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Es haben sich in der Höhle mehr als 8000 Buddhastatuen angesammelt. Die ältesten stammen aus dem 18. Jahrhundert, und neue Votivgaben kommen bis heute hinzu. Wissenschaftler drängen auf die Aufnahme der Stätte in die UNESCO-Liste des Weltkulturerbes.
Die Kalkstein-Höhlen befinden sich in einem Höhenzug bei der Stadt Pindaya. Auf dem in Nord-Süd-Richtung verlaufenden Grat befinden sich drei Höhlen, aber nur die südliche Höhle kann betreten und erforscht werden. Es ist nicht bekannt, ob die beiden anderen über eine längere Strecke in den Hang eindringen. Die Höhlen sind über einen gedeckten Treppenaufgang zugänglich. Ausgehend von der geräumigen Eingangshalle führt ein Netz von Gängen tief in den Berg. Die Wände der kleinen Hallen und der Gänge sind bedeckt mit meistens vergoldeten Buddhastatuen aus verschiedenen Materialien und in unterschiedlichen Größen.
The Pindaya Caves are a Buddhist pilgrimage site and a tourist attraction located on a limestone ridge in the Myelat region. The area is part of the ancestral homeland of the Danu people. There are three caves on the ridge which runs north-south, but only the southern cave can be entered and explored. It is not known whether the other two penetrate for any extended distance into the hillside. Scholars have been pushing for the site's inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Die Kuthodaw-Pagode (Pagode der Königlichen Verdienste) ist eine 1868 fertiggestellte Anlage in der myanmarischen Stadt Mandalay. Sie besteht aus 729 Stupas in Form pavillonartiger Tempel, in denen je eine weiße Marmorplatte mit birmanischer Schrift steht.
The Kuthodaw Pagoda (Pagoda of Royal Merit) is a complex completed in 1868 in the Myanmar city of Mandalay. It consists of 729 stupas in the form of pavilion-like temples, each containing a white marble slab with Burmese script.
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.)
Wat Prayurawongsawas Worawihan (Wat Prayun) is a 20-minute walk from the famous Wat Arun (Temple of Dawn) and barely gets a farang (common Thai word for foreigner Caucasians).
Inside the main stupa, which contains Buddha's relics and looking straight up.
Boudhanath is the largest stupa in Nepal and one of the largest stupas in the world. It is a focal point both for Buddhist pilgrimage and for daily devotion.
Nepal only endemic and one of my most wanted species.
If I'm not mistaken, this is the second image of this species on Flickr.
'Peace Stupa" hill. Pokhara. Nepal.
MYANMAR,burma - Mandalay , rund um die Kuthodaw-Pagode
Die Kuthodaw-Pagode (Pagode der Königlichen Verdienste) ist eine 1868 fertiggestellte Anlage in der myanmarischen Stadt Mandalay. Sie besteht aus 729 Stupas in Form pavillonartiger Tempel, in denen je eine weiße Marmorplatte mit birmanischer Schrift steht.
The Kuthodaw Pagoda (Pagoda of Royal Merit) is a complex completed in 1868 in the Myanmar city of Mandalay. It consists of 729 stupas in the form of pavilion-like temples, each containing a white marble slab with Burmese script.
Der Legende nach ist die Shwedagon-Pagode mehr als 2500 Jahre alt. Aufzeichnungen buddhistischer Mönche bezeugen, dass die Pagode bereits vor dem Tod des historischen Buddha Siddhartha Gautama im Jahre 486 v. Chr. erbaut wurde. Die Legende der Shwedagon-Pagode beginnt mit den zwei Brüdern Taphussa and Bhallika, Händlern aus dem Staat Ramanya und die ersten beiden Schüler Buddha Gautamas, die von ihm acht seiner Kopfhaare erhielten. Die beiden Brüder zogen daraufhin nach Burma, wo sie mit Hilfe des Königs Okkalapa auf dem Singuttara-Berg eine zehn Meter hohe Pagode bauten, in der die acht Haare in einer goldenen Schatulle eingemauert werden sollten.
Archäologen glauben, dass der Stupa irgendwann zwischen dem 6. und 10. Jahrhundert durch das Volk der Mon erbaut wurde, aber diese Datierung ist umstritten. Möglicherweise verfiel der Stupa im Lauf der nächsten Jahrhunderte. Die ersten halbwegs glaubwürdigen Berichte über den Stupa stammen vom Ende des 14. Jahrhunderts, als der Mon-König Binnya U von Pegu im Jahr 1372 die Pagode (wieder) errichtete und auf eine Höhe von 18 Metern vergrößerte. Ein halbes Jahrhundert später erweiterte König Binyagyan die Pagode auf eine Höhe von 90 Metern. Seine Nachfolgerin, Königin Shinsawbu (reg. 1453–1472), gab der Pagode ihr heutiges Erscheinungsbild. Ihre jetzige Höhe von 98 Metern erreichte die Shwedagon unter König Hsinbyushin aus Ava im Jahre 1774. Die Königin selbst stiftete ihr Körpergewicht in Gold für die Verkleidung der Pagode. Im Laufe der Jahrhunderte wurde sie mit Gold und Edelsteinen reich verziert und überall mit Glocken behängt.
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.
Rurikouji stupa at night.
The light-up was done using colour toning floodlights, which, I felt, was too flashy. This image is edited by reducing the level of saturation.
The stupa is under repair works as of this writing in September 2024.
The Oouchi had a tradition to provide patronage to cultural figures. Another important cultural figure would be Francisco de Xavier (1506-1552).
He first arrived at Yamaguchi in 1550 and met Oouchi Yoshitaka (大内義隆 1507 - 1551) but failed to gain patronage because he denounced male homosexuality during the meeting, which was common among the Buddhist monks and upper class Samurai at that time.
He left Yamaguchi for Kyoto where he was rejected and returned to Yamaguchi in 1551. He finally persuaded the Oouchi to grant a permission to propagate Christianity by shelving the sexuality matters, and was given a disused Buddhist temple. It was the first permanent Christian church in Japan.
It was the heyday of the Oouchi, and Oouchi Yoshitaka even tried to make Yamaguchi the new capital of Japan by inviting the Emperor from Kyoto, which was unsuccessful and triggered the demise of the Oouchi. A few months after meeting the Jesuit mission, Oouchi was killed in a civil war, and the Oouchi was destroyed eventually.
Oouchi's territory was occupied by the Mouri based in Hiroshima. After the battle of Sekigahara between the Tokugawa and the Toyotomi in 1603, Mouri's territory was reduced to Yamaguchi only as Mouri sided with the defeated Toyotomi.
The Mouri barely survived until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
Stùpa de Bodhnath.
Ne pas oublier de tourner dans le sens des aiguilles d'une montre autour de ce centre spirituel refuge de nombreux Tibétains ayant fui la colonisation chinoise.
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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Royal Palace of Cambodia (Phnom Penh)
On the right, you can see the Kantha Bopha Stupa, which is dedicated to Princess Kantha Bupha. She was the daughter of the late King Sihanouk, who died in 1952 at the age of four.
On the left, you can see the Stupa of King Suramarit, the father of King Sihanouk and grandfather of the current King Sihamoni. King Suramit died in 1960.
Gleaming white ancient stupa on the mountain side, Stok Gompa, Ladakh, dramatic in black and white. There are dozens of old stupas, both large and small, dotting the landscape around Stok. The history of stupas, used as places for meditation, goes back to the 4th century BCE era when they were used to house relics of the Buddha and his associates, and also Buddhist monks and nuns.
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