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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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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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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.
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.
The Shwesandaw Pagoda, is a Buddhist pagoda located in Bagan, Burma. The pagoda contains a series of five terraces, topped with a cylindrical stupa, which has a bejewelled umbrella (hti). The pagoda was built by King Anawrahta in 1057, and once contained terra cotta tiles depicting scenes from the Jataka. Enshrined within the pagoda are sacred hairs of Gautama Buddha, which were obtained from Thaton.
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.
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
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.
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 is originally a burial mound or a marker of cremation site of Buddha or a high-ranked priest, which is built as part of a Buddhist temple complex. It is probable that installing a stupa on a hilltop is 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.
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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Kathmandu, Nepal
Boudhanath Stupa (or Bodnath Stupa) is the largest stupa in Nepal and the holiest Tibetan Buddhist temple outside Tibet. It is the center of Tibetan culture in Kathmandu and rich in Buddhist symbolism. The stupa is located in the town of Boudha, on the eastern outskirts of Kathmandu. Bodnath was probably built in the 14th century after the Mughal invasions; various interesting legends are told regarding the reasons for its construction. After the arrival of thousands of Tibetans following the 1959 Chinese invasion, the temple has become one of the most important centers of Tibetan Buddhism. Today it remains an important place of pilgrimage and meditation for Tibetan Buddhists and local Nepalis, as well as a popular tourist site.
Boudhanath stupa is one of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world, the holiest Tibetan Buddhist temple outside Tibet.
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.