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 stupa, which was later excavated, dates to 500 AD.

Monks were taken to Male and beheaded, The Satihirutalu ( the chattravali or chattrayashti crowning a stupa ) were broken to disfigure the numerous stupasm and the statues of Vairocana, the transcendent Buddha of the middle world region, were destroyed ; and the destruction was not limited to sculptures.

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

He made a pilgrimage to Bodhgaya and, as he was circumambulating the great stupa there, had a vision consisting of two materialisations of Tārā.

The present torana at the Sanchi stupa was built around first century BCE to first century CE, by the Satavahana dynasty in ancient India.

The seal of the province shows the stupa at Phra That Si Song Rak, which was built in 1560 by King Maha Chakrapat of the Ayutthaya kingdom and King Chai Chetha of Lan Xang as a symboil of friendship between the two kingdoms.

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

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

The original Indic design was gradually modified first by the Pyu, and then by Burmans at Bagan where the stupa gradually developed a longer, cylindrical form.

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.

Without the inner spaces seen in other temples, and with a general design similar to the shape of pyramid, Borobudur was first thought more likely to have served as a stupa, instead of a temple.

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.

During the later rule of the Sunga, the stupa was expanded with stone slabs to almost twice its original size.

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

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.

An area of the Zentralfriedhof has been set aside for this purpose with a stupa in the middle, and was consecrated by a Tibetan monk.

The stupa, a dome shaped monument, was used as a commemorative monument associated with storing 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.

The stupa is the oldest Buddhist religious monument and was originally only a simple mound of mud or clay to cover relics of the Buddha ( cetiya ).

Stupas were built in Sri Lanka soon after King Devanampiyatissa converted to Buddhism, the first stupa to be built was the Thuparamaya.

One such stupa was discovered at Sopara, an ancient port near Mumbai, and is believed to be one of the most ancient stupas in the world.

This stupa refers to various miracles performed by the Buddha when he was 50 years old.

On the other hand, Sir John Marshall noted that the Sanchi stupa was vandalized during the 2nd century before it was rebuilt later on a larger scale, suggesting the possibility that the original brick stupa built by Ashoka was destroyed by Pusyamitra and then restored by his successor Agnimitra.

The stupa had been much vandalized and was merely a low mound of rubble and sand.

* 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 stupa at Dambulla ( Sri Lanka ) is constructed.

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

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 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 stupa is characterized by having a central projection at each side containing a triple ladder or steps.

Later on, South India produced several Hindu temples like Chennakesava Temple at Belur, the Hoysaleswara Temple at Halebidu, and the Kesava Temple at Somanathapura, Brihadeeswara Temple, Thanjavur, the Sun Temple, Konark, Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple at Srirangam, and the Buddha stupa ( Chinna Lanja dibba and Vikramarka kota dibba ) at Bhattiprolu.

* ( German ) info about the new stupa with Dhardo's ashes at Vimaladhatu

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 ).

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

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

By the 11th century, the stupa had developed into a more bell-shaped form in which the parasols morphed into a series of increasingly smaller rings placed on one top of the other, rising to a point.

The upper platform features seventy-two small stupas surrounding one large central stupa.

The inscriptions were found on a vase inside a stupa, dated to the reign of Menander or one his successors in the 1st century BCE ( Tarn, p391 ):

The centre includes one of the first Tibetan temples to be constructed in Western Europe, a large stupa, and accommodation for those taking a range of courses on Buddhism, meditation, spiritual development and art.

A mile from Shar-i-Napursan A mound which contains the remains of a stupa, which according to Hieun Tsiang, was built by one Deven and some coins which connect them both to the first century AD have been unearthed Other finds include the image of the goddess Kalika-devi.

The pommel of the kīla often bears three faces of Vajrakīla, one joyful, one peaceful, one wrathful, but may bear the umbrella of the ashtamangala or mushroom cap, ishtadevata ( like Hayagriva ), snow lion, or stupa, among other possibilities.

The top of stupa tilted to one side, and the bricks and mortar supporting the stupa crumbled off, and many relics were broken.

In the four chambers of the stupa were placed colossal stucco images of seated Buddha of which three were found in situ but the remaining one on north side was possibly replaced by a stone image after the clay image was somehow damaged.

Rising to a height of 104 feet, and much reduced from its reported original height, it is still one foot taller than the famous Borobudur stupa in Java.

Opposite one entrance stood a stupa.

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 ".

For example, contemplation of the infinite compassion of Buddha, as one makes one's way to Shwedagon's great stupa, is a good karmic deed.

There was pillaging and vandalism, and one officer's excuse for digging a tunnel into the depths of the stupa was to find out if it could be used as a gunpowder magazine.

On the north side, above the chapels of the chanting hall is the funerary stupa of the First Dalai Lama, the only one not entombed in Lhasa.