Question

what is stupa??
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Answer 1

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Stupa, Buddhist commemorative monument usually housing sacred relics associated with the Buddha or other saintly persons. The hemispherical form of the stupa appears to have derived from pre-Buddhist burial mounds in India. ... Even when the stupa is sheltered by a building, it is always a freestanding monument.

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Answer 2

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→ A stupa is a somewhat hemispherical structure that contains the relics or the remains of Buddhist Monks and Nuns, and is used as a place for meditation. Sometimes a stupa is contained inside another architectural structure called ‘Chaitya’

As we know, The tallest stupa in the world is located in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka and is called Jetavanaramaya Stupa. It is 120 meters tall.

→ Other than the South Asian subcontinent, Stupas are also found in Europe. One of them is the Benalmadena Stupa which is the tallest stupa in the whole of Europe.

→ The European stupas are not much old as they were built around the 19th and 20th centuries.

Know more, After the death of Gautama Buddha, his body was cremated and his ashes were divided into eight relics. Each of these relics were buried under eight different mounds in different places in India. The mounds in which these relics were buried are known as stupas. Later in the 3rd century CE, King Ashoka recovered these relics from the eight stupas and divided them further into 84,000 relics and erected 84,000 stupas all across India to contain all the individual relics.

→The Sanchi Stupa and the Kesariya Stupa are two of the oldest Stupas that King Ashoka erected. The word ‘stupa’ was first read from the inscriptions by King Ashoka on his Nighali Sagar Pillar. It was written in Pali language and in Brahmi script