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	Stupa
		Thus this section of a stupa is an allusion to the primordial, creative waters.
		The womb is thus the symbol of the tomb.
		Hence in a sense, the journey to the stupa's top is a process of spiritual ascension, where the jewel lying at the end of the quest is Nirvana itself.
	www.exoticindiaart.com /read/stupa.htm (2151 words)

	The Stupa Information Page,find out what a buddhist stupa is
		The stupa represents the Buddha's body, his speech and his mind, but most especially his mind and every part shows the path to Enlightenment
		"The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity.
		Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure" - Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
	www.stupa.org.nz (286 words)

	Introduction to stupas
		"The stupa that enshrines the teacher's physical remains is at once a reminder of the teacher and the embodiment of the pure and all-pervasive aspect of the awakened state.
		Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate from confusion simply upon seeing their structure.
		The stupa is hewn into the solid rock of a large hill - and so cannot be seen from the foot of the hill - it has entrances through caves at the foot of the hill.
	www.stupa.org.nz /stupa/intro.htm (1157 words)

	Stupa : Chaitya : Chorten : Stupas are tower erected atop Hindu & Tibetan Buddhist Temple. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A Stupa is a tower or steeple erected atop Hindu and tibetan Buddhist temples.
		The stupa is a symbol for the elementary organization of the universe according to Hindu cosmology.
		Stupas may also be built in commemoration of high Lamas as a sign of merit accumulation, or for their funerals.
	www.himalayanmart.com /Stupa.php (1466 words)

	KPC Stupa
		In the presence of a stupa you can make prayers for your own spiritual aspirations, such as happiness, health, prosperity; for the well being of others, especially those who are sick, troubled or deceased; for peace on earth, and, of course, for the ultimate goal of enlightenment.
		By approaching a stupa with the altruistic intention to be of benefit to others, the blessings multiply for ourselves and all sentient beings.
		At KPC we are committed to building stupas around the world for the benefit of all sentient beings, In the West there are very few places where people can go to refresh their spirit and awaken and enliven their innate wisdom nature.
	www.tara.org /aboutstupas.htm (240 words)

	The Great Stupa of Sanchi
		Stupas commonly rest on a square pedestal and are carefully aligned with the four cardinal points of the compass.
		However, the stupa has also come to be known, on a smaller scale, as the reliquary itself and can be made of crystal, gold, silver or other precious metals.
		Stupas may be made of brick, brick and rubble, or encased in masonry.
	rogershepherd.com /WIW/solution12/stupa.html (1180 words)

	Miracle Stupa - Stupa
		Even though the interior of the Stupas is different and depends on their size, all of them contain the treasuries that are filled with various objects.
		Stupas are energy generators, which is initiated during a beautiful ceremony of placing the Tree of Life in the central channel of the Stupa.
		Sometimes the kind of the Stupa is directly connected with the events that have taken place in a given area.
	www.stupa.pl /en_stupa.html (1735 words)

	Stupa or Chorten
		Stupas range in size from miniatures meant to be put on a shrine as reliquary and/or a remembrance of the mind of the Buddha, to enormous buildings that serve as temples as well as monuments.
		Stupa of Tara Mandala and its sacred relics.
		HH Karmapa Rigpe Dorje consecrated the stupa in Huelo, Maui, Hawai'i.
	www.khandro.net /ritual_stupa_1.htm (2150 words)

	Oplysningsstupaen - Stupa
		Stupas are also a gift to all sentient beings, as a answer to the deeper meaning of life.
		Oberserving a stupa from the ground to the top, one sees the way of development.: Buddha, the precious buddhist teachings, the realized friends, the enligthend attitude and joy as foundation to enligthment.
		Stupas are build on the same principals, but at the same time each stupa is individual, and filled according to specific instructions.
	www.stupa.dk /uk/uk2_stupap.html (852 words)

	Buddhist Art and Architecture: Symbolism of the Stupa / Chorten
		The stupa, decorated by coral brought from the Mediterranean by an envoy of the Sri Lankan king who had an audience with the Roman Emporer Caesar Augustus, was restored by successive rulers.
		The stupa built by King Duttugamunu, is surrounded by an elephant wall, a restored design of an earlier expression.
		The Analogy with the Symbolism of the Stupa
	www.buddhanet.net /stupa.htm (381 words)

	KTTG - The Tashi Gomang Stupa
		A stupa is an architectural rendering of the Buddhist path, the stages and aspects of enlightenment.
		Through its design and contents, a stupa is regarded as having the power to transmit the essence of awakened mind, on the spot, to anyone ready to receive it.
		Also inside the stupa are earth, water, and stone from the eight great pilgrimage sites in India; wood from the Bodhi tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment, water from a cave of Milarepa, and other sacred objects.
	www.kttg.org /stupa.html (674 words)

