Wat Si Saket and the old quarter.

The ASI took the Buddhist stupa in its custody in 1994.

The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya, standing 108 feet tall, it is one of the most significant examples of sacred Buddhist architecture in North America.

The stupa which is considered sacred to Buddhists all over the world was built by King Dutugemunu in the 140 B.C., who reigned over the country after defeating Tamil King Elara.

Achievements include the construction of the largest reservoirs and dams of the ancient world as well as enormous pyramid-like Stupa (Dāgaba in Sinhalese ) architecture.

And, in those caves, it is the stupa that is the object of veneration, not the image.

The Museum is within a short walk from the Boudhnath stupa, which itself can be seen from the Museum tower.

The other type of main hall is the narrower and higher chaitya hall with a stupa as the focus at the far end, and a narrow aisle around the walls, behind a range of pillars placed close together.

There is also a small Porites stupa in the Museum where the directional Dhyani Buddhas (Jinas) are etched in its four cardinal points as in the Mahayana tradition.

There is a stupa behind Wat Phnom that house the remains of Ponhea Yat and the royal family as well as the remaining Buddhist statues from the Angkorean era.

The second phase of Ajanta shows that the stupa and image coincided together.

The stupa consists of a dome at the base; above the dome, there is a cubic structure with the eyes of Buddha looking in all four directions.

The stupa, which was later excavated, dates to 500 CE.

Thousands of prayer flags are hoisted up from the top of the stupa downwards and dot the perimeter of the complex.

Tibetan child with a prayer wheel 1905 illustration of monks with prayer wheels Stupa & prayer wheels.