Apart from the stupa, there are pits from which the bodies were exhumed.

* A 2nd century BC relief from a Buddhist stupa in Bharhut, in eastern Madhya Pradesh ( today at the Indian Museum in Calcutta ), represents a foreign soldier with the curly hair of a Greek and the royal headband with flowing ends of a Greek king, and may be a depiction of Menander.

* According to an ancient Sri Lankan source, the Mahavamsa, Greek monks seem to have been active proselytizers of Buddhism during the time of Menander: the Yona ( Greek ) Mahadhammarakkhita () is said to have come from " Alasandra " ( thought to be Alexandria of the Caucasus, the city founded by Alexander the Great, near today ’ s Kabul ) with 30, 000 monks for the foundation ceremony of the Maha Thupa (" Great stupa ") at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka, during the 2nd century BC:

The Bagan stupas or pagodas evolved from earlier Pyu designs, which in turn were based on the stupa designs of the Andhra region, particularly Amaravati and Nagarjunakonda in present-day southeastern India, and to a smaller extent to Ceylon.

Extending up from the top of the stupa was a shaft supporting several ceremonial umbrellas.

A 9th century CE Srivijaya n art bronze Maitreya from South Sumatra, a stupa adorn his crown.

Buddha relics from Kanishka's stupa in Peshawar, Pakistan, now in Mandalay, Burma ( Teresa Merrigan, 2005 )

In rare cases the whole body is conserved, for example in the case of Dudjom Rinpoche, after his death his physical body was moved a year later from France and placed in a stupa in one of his main monasteries near Boudhanath, Nepal in 1988.

The increasing popularity of the stupa brings in many visitors, most of whom are from Indonesia.

Borobudur is built as a single large stupa, and when viewed from above takes the form of a giant tantric Buddhist mandala, simultaneously representing the Buddhist cosmology and the nature of mind.

It extended from southern Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, north of the Amu Darya ( Oxus ) in the north west to Northern India, as far as Mathura in the south east ( the Rabatak inscription even claims he held Pataliputra and Sri Champa ), and his territory also included Kashmir, where there was a town Kanishkapur, named after him not far from the Baramula Pass and which still contains the base of a large stupa.

The is a transformation from the Indian mound-like reliquary structure called a stupa.

Accordingly, the importance of a stupa changed from being a funerary monument to being an object of veneration.

They evolved into large hemispherical mounds with features such as the torana ( gateway ), the vedica ( fence-like enclosure evolved from the vedic villages ), the harmika ( a square platform with railings on top of the stupa ), chattrayashti ( the parasol or canopy ) and a circumambulatory around the stupa.

The main stupa is only the crown part of the monument, while the base is pyramidal structure elaborate with galleries adorned with bas relief of scenes derived from Buddhist text depicted the life of Siddharta Gautama.

Buddha relics from Kanishka stupa | Kanishka's stupa in Peshawar, Pakistan.

To build a stupa, transmissions and ceremonies from a Buddhist teacher is necessary.

The Triratna can be found on frieze sculptures at Sanchi as the symbol crowning a flag standard ( 2nd century BCE ), as a symbol of the Buddha installed on the Buddha's throne ( 2nd century BCE ), as the crowning decorative symbol on the later gates at the stupa in Sanchi ( 2nd century CE ), or, very often on the Buddha footprint ( starting from the 1st century CE ).

Artefacts from the excavation of the Buddhist stupa of Mirpurkhas, were housed in the Museum in 1919.

A spring was said to flow from the base of the stupa to form the lake.

The Buddhist Sanskrit Vinaya text sutras, while explaining the benefits of circumambulating the stupa of the Lord of the world, emphasize that even: " One hundred maidens of Kamboj ( satam Kambojakanam kanyanam ) wearing jeweled earrings, with circlets of gold upon their arms and adorned with rings and necklaces of the finest gold ; one hundred elephants, snowy white, robust and broad-backed, adorned with gold and jewels, carrying their great trunks curved over their heads like plowshares, could not even begin to equal one sixteenth part of the value of one step of one circum-ambulation ".

The Chinese word for stupa, ta, is an abbreviated translation ( from tapo ) of the Sanskrit Stupa.

In the apsidal end of the chaitya hall is a stupa on the face of which a colossal 3. 30 m high seated Buddha in vyakhyana mudra ( teaching posture ) is carved.

The Bai Ta ( White Pagoda ) is a 40 m high stupa placed on the highest point on Qiónghuá Island.

There are a couple of places of interests in Singosari such as the Candi Singosari, dated to the 13th century, Sumberawan stupa and the 3339 m high Mount Arjuna.

Bharhut or Barhut ( Hindi: भरह ु त Bharhut ), is a location in Satna district in Madhya Pradesh, Central India, known for its famous Buddhist stupa.

Within walking distance are " Water Cave " and " Stupa Cave ", which contains the ruins of an old stupa.

After a detailed study of Buddhist literature and the sculptures from the site, he published in 1876 a book titled " The Stupa of Bharhut ", which is still an authentic book about the Bharhut stupa.

