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.

* 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:

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The oldest known stupa is the Dhamek Stupa at Sarnath, India, while the tallest is the Phra Pathom Chedi in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, at a height of 127 metres.

This general view of the unexcavated Buddhist stupa near Baramulla, with two figures standing on the summit, and another at the base with measuring scales, was taken by John Burke in 1868.

The 9th century Borobudur Buddhist stupa in Central Java.

He was led to the mound by a Buddhist monk, who reportedly believed it to be a stupa.

* Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, a small town in Guntur District, on the river Krishna, noted for an early Buddhist stupa and a major Hindu temple

* 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.

Many Buddhist temples have stupas and historically, the placement of relics in a stupa often became the initial structure around which the whole temple would be based.

On September 11, 2012, the Government of Madhya Pradesh announced the University Of Buddhist and Indic Studies, which is being built in collaboration with the government of Sri Lanka and Bhutan and will be located at Sanchi, in close proximity to the stupa.

The Buddhist stupa, a dome shaped monument, was used in India as a commemorative monument associated with storing sacred relics.

The stupa architecture was adopted in Southeast and East Asia, where it became prominent as a Buddhist monument used for enshrining sacred relics.

The stupa emerged as a distinctive style of newari architecture and was adopted in Southeast and East Asia, where it became prominent as a Buddhist monument used for enshrining sacred relics.

* Psycho-cosmic symbolism of the Buddhist stupa.

Chedi is an alternative term for a Buddhist stupa, mainly used in Thailand.

A stupa ( from Sanskrit: m., स ् त ू प, stūpa, Sinhalese: ස ් ථ ූ පය, Pāli: थ ु प " thūpa ", literally meaning " heap ") is a mound-like structure containing Buddhist relics, typically the remains of Buddha, used by Buddhists as a place of worship.

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.

But in general stupa is used for a Buddhist structure of India or south-east Asia, while pagoda refers to a building in east Asia which can be entered and which may be secular in purpose.

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

Image: KunindaCoin. JPG | 2nd century BCE coin of the Kunindas, incorporating on the reverse the Buddhist triratna symbol on top of a stupa.

The imposing stupa enshrining the relic of Shakyamuni Buddha's finger bone, at Famen Temple, a Buddhist complex in Baoji, Shaanxi.

The Buddhist site at Ghazni is known as Tapar Sardar and consists of a stupa on a hilltop, surrounded by a row of smaller stupas.

The Buddhist stupa at Sanchi, built during the Mauryan period