Explore: Stupas

structure. In large stupas, there may be walkways for circumambulation on top of the base as well as on the ground below it. Large stupas have, or had, vedikā

glaciers". Video about Ice stupa Adaptation: Ice stupas of Ladakh PBS series hosted by climate researcher Alizé Carrère [1] Ice stupas of the Ladakh desert:

Additional stupas were built further along the northern portion of the site by various patrons, and date from the Indo-Scythian period. These stupas form a

of Sanchi Stupa No.2. The stupas which seem to have been commissioned during the rule of the Shungas are the Second and then the Third stupas (but not

many stupas were built, some colossal stupas, biggest of which is Jetavanaramaya. There are two recorded instances regarding the construction of stupas in

as one of the four stupas found by the Licchavi king Vrisadeva (c. 400 CE) or Vikramjit. Second, the Newars legend of the stupa's origin attributes it

placed inside perforated stupas. The first circular platform has 32 stupas, the second 24 and the third 16, which adds up to 72 stupas. Of the original 504

Loriyan Tangai stupas and the addition of schist reliefs. The stupa was rebuilt under Kushan rule in the 4th century CE into a cruciform stupa with a tower-like

the eight different forms that stupas are built. Whereas stupas are typically sealed structures, the Benalmádena Stupa is unusual as there is a 100 square

beautiful star atop a stupa, rock cut massive stupas inside chaitya grihas, brick stupas with wheel pattern plan, votive stupas, inscriptions on the steps