The Mathura lion capital, an Indo-Scythian sandstone capital from Mathura in Central India, and dated to the 1st century CE, describes in kharoshthi the gift of a stupa with a relic of the Buddha, by queen Nadasi Kasa, " the wife of Rajuvula " and " daughter of Aiyasi Kamuia ", which was an older view supported by Bühler, Rapson, Lüders and others.

The capital describes, among other donations, the gift of a stupa with a relic of the Buddha, by Queen Aiyasi Kamuia, the " chief queen of the Indo-Scythian ruler of Mathura, strap Rajuvula ", mentioned as the " daughter of Kharaosta Kamuio " ( See: Mathura Lion Capital inscriptions below ).

XXIX ) records that during Menander's reign, " a Greek (" Yona ") Buddhist head monk " named Mahadharmaraksita ( literally translated as ' Great Teacher / Preserver of the Dharma ') led 30, 000 Buddhist monks from " the Greek city of Alexandria " ( possibly Alexandria-of-the-Caucasus, around 150 km north of today's Kabul in Afghanistan ), to Sri Lanka for the dedication of a stupa, indicating that Buddhism flourished in Menander's territory and that Greeks took a very active part in it.

* Paya, Burmese for stupa or pagoda, also meaning ' God '

It is known as the Kyaukthanban Pagoda or stupa ( literal meaning: stone boat stupa ).

Originally, a Indian / Ceylonese stupa had a hemispheric body (, " the egg ") on which a rectangular box surrounded by a stone balustrade ( harmika ) was set.

Sotoba Komachi (" Komachi on the stupa ") is a Noh play reworked from the ancient original by Mishima Yukio for the modern theater.

During the time of Menander I, the Yona ( Ionian ) Mahadhammarakkhita () is said to have come from “ Alasandra ” ( thought to be Alexandria-of-the-Caucasus, the city founded by Alexander the Great, near today ’ s Kabul ) with 30, 000 monks for the foundation ceremony of the Maha Thupa (" Great stupa ") at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka, during the 2nd century BCE.

In the Mahavamsa, a key Pali historical text, he is recorded as having travelled from “ Alasandra ” ( thought to be Alexandria of the Caucasus, around 150 kilometers north of today's Kabul, or possibly Alexandria of the Arachosians ), with 30, 000 monks for the dedication ceremony of the Maha Thupa (" Great stupa ") at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka, when it was completed shortly after the death of the Sri Lankan king Dutthagamani Abhaya ( r. 161-137 BCE ).

In Buddhist literature, the Greek ( Pali: Yona, lit: " Ionian ") Buddhist monk Mahadhammarakkhita () is said to have come from “ Alasandra ” ( thought to be Alexandria of the Caucasus ), with 30, 000 monks for the foundation ceremony of the Maha Thupa (" Great stupa ") at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka:

A series of visits to the city of Graz by the Dalai Lama in 1995, 1998 ( for the consecration of a large stupa ), and in 2002 ( to speak on " Kalachakra for World Peace ") became a strong encouragement for Buddhists in Austria.

The Asociación Cultural Tibetana A. C. (" Garuda ") is constructing a stupa at Los Álamos, Valle de Bravo, Mexico State under the patronage of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.

The ancient Jetavanaramaya stupa in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka is one of the largest brick structures in the world.

There is also a small Porites stupa in the Museum where the directional Dhyani Buddhas ( Jinas ) are etched in its four cardinal points as in the Mahayana tradition.

Deekshabhoomi, the largest hollow stupa or the largest dome shape monument and an important place of dalit buddhist movement, is located in Nagpur.

To the southeast of the gilded stupa is the most popular recreational area in the city – Kandawgyi Lake.

It is designed as a Tibetan style chorten, also called as the Jangchup Chorten, patterned on the design of a classical stupa, with a pyramidal pillar crowned by a crescent of Moon and Sun.

Each reliquary is then encased in its own burial mound, called stupa.

Today, Choeung Ek is a memorial, marked by a Buddhist stupa.

The stupa has acrylic glass sides and is filled with more than 5, 000 human skulls.

One such shrine to the west of the temple is the Phra Si Ratana Chedi, a 19th-century stupa built in Sri Lankan style enshrining ashes of the Buddha.

The stupa at Dambulla ( Sri Lanka ) is constructed.

A stupa, also called a pagoda, is a massive structure, typically with a relic chamber inside.

The stupa is a representation of the Buddhist cosmos: its shape symbolizes Mount Meru while the umbrella mounted on the brickwork represents the world's axis.

This spot is marked by the Animeshlocha Stupa, that is, the unblinking stupa or shrine, which is located on the north-east of the Mahabodhi Temple complex.

A stupa is a building created specifically for the relics.

A main dome, located at the center of the top platform, is surrounded by 72 Buddha statues seated inside a perforated stupa.

Borobudur's main stupa, which is empty and raised a mystery when discovered

Each stupa is bell-shaped and pierced by numerous decorative openings.

Kāmadhātu is represented by the base, Rupadhatu by the five square platforms ( the body ), and Arupadhatu by the three circular platforms and the large topmost stupa.

A stupa is intended as a shrine for the Buddha.