How is the shape of the round stupa with dome differ from the pillar? What impression do you think the builders were trying to make? How does that contrast to the impression of the pillar?
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Before Buddhism, great teachers were buried in mounds. ... The mound of earth covered them up. Thus, the domed shape of the stupa came to represent a person seated in meditation much as the Buddha was when he achieved Enlightenment and knowledge of the Four Noble Truths.
Before Buddhism, great teachers were buried in mounds. ... The mound of earth covered them up. Thus, the domed shape of the stupa came to represent a person seated in meditation much as the Buddha was when he achieved Enlightenment and knowledge of the Four Noble Truths.
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