Stupa | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 15/12/2018

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Stupa


00:00:30 1 Description and history
00:01:12 1.1 Mounds for the relics of the Buddha (5th century)
00:02:22 1.2 Expansion under Ashoka (250 BCE)
00:03:20 1.3 Decorated stupas (125 BCE-)
00:04:21 1.4 Development in Gandhara (3rd century BCE-5th century CE)
00:06:06 1.4.1 Origin of the pyramidal temple
00:07:24 1.5 Expansion in Asia
00:07:33 1.5.1 Asian stupas
00:08:50 1.5.2 Development of the Pagoda
00:09:28 2 Notable stupas
00:11:07 2.1 European stupas
00:12:02 2.2 Types of stupas
00:13:03 3 Symbolism
00:13:29 3.1 Five purified elements
00:14:03 4 Construction
00:14:31 4.1 Treasury
00:15:39 4.2 Tree of Life
00:16:16 4.3 Benefits
00:17:13 5 Tibetan stupas
00:17:36 5.1 Lotus Blossom Stupa
00:18:22 5.2 Enlightenment Stupa
00:18:48 5.3 Stupa of Many Doors
00:19:17 5.4 Stupa of Descent from the God Realm
00:19:50 5.5 Stupa of Great Miracles
00:20:22 5.6 Stupa of Reconciliation
00:20:45 5.7 Stupa of Complete Victory
00:21:04 5.8 Stupa of Nirvana
00:21:24 6 Kalachakra stupa
00:21:48 7 Swat District



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A stupa (Sanskrit: "heap") is a mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics (such as śarīra – typically the remains of Buddhist monks or nuns) that is used as a place of meditation. A related architectural term is a chaitya, which is a prayer hall or temple containing a stupa.
In Buddhism, circumambulation or pradakhshina has been an important ritual and devotional practice since the earliest times, and stupas always have a pradakhshina path around them.