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Significats de cetiyas en anglès

Outstanding type of architectural creation of ancient Sri Lanka.

Sinònims
Examples for "stupas"
Examples for "stupas"
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He founded rest houses and hospitals, as well as monasteries and thousands of stupas.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
2
The countryside is dotted with pagodas, stupas and monasteries.
The Irish Times
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All stupas represent the Buddha Mind, and circling it is believed to bring one closer to enlightenment.
BBC
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Ship, combined from an early formation of three hulls, now resembles two ancient stupas joined at their bases.
Hull zero three
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Packed full of ancient Buddhist temples and stupas for your day trips, Laos also offers the Viengxay Caves.
The South African
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The rock-hewn temples and the yet more strange dagobas of India now belong to science.
Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples
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Near the monastery stand the sombre dagobas where repose the ashes of former abbots and monastery officials.
Buddhism and Buddhists in China
3
The best dagobas were crumbling, immense tanks broken, and general devastation succeeded where splendor had long reigned.
Travels in the Far East
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We had to get there before dusk: the sunset over the dagobas was the best in Sri Lanka, they said.
The Guardian
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Sir Emmerson Tennent, in his delightful work on Ceylon, describes one of these dagobas, that of Jayta-wana-rama, erected by Mahasen, A.D. 330:-
My First Voyage to Southern Seas