http://www.artehistoria.com/civilizaciones/videos/458.htm El stupa, el hecho arquitectónico más relevante del Asia Oriental, es un tipo de monumento funerario de peregrinación que conmemora la muerte de Buda. Símbolo cósmico, como tal reproduce en su estructura la organización del universo. En definitiva, se trata de una gran bóveda que puede ir acompañada de otros edificios anexos. En planta, la proyección del stupa es un mandala o cosmograma celeste, rodeado por una balaustrada de piedra que recibe el nombre de vedika. Ésta se abre a los cuatro puntos cardinales a través de cuatro puertas de acceso o torana, decoradas con motivos escultóricos en relieve. Entre la vedika y el cuerpo del stupa existe un camino, llamado pradakshina patha, para deambular ritualmente alrededor del monumento, que debe hacerse siempre de izquierda a derecha. Pero la parte más importante del stupa es la gran cúpula o anda, que simboliza la bóveda terrestre y que se asienta firmemente sobre la Tierra, una plataforma cúbica llamada mehdi. Encima de la bóveda, una barandilla o harmika indica el lugar donde reside la esencia espiritual. En su centro se alza un mástil o yupa que simboliza el eje del universo, con distintos discos o chattravalai en función de la importancia del stupa. Comenzadas a construir en la India a partir del siglo I, llegó a haber miles de stupas, aunque muchas fueron destruidas. Entre las que mejor se conservan esta el stupa número 1 de Sanchi, aunque otros importantes se encuentran en Bharhut, Amaravati o cerca de Bhojpur.

The sleepy, all-seeing Buddha's eyes that stare out from the top of this hemispherical shrine have become the quintessential symbol of Nepal. Perched atop a forested hill on the western edge of the Kathmandu Valley, Swayambunath Stupa is Kathmandu's most important Buddhist shrine. Swayambunath is also known as the Monkey Temple, and as you start up the hill, you will likely begin to see the monkeys that lend the stupa this alternate name.

Visit my website @ www.livehistory.net In connection with the cycles of the moon, a new coat of saffron juice lotus petals are laid upon Bodhanath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Stupa in Hantum, The Netherlands. Karmapa's (karma) place (ling) for happiness providing (deleg) Dharma (chö) practice (phel). July 7 2005.

Breast Stupa Cookery, started since 2005 by Thai artist, Pinaree Sanpitak. Specially designed breast stupa shaped cooking molds made in aluminum and glazed stoneware are provided to invited chefs and food enthusiast. The objective of this project is to simply ask people to interpret the breast stupa shape into food and then eat it. Food becomes the art medium and connection. For the SOI Project - TOUT À FAIT THAI FESTIVAL in Paris (autumn 2006), Chef Rodolphe Onno and Chef Stéphane Moa of Restaurant Le Trois agreed to create a special Breast Stupa Cookery menu. Video by Marc Ribaudo of Pixaway Production. www.pixaway.com This was the first ever full course public event for the project. It proved popular and the entrée and dessert became part of the permanent menu.

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This is a fantastic Buddhist Stupa at a place known as Boudha, about seven kilometers east of Kathmandu. The largest spherical stupa is held in great veneration both by Lamas of Nepal and Tibetans and also by Nepali Hindus. You will see the people walking, worshipping, praying and offering around the stupa. You also get a view inside the big Buddha-temples there. On the background you hear the well-known mantra Omi mani padme hum. It's there everywhere.

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We visit the Buddhist Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal. Tibetan refugees circle the largest stupa in the world.

Tai Situ Rinpoche discusses the building of a Stupa in San Francisco and the great blessings it will bestow on the community.

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The Gorsam Stupa (or Chorten) in Arunachal Pradesh, India.

Dhamekh stupa, Sarnath, outside Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh (India). This stupa, reportedly built in the time of Emperor Ashoka, marks the place the Buddha preached his first sermon in the Sarnath Deer Park. There are still deer, but they're behind a fence. This stupa is the most impressive of what was a vast monastery/temple complex before Muslim (Turkish, I think) invaders destroyed it. It was re-discovered by the British and has undergone some restoration since the 1800s. This video was taken during a visit by the Dalai Lama to the area.

