Meanings of dagobas in English

The rock-hewn temples and the yet more strange dagobas of India now belong to science.

Near the monastery stand the sombre dagobas where repose the ashes of former abbots and monastery officials.

The best dagobas were crumbling, immense tanks broken, and general devastation succeeded where splendor had long reigned.

We had to get there before dusk: the sunset over the dagobas was the best in Sri Lanka, they said.

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:-

Beyond them, towering up into the clear sky, rose at different distances several of those prodigious structures, the dagobas, which I have described.

Some buildings are still standing; among these are two dagobas, huge monuments of bricks, formerly covered with white cement, and elaborately decorated with different devices.

Dagobas were reserved for relics of the Buddha, and this act appeared to be one of deliberate sacrilege.

The Dagobas, or shrines of relics, which abound in such numbers in Thibet, have also been found in India and other countries.