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: a usually dome-shaped structure (such as a mound) serving as a Buddhist shrine
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In the 1970s another remarkable stupa at Dhulikatta produced a further series of treasures.
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William Dalrymple, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
Many are from the ruins of the great stupa at Bharhut, in central India, built around 250 B.C. and excavated after its rediscovery in 1873.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
Visitors are encouraged to show respect and observe silence while at the stupa, allowing everyone to experience its peaceful ambiance.
—The Arizona Republic, 28 July 2023
The stupa is a recurrent visual theme in the Met exhibition.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 July 2023
And a sculptural depiction of a stupa, carved in relief on a limestone panel, opens the show.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 July 2023
Bhutan’s famous 10,200-foot-high Dochu La pass, with its 108 stupas and views of the Himalayas.
—Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 8 June 2023
In 2013, Sonam Wangchuk, an engineer in Ladakh, invented the first ice stupa as a solution for the extreme droughts plaguing the region, Matteo Spagnolo, a geoscientist at the University of Aberdeen in the U.K. writes in the Conversation.
—Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2021
At Long Beach’s first Sankranta festival to celebrate the Cambodian new year, people knelt and prayed at a mound of sand called a stupa, decorated with bright yellow flowers to honor ancestors.
—Jeong Park, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023
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William Dalrymple, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
Many are from the ruins of the great stupa at Bharhut, in central India, built around 250 B.C. and excavated after its rediscovery in 1873.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
Visitors are encouraged to show respect and observe silence while at the stupa, allowing everyone to experience its peaceful ambiance.
—The Arizona Republic, 28 July 2023
The stupa is a recurrent visual theme in the Met exhibition.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 July 2023
And a sculptural depiction of a stupa, carved in relief on a limestone panel, opens the show.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 July 2023
Bhutan’s famous 10,200-foot-high Dochu La pass, with its 108 stupas and views of the Himalayas.
—Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 8 June 2023
In 2013, Sonam Wangchuk, an engineer in Ladakh, invented the first ice stupa as a solution for the extreme droughts plaguing the region, Matteo Spagnolo, a geoscientist at the University of Aberdeen in the U.K. writes in the Conversation.
—Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2021
At Long Beach’s first Sankranta festival to celebrate the Cambodian new year, people knelt and prayed at a mound of sand called a stupa, decorated with bright yellow flowers to honor ancestors.
—Jeong Park, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023
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Sanskrit stūpa
First Known Use
1841, in the meaning defined above
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