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Steve Rodman interview... excerpt from documentary (work in progress) Honoring the life, times and legacy of Paul "Tiny" Stacy Master Tibetan stone mason Sonam Lama is building a large Tibetan stupa in Tiny's memory. It will be located in a small park with meditation benches and reflecting pool in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Text courtesy of www.friendsoftiny.org

Built in Sedona Arizona this Stupa was initiated by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, the spiritual director of the Kunzang Palyul Choling Tibetan Buddhist centers. It is graced with a bronze image of Amitabha, the Buddha of Limitless Light, and is filled with hundreds of millions of prayers for peace, sacred relics and ritual objects. It is a beacon of light and virtue and is considered a vortex of Enlightened Presence, radiating waves of compassion to all beings. You don't have to be a Buddhist to visit it. People from every tradition are welcome to meditate and pray for themselves, loved ones and for the end of suffering in the world. It is traditional to make offerings at a stupa. According to the Buddha, any contribution to build or maintain a stupa is considered extremely auspicious, ensuring a lasting connection to one's future enlightenment. DIRECTIONS: From Highway 89A, take Andante north to Pueblo, turn left.

Buddhist Stupas symbolize the perfect harmony of the universe. They are not just a building of cement and bricks; but also an emanation of the joy because we may be able to benefit all beings by developing compassion and wisdom. Their live power pervade and pacify people and the land. They generate peace and love which are mentioned by every religion as the most important values. According to the tradition Stupas bring good fortune, fulfill the wishes of people with good intentions, protect their environment. With their appearance in the world, several locations have become honoured and a travel destination of spritually open people. The building of the Becske Stupa and the inauguration ceremony was conducted by Sherab Gyaltsen Rinpoche. For the building of a Stupa, an experienced Buddhist master is essential in every case. In Asia a number of Stupas have been built with the support of Rinpoche, in Europe the Becske Enlightenment Stupa is the first one.. A buddhista sztúpa a világegyetem tökéletes harmóniáját szimbolizálja. Nem csupán egy építmény cementből és téglából, hanem annak az örömnek kifejeződése, hogy képesek lehetünk az együttérzés és bölcsesség kifejlesztésével minden lény javára válni. Élő ereje áthatja és lenyugtatja az embert és a tájat. Békét és szeretetet teremt, amít minden vallás a legfőbb értéknek tekint. A hagyomány szerint a sztúpa szerencsét hoz, beteljesíti a jó szándékú emberek kívánságait, védelmezi a környezetét. Megjelenésével a világban, sok hely vált a térség büszkeségévé, a szellemileg nyitott emberek zarándokhelyévé. A sztúpa megfelelő "megtöltése" rendkívüli fontossággal bír, az egész folyamatot egy képzett tanítónak kell felügyelnie és irányítania, ezt a feladatot a neves Serab Gyalcen rinpocse végzi. (A rinpocse szó tiszteletteljes tibeti cím, jelentése "értékes, drága".) A rinpocsét a karma kagyü vonal előző vezetője, a 16. Karmapa avatta szerzetessé, több nepáli elvonulási központnak és kolostornak ő a vezetője. Évente több alkalommal világi gyakorlók ezreit vezeti be különböző gyakorlatokba a Kathmanduban lévő egyik nagy sztúpa, a Szvajambunasz szomszédságában lévő kolostorában.

The That Luang stupa was said to contain a breastbone of Buddha. The image of That Luang is used as a representation of the Laotian nation. It is 45 meters high and was reguilded in 1995 for the 20th anniversary of the country.

Buddhist Swayambhuvanath Stupa or known as the Monkey Temple is a Holy Pilgrimage, humbling climbing the steep carved stone stairs for a distance, reaching the top of the hill, paramounts a specatuclar view of Kathmandu. SWAYAMBHUNATH circumambulate the Swayambhunath Stupa 13 times on a holy day, it is equivalent to circumabulating Mount Kailash once and the merit accumulated is over 10,000 times. Lord Buddha instills devotion and increase merit among heretics, and with circumambulation of the Swayambhunath Stupa can generate purity with a great store of merit softening bad karma and obstacles for the present and the future, if the jiva is sincere and selfless. Legend: Kathmandu Valley was once a great lake. And long before the Buddha Shakyamuni appeared in Lumbini his predecessor of the Age of Truth (Satya Yuga), the first of seven appearing Buddhas, the Buddha Vipashyin , arrived in Nepal and meditate upon the hill which rose from the western shore of the lake. He offered the mountain to the people as a place to worship. The Buddha Vipashyin scattered a lotus seed into the lake. And as this lotus unfolded its petals, an illumination light radiated from the center of its thousand petals, which illuminated the entire valley mandala. This light was named the Swayambhunath Dharmadhatu, the Self-Sprung Infinite Field of Light and the flame of the enlightened mind of the primal Buddha, Vajradhara burned at its center. The light of Vajradhara also emanated in the colors of the rainbow and in each of the five colors appeared one of the Five Buddhas - Vairochana, Akshobhya, Ratnasambhava, Amitabha and Amoghasiddhi.

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