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Some ritual Stupa shot with a fisheye lens, in Leh, Ladakh. This is the Thiksey Gompa at 3600mt elevation in the Indus Valley.
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MYANMAR,burma - auf dem Weg nach Pindaya, tolle Stupa-Landschaft,
Mitten in der Pampa auf einem Bergrücken eine Ansammlung von Stupas. Keine historischen Heiligtümer , alles noch relativ neu und einfach aber liebevoll an und auf den Felsen drapiert, mit herrlicher Aussicht.
)MYANMAR ,Burma - Old-Bagan, Sonnenuntergang mit Blick von der imposanten Shwesandaw-Pagode(Tempel
)Die Stufenpyramide hat fünf quadratische Terrassen, dann zwei achteckige Zwischenstufen und schließlich den klassischen zylindrischen Stupa-Aufbau mit Glocke, Turban, doppeltem Lotus, Bananenknospe und Hti. An den vier Seiten führen bis zur fünften Terrasse Treppen hinauf. Früher dienten sie den Gläubigen, damit sie die inzwischen verschwundenen Terrakotta-Platten mit Szenen aus den Jatakas auf den einzelnen Terrassen erreichen konnten; heutzutage steigen Touristen hinauf, um den Sonnenuntergang zu bewundern.
The step pyramid has five square terraces, then two octagonal intermediate steps and finally the classic cylindrical stupa structure with bell, turban, double lotus, banana bud and hti. Stairs lead up to the fifth terrace on the four sides. They used to serve the faithful so that they could reach the terracotta slabs with scenes from the Jatakas on the individual terraces, which have since disappeared; nowadays tourists go up to admire the sunset.
A côté des Grandes Stupas ( ou Chortens) célèbres de Swayambunath, de Bodnath .... on rencontre dans la campagne de petites stupas , comme en France on peut rencontrer de petits calvaires.... . Toutes n'ont pas le cachet des grandes stupas citées précédemment , mais elles témoignent des comportements religieux des populations.....
The Shanti Stupa in Leh, during the blue hour assumes fantastic tones and colors, a mystical light for a really mystical place.
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Stupas are constructed in Myanmar by donations from individuals for the merit-making, an important Buddhist practice to ensure a good quality of next life. Short-term returns in the present life such as good luck, economic prosperity, healthy life may be also expected implicitly.
Each stupa is decorated with Hti, the metal ornament that tops each structure. Hti means umbrella which is regarded as a symbol of Buddha and Buddhism.
Inle Lake, Taunggyi, and a few hill stations in the western periphery of the Shan State are the only places in the state that have been fully controlled by the central government throughout the British rule and independent Myanmar. The rest of the state has been tended to be autonomous and fragmented into small territories of ethnic minorities. The area is better known as the Golden Triangle.
Kyaingtong (Burmese) or Kengtung (Thai) is the largest town in the Golden Triangle. It is a fortified old town that had been the seat of a Shan ruler called Sawbwa (Burmese) or Saopa (Thai).
Accordingly, the stupa of Wat Jom Kam is built in a northern Thai style. It does not have a Hti, a metal ornament that tops the stupas in Myanmar.
This is the real Shwedagon stupa or pagoda in Yangon. Dagon is the old name of Yangon in the Mon language. This photo shows only the upper part of the structure.
Ayeyarwadi delta, Yangon, Bago (Pegu, Hanthawaddy) used to be part of the Mon kingdoms in the past, but their territory is now reduced to the Mon State to the southeast of Yangon.
Photos of a travel to the southern Myanmar including Mon State and Tanintharyi Region are here (flic.kr/s/aHBqjAsRHH.)
Today's pictures are all from my visit to Wat Phitchaya Yatikaram, an Ayutthaya period temple on the south side of the Chaor Praya River in Bangkok.
A stūpa 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.
Buddhist shrine sacred to the memory of the famous Szekler-Hungarian philologist and orientalist, Alexander Csoma de Kőrös (1784-1842), who considered as the founder of Tibetology. He created the first Tibetan-English grammar and dictionary, while living among monks in buddhist monasteries in Tibet. He is often called by the title "Enlightened of the West". This stupa was built by the Karma Kagyupa Buddhist community of Tibetan origin.
My favorite Tibet restaurant has a Stupa on the patio, made from dozens of old irons. Last week I sat outside and immediately noticed the huge empty space...the Stupa was gone. It appears that, after years, the artist decided to try and sell it. Good luck to him. At least I have the photograph.
奈良県庁屋上展望台は穴場です。場所も良く程よい高さです。
興福寺五重塔の背後には曇天の空が広がっていました。
The Nara Prefectural Government Rooftop Observatory is a little-known spot for shooting. The location is good and the height is appropriate.
There was a cloudy sky beyond the stupa at Kofukuji Temple
Landscaping of Sankei’en with a pond and the three story stupa on the hill. This was the area called Gai’en or the outer garden open to the public when Sankei’en was completed in 1906.
Nai’en or the inner garden was the private space for the Hara family.
Hara Tomitarou was born as Aoki Tomitarou in Gifu prefecture. He learned economics in Tokyo Senmon Gakkou (東京専門学校 Tokyo Professional School) that was renamed to Waseda University later. He taught at Atomi Girls’ School (跡見学園), met and married with Hara Yasu who was his student in 1892 and went into the Hara family to inherit the family business of trading.
After the marriage, he engaged in exporting silk and earned a huge fortune, a large part of which was spent for his hobby of tea ceremony, collection of arts, patronising artists and developing Sankei’en.
He built his residence here in 1902 and started moving old architectures. He opened part of his property to the public as Sankei'en in 1906 and onward, while continued collecting old architectures in the 1910s and 1920s.
A stupa was originally a burial mound or a marker of cremation site of Buddha or a high-ranked priest, which was built as part of a Buddhist temple complex. It is probable that installing a stupa on a hilltop was Hara Sankei’s original idea. His idea was copied later like Chinzanso Garden in Tokyo.
Shanti Stupas or Peace Pagodas installed in many countories by the Myouhouji temple may also be his successors.
Letzehof Frastanz
Vorarlberg
Letzehof (officially Tashi Rabten) is a traditional Tibetan Buddhist monastery and study center. It is located on Letze Hill, directly on the border with Feldkirch. The center was founded in 1981 by Gesche Rabten Rinpoche on a historic 19th-century estate, which Helmut Gaßner from Vorarlberg made available as a home for monks expelled from Tibet.
From an old album
Hasselblad 503 CW
small print on Oriental Warmtone baryta paper
A beautifully crafted wooden Tibetan stupa or Chorten, seen in Sikkim, India.
The chorten is one of the earliest forms of Buddhist architecture. The stupa is all hand carved and painted in the traditionally prescribed Tibetan style. The open niche may be left open or have a deity image placed or painted within.
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More than 2000 temples, pagodas or stupas down below. Our fabulous morning balloon flight with Balloons Over Bagan company. Myanmar
This stupa was erected in 1987 in memory of Geshe Rabten Rinpoche. He had been the philosophical assistant to the Dalai Lama since 1964. At the request of the Dalai Lama, he went to Europe and founded various centers for higher Tibetan studies, including Tashi Rabten on the Letzehof in 1981. The Letzehof is located on the Letze hill between the Walgau and the Rhine Valley.
Maria Grün near Frastanz, Vorarlberg
2005
Mamiya 7II, 4/80 mm, Ilford Delta 400
Print onto Foma Retrobrom with Moersch SE6 blue
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