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: a usually dome-shaped structure (such as a mound) serving as a Buddhist shrine
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But in 2022, Chilean engineers built similar ice stupa prototypes in the Andes.
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Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2024
All around me, amid a handful of stupas and temples, were the flattened foundations of buildings in the religious complex.
—Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
The exhibit fans out around a structure that replicates the form of a Buddhist stupa.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
He’s first seen strolling through photogenic golden fields, circling a stone stupa on his way to visit an elderly lama (real-deal lama Kelsang Choejey).
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Oct. 2023
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Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2024
All around me, amid a handful of stupas and temples, were the flattened foundations of buildings in the religious complex.
—Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
The exhibit fans out around a structure that replicates the form of a Buddhist stupa.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
He’s first seen strolling through photogenic golden fields, circling a stone stupa on his way to visit an elderly lama (real-deal lama Kelsang Choejey).
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Oct. 2023
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“Stupa.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stupa. Accessed 21 Oct. 2024.
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