	Sudarshanaloka Buddhist Retreat Centre Stupa
		A potent symbol of the path to enlightenment and a focus for practice and devotion, the Sudarshanaloka Retreat Centre stupa, containing relics of Dhardo Rimpoche, is the spiritual heart of Sudarshanaloka.
		The stupa has its origins in the heaps of earth and stones erected over the burial place of kings, from which it evolved into an elaborate architectural form redolent with symbolism and meaning, refined and individualised by each culture in which Buddhism took root.
		Dhardo Rimpoche, born Thubten Lhundup Legsang in 1917, was the tulku, or reincarnation of the chief abbot of the famous Drepung Monastery in central Tibet.
	www.sudarshanaloka.org /Sudarshanloka/stupa.html (914 words)

	History of the Stupa of Enlightenment at Gampo Abbey
		The stupa, he said, may be dedicated to world peace, and will become a tourist attraction that will bring many people to the spiritual path.
		That community is delighted that the stupa may bring tourists to the area and stimulate the local economy, in conjunction with a whale-watching and interpretation centre planned for Pleasant Bay.
		The stupa will be 24 feet high, and construction is being supervised by sangha architect David Garrett and sangha builder Don Beamish, both of whom collaborated to construct the Abbey's three-year retreat centre 10 years ago.
	www.gampoabbey.org /stupa/history.htm (505 words)

	Stupa
		A Stupa is the physical representation of the Buddhas mind and when consecrated is the same as having the Buddha actually present.
		This stupa removes the obstacles to manifesting the Dharma and the Monastery.
		In the stupa this is shown in the four stairs that are octagons.
	www.sunray.org /Stupa/stupa.html (384 words)

	stupa.html
		The stupa is probably easily visible by satellite hovering high above the earth’s surface and would certainly be one of the largest man-made objects in the entire region.
		The great stupa for world peace is a miraculous structure which will generate far reaching benefits to humanity and the entire world.
		The great stupa for world peace is certainly one of the major positive forces for world peace of our time and is an auspicious indication of the future evolution of the enlightenment of humanity, now and far into the future.
	www.omura.com /k_lingpa/stupa.html (682 words)

	stupa. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The stupa is probably derived from a pre-Buddhist burial mound.
		The earliest mound forms that can properly be termed stupas, those at Sanchi and Bharhut (see Indian art and architecture), are hemispherical masses of earth raised on a base and faced with brick or stone.
		Though in its development the stupa often became elaborate and complex, in its purest form the plan consisted of a circle within a square.
	www.bartleby.com /65/st/stupa.html (314 words)

	Miracle Stupa - News
		He was also very pleased when circulating the Stupa and when he learnt that the pumba was sculpted out of one, uniform 20 tone piece of granite rock.
		He walked along the building area a few times, kept giggling and repeated "Chorten O.K." - (Chorten - Stupa), he talked with Tsechoo Rinpoche on a telephone in Tibetan and one could feel that "everything is fine"; fotos; The third phase of hydroisolation, the Stupa's foundation is completely safe from the soil water.
		Stupa House Team put the second layer of hydro-isolation; prepared rods for the second slab, cut the rods for the second slab.
	www.stupa.pl /en_hist.html (1993 words)

	Benalmadena - Stupa
		There are various theories: that the origin of the Stupa was as a stake placed in the ground around which a tethered animal would walk in circles; or as a hill inside which a jar containing the ashes of a dead hero was placed.
		Stupas became a multi-purpose symbol, a real treasure of knowledge about phenomena, the universe, the nature of our mind and the way leading to the state of full development or enlightenment.
		Stupas are normally closed monoliths, which believers circumbulate and express their wishes as being in front of Buddha himself.
	www.stupabenalmadena.org /en/stupa_en.html (1060 words)

	Karma Guen Stupa - en
		Lopön Tsechu Rinpoche the Kalachakra stupa was constructed in the summer of 1994, from July 18 to September 12.
		This kind of stupa is very rare, it is only the third of its kind to be built in the world.
		The stupa was constructed without any obstacles, and in October 1994 it was inaugurated in the presence of people from all over the world, who were witness to many auspicious signs which appeared on that occasion.
	www.karmaguen.org /en/stupa_en.html (208 words)

