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Roga Diti Pit Gan- Ya- Brhat- Pa- Antar Jaya Sav Indra Savit Rajay Apah Rud- Apav- hi ti Pap. Agni Mrga Anila A- Mu- Bhal- So- B ...

platform at the top of the curvilinear superstructure). Ex- tending the dimensions of the brahmastha ̄na, the necking above this ...

In the Kan:d:ar ̄ıya Maha ̄deva Temple at Khajuraho (c. 1025–1050), for example, space for the worshiper within the closed hall ...

tended for devotional worship. Large free-standing stupas as ritual centers continue to mark major Buddhist sites in South Asia, ...

sculptural reliefs also show thatch-domed structures with arched entrances, which shelter small stupas or relic contain- ers as ...

range from Nepal through East Asia, although these draw on a different architectural language for their sheltering roofs. The di ...

Stone, Elizabeth Rosen. The Buddhist Art of Na ̄ga ̄rjunakonda. Delhi, 1994. Definitive study of archaeological evidence from th ...

were enshrined the main devotional images of the worship complex. Worshipers could enter Buddha halls, in contrast to pagodas, w ...

sometimes near their burial sites and other times on sacred Buddhist peaks. Second-grade temple compounds often were commissione ...

ture of a Lamaist Buddhist temple compound in China is the bulb-shaped pagoda known as a dagoda, often painted white. The Lamais ...

many of the monasteries of the sacred Buddhist peak Koya, trace their origins to this period. So does the Eastern Monas- tery, T ...

ried construction—derive largely from India, often via Nepal. The main inspiration for building materials and tech- niques, as w ...

Bsam yas is replaced by movement along an axis. Height is however used to differentiate the mural paintings of the in- ternal wa ...

monastic rooms, and Dalai Lama’s living apartments or fu- nerary stupas. The adjoining Red Palace to the east was erect- ed by t ...

knowledged, even in the absence of general agreement about its interpretation. It may be regarded as a stupa elevated upon a seq ...

in the sculptures of the ambulatory, enters the sanctuary to find dramatically re-created the Buddha’s smile, the miracle of the ...

texts. The situation in classical Cambodia was somewhat similar; in form, Buddhist sanctuaries were indistinguishable from Hindu ...

Pichard, Pierre. “Le hall d’ordination dans le monastère thai.” Bul- letin de l’École Française d’Extrême-Orient 87 (2000): 125– ...

fectural capital. Later the same year, he built a hall for the worship of Laozi in his Flourishing Celebration palace com- plex. ...

time, many of the palaces and abbeys have burned or other- wise been destroyed, including the Golden Hall. Many con- sider the P ...