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Stupa

Places

A named Buddhist relic mound and circumambulation form. Not a pagoda, not a ziggurat, and not a cairn.

Also known as Buddhist stupa · Chaitya mound

Buddhist traditions

  • Stupa appears in Buddhist traditions.

    The Lotus Sutra names the stupa, the relic mound and circumambulation form, among the honors of that Mahāyāna text. A named Buddhist mound in that sūtra, not a pagoda tower and not a cairn.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)

    Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.