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Stupas were built in Sri Lanka soon after Devanampiya Tissa of Anuradhapura converted to Buddhism. The first was the Thuparamaya . Later, many more were built over the years, including the Jetavanaramaya in Anuradhapura.
Large stupas were also built at Mihintale at the site where Arahat Mahinda met the king, Magama, Dighavapi (near Ampara), Kataragama and other places. The builders of ‘stupas’ in Sri Lanka had closely followed the designs of such monuments built in Sanchi and other places in India. In huge monuments, the dome rose from a triple-based platform.
Buddha statue in Borobudur (), the world's largest Buddhist temple.. Buddhist religious architecture developed in the Indian subcontinent.Three types of structures are associated with the religious architecture of early Buddhism: monasteries (), places to venerate relics (), and shrines or prayer halls (chaityas, also called chaitya grihas), which later came to be called temples in some places.
During the following centuries, especially under the Shungas and the Satavahanas, the Great Stupa was enlarged and decorated with gates and railings, and smaller stupas were also built in the vicinity, especially Stupa No.2, and Stupa No.3. [5] Simultaneously, various temple structures were also built, down to the Gupta Empire period
The stupa, built by a Theravada Buddhist society, is said to contain strands of the Buddha's hair. [29] [30] Built to be walked around, visitors pass astrological representations of the eight days of a Burmese week. The platform includes devotional centres at the cardinal compass points [27] and dozens of smaller stupas, including the Golden Elder.
Up to 11 Hindu temples have been built on Buddhist sites in the villages of Machilipatnam and Nidumolu, in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh. Buddhism flourished during the 1st and 2nd centuries CE. The buildings were converted into Hindu temples by Chalukyas. [29] Kachchi Kuti Kushan-era stupas, identified as the Anathapindika (or Sudatta ...
Stupas. According to legend, Ashoka built 84,000 stupas commemorating the events and relics of Buddha's life. Some of these stupas contained networks of walls containing the hub, spokes and rim of a wheel, while others contained interior walls in a swastika (卐) shape. The wheel represents the sun, time, and Buddhist law (the wheel of law, or ...
The pagoda, a prototype of Burmese stupas, [3] is like a bell-shaped stupa [8] in traditional Mon people, [9] [4] which became the prototype architectural feature for many stupas built in the then Burma (now Myanmar). [2] It has features of staircases, gates, and a richly ornamented spire fitted with a large golden umbrella type finial embedded ...