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Stūpa (Sanskrit), a Buddhist monument or mausoleum, generally called 'tope' (from Pāli thūpa) in India and adjacent countries, means 'mound' or 'tumulus,' and the term chaitya (q.v.) had originally the same meaning, though it afterwards came to denote any memorial or sacred spot or sanctuary of any shape, whereas stūpas were always built in the shape of towers, surmounted by a cupola and one or more chattra ('parasols'). King Aśoka, the Buddhistic Constantine (3rd cent. B.C.), is said to have erected, within the space of three years, 84,000 stūpas in different parts of India, to preserve the remains of Buddha.
Stūpa (Sanskrit), a Buddhist monument or mausoleum, generally called 'tope' (from Pāli thūpa) in India and adjacent countries, means 'mound' or 'tumulus,' and the term chaitya (q.v.) had originally the same meaning, though it afterwards came to denote any memorial or sacred spot or sanctuary of any shape, whereas stūpas were always built in the shape of towers, surmounted by a cupola and one or more chattra ('parasols'). King Aśoka, the Buddhistic Constantine (3rd cent. B.C.), is said to have erected, within the space of three years, 84,000 stūpas in different parts of India, to preserve the remains of Buddha.
Stūpa.
Jolly, Julius (author)
1920-01-01
Jolly, Julius (1920) Stūpa. In: Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, 11 (1920), pp. 901-904
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