#Stūpa

Irène DB

UrbanFoxxxx

The ice stupas of Ladakh, giant towers of ice created in the Himalayan desert by local people to store water — engineering marvels that look like enchanted castleshttp://icestupa.org/ https://gregwhite.tv/stupa/ ph:

Dr. Matt, Buddhism stirred not shaken

mattdmilligan

So the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya has a good number of references to festivals occurring at stūpa-s. These seem to have been big thangs with vendors, waived taxes, and so forth. The Chinese

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LandOfImmortals

Originated in India, the Makara could be used to evaluate the influence which Indian culture exerts in Asia. 1. The Great Stupa at Sanchi (300 B.C.)2. The Goddess of the

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RamaInExile

LORD VISHNU IN BUDDHISM -XVISWAROOP form of "Swambhunatha"" You are buddha ,you are Bodhisattva,you are sravakas,you are Brahma,you are #VISHNU ,you are shiva ... " ~Svayaṁbhūstavaḥ,Buddhist Strotram,verse no.2 Icon

Coffeefueled

EponymousBreeze

Look closely at this brick created ~ 300-250 BC & you can see Greek writing. It was found at Ai-Khanoum, on the Northern border of Afghanistan. Ai-Khanoum was a primary

William Dalrymple

DalrympleWill

Some favourite masterpieces of early Buddhist art. Over the last week I have been researching the diffusion of early Buddhism. Here are some favourites I dug out from my travels.1.The

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ShreshthaDharma

Navayan and Buddhism of AmbedkarBR Ambedkar announced to accept Buddhism on 14th October, 1956 in a press conference. He formed a new sect Navayan inspite of following pre existing sects

Afghan Historians

AfghanHistorian

The site of Tepe Narenj, which literally means “orange hill”, stands on a relief that is currently denoted as Koh-e Zamburak, or “mountain of the small wasp”, situated on the

Jonathan Ware

ReassessHistory

Sturmpanzer IV in NormandyHow did this amazing, chonky, innovative AFV completely fail to approach to AVRE's success and lead to myths the Wehrmacht lacked a similar AFV entirely? /1#WW2 #SWW

Vandana 🇮🇳

1967Vandana

A flood of memories of our visit to Leh..in 2012..the second picture clicked by my daughter was published in the EVS book of NCERT..with due credits to @anindit28 ...Ladakh is

Stop Making Sense ☼

Mustafa_Mou_

Thread:After watching promo i had huge expectations tht atleast one episode will be shown in Ladakh, or any other Army camp. But it never happened. So what? I made my

Afghan Historians

AfghanHistorian

The Buddhist site of #TapaSardarBuddhist sanctuary rises on a hill which dominates a vast portion of the Dasht-i Manara plain Ghanzi #Afghanistan. The excavation of the site, carried out by

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warrior_hits

THREAD - Sirpur, Chhattisgarh1. On the banks of the Mahanadi River in Chhattisgarh lie the ruins of the magnificent and ancient city of Sirpur, which has monuments dating as far

Devayani

Geo_Sophist

Fossils are the dead remains/evidence of past organisms. Burrows, footprints & poo can also be preserved as #fossils.#India has a legacy of ancient marine creatures, dinosaur bones/eggs & rare hominin

The Broken Tusk ௐ 卐

TheBrokenTusk

Thread documenting the persecution of Hindus by Buddhists.Credits: @TrueIndology ji Additional inputs added as well.Thread will be continued.(/1)#TrueIndology #BringBackTrueIndology #Hindu #Persecution #Genocide *The Lies and slander agains

Camellia Tea Ceremony

camelliakyoto

THE WIZARD'S GRAVEFor #FolkloreThursday I have talked a lot about one of my favourite figures, Abe-no-Seimei (安倍晴明). Known by some as the 'Merlin of Japan', Seimei was Japan's greatest 'diviner'.His

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