Outstanding type of architectural creation of ancient Sri Lanka.
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Examples for "stupas"
Examples for "stupas"
1He founded rest houses and hospitals, as well as monasteries and thousands of stupas.
2The countryside is dotted with pagodas, stupas and monasteries.
3All stupas represent the Buddha Mind, and circling it is believed to bring one closer to enlightenment.
4Ship, combined from an early formation of three hulls, now resembles two ancient stupas joined at their bases.
5Packed full of ancient Buddhist temples and stupas for your day trips, Laos also offers the Viengxay Caves.
1The rock-hewn temples and the yet more strange dagobas of India now belong to science.
2Near the monastery stand the sombre dagobas where repose the ashes of former abbots and monastery officials.
3The best dagobas were crumbling, immense tanks broken, and general devastation succeeded where splendor had long reigned.
4We had to get there before dusk: the sunset over the dagobas was the best in Sri Lanka, they said.
5Sir Emmerson Tennent, in his delightful work on Ceylon, describes one of these dagobas, that of Jayta-wana-rama, erected by Mahasen, A.D. 330:-