	The stupa at Sacha Kutir in Denmark
		The site for the stupa was consecrated on the 17th of July 2004 and according to astrological calculations a Havan, fire ceremony, was performed there at 10:08 am.
		The spiritual foundation of the stupa are the three mantras: Prabhu Aapa Jago, which is our prayer for God to awake in all; Gayatri Mantra, which is our practice of singing for perceiving the enlightened awareness and the mantra of the Medicine Buddha, who came to us for healing.
		The wall of the underground section of the stupa, and the greyish area to the right is the chamber entrance.
	www.shantimayi.com /stupa/sacha_kutir_first.html (900 words)

	rediff.com: Ashoka stupa found in Orissa
		The stupa, encircled by a laterite wall and covered with burnt bricks, was unearthed during excavation by the Orissa Institute of Maritime and South East Asian studies under the supervision of its secretary archaeologist Debraj Pradhan.
		The stupa at Langudi hill is rectangular, with a diameter of 60 feet and uniform brick size.
		The inscription, deciphered by Prof B N Mukharjee of Calcutta University, says the stupa may have been built by a lay Buddhist worshipper called Ashoka and the accumulated height of Ashoka may be the height of the stupa or any other religious object dedicated to the stupa.
	www.rediff.com /news/2000/may/27ashok.htm (558 words)

	Stupa Worship \| Encyclopedia of Religion
		This latter term derives from references to the Buddha's relics as a dhātu ("element") and to the dome or "egg" (aṇḍa) of the stupa as a garbha ("womb" or "treasury").
		Had Śākyamuni died and remained within those cycles it would have been pointless to build a stupa for him, for not only would the place of his rebirth be unknown, but one could not have expected him to act on the requests of his believers.
		According to the Mahāparinibbāna Suttanta, stupas could be built to receive the remains of the following four types of people (known as thūparahā, "worthy of stupas"), all of whom had transcended the cycles of birth and death (saṃsāra): tathāgatas (buddhas), paccekabuddhas (self-enlightened buddhas), tathāgatassa sāvakās ("hearers of the Buddha";), and rājā cakkavattis ("universal rulers").
	www.bookrags.com /research/stupa-worship-eorl-13 (300 words)

	Stupa, Chabahil
		The stupa appears to be a smaller replica of the one at Bodnath (1.5 km (1 mi.) to the east).
		The relatively large stupa seen today probably dates from the 17th c., obvious similarities suggesting its builders were influenced by Bodnath.
		The stupa is said to have been opened up at the time and a number of old manuscripts and statues found.
	www.planetware.com /chabahil/stupa-nep-cn-chas.htm (300 words)

	The Stupa Fund
		The stupa, with relics at its heart, is the source of stainless merit...
		Stupa have the potential to transcend the limitations of language to activate enlightened knowledge.
		Stupas are crucial to all Buddhist practitioners; they are offered to us by the Awakened Ones, so that we may open the door to understanding our inherent sacred nature.
	www.fpmt.org /projects/stupa/default.asp (345 words)

	About Stupas
		Stupas are the focus of prayer and pilgrimage.
		Once a site for a Stupa has been chosen Pujas (prayers) are said and the earth deities addressed to seek a blessing for the site and to remove any obstacles to the successful building of the Stupa.
		Each Stupa in the Tibetan tradition sits upon a square base called the Lion’s Seat whose four sides refer to the four qualities of mind basic to the attainment of enlightenment.
	www.stupa.org /stupas.htm (1431 words)

	Snow Lion Publications: Snow Lion Newsletter: Crestone Stupa
		The Tashi Gomang Stupa was built on the Baca Grande Estate in the Sangre de Christo Mountains of Southern Colorado between 1989 and 1996.
		A stupa is an architectural rendering of the stages and aspects of enlightenment.
		Through its design and contents, a stupa is regarded as having the power to transmit the very essence of enlightened mind, on the spot, to anyone who comes in contact with it.
	www.snowlionpub.com /pages/N57_12.php (609 words)

	Borobudur Stupa, Java, Indonesia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Borobudur stupa is a massive, symetrical monument, 200 square meters in size, sitting upon a low sculptured hill.
		The first six terraces are filled with richly decorated relief panels in which the sculptors have carved a textbook of Buddhist doctrines and a fascinating panorama of 9th century Javanese life.
		Upon the upper three terraces are 72 small stupas, each containing a statue of the Buddha (these statues are usually headless; relic hunters stole many of the heads, others are in museums).
	www.sacredsites.com /asia/indonesia/borobudur_stupa.html (702 words)

	Enlightenment Stupa Project
		The Enlightenment Stupa is the second type and it is built to signify of the enlightenment of Lord Buddha Shakyamuni.
		The first four layers, or steps, of the stupa are the paths in which one engages to gain the realisations.
		If one builds a stupa which has all the qualities which we described earlier, then in the particular place the stupa is built, all the beings that live in that area will receive numerous benefits.
	www.detongling.org /stupa/benefits_kr.htm (1419 words)

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