Buddhism
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| Interior of an Ajanta Cave Monastery |
Ajanta consists of thirty caves, each dedicated to the life of the Buddha. ... All of the caves at Ajanta fall into the category of Vihara (monasteries with residence ... |
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| Karla - Plan of Chaitya Cave |
The Karla cave complex is built into a rocky hillside around 60 kilometres (37 mi) from Pune, with large windows cut into the rock to light the cave interiors.The caves are among a large numbers of similar caves excavated in the Sahyadri Hills in the early 1st millennium CE. |
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| Photographs of Buddha |
Photographs of Buddha |
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| Sculpture of Buddha |
The Seated Buddha from Gandhara is an early statue of the Buddha discovered at the site of Jamal Garhi
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| Stupa at Amaravati |
Carving in a cave monastery showing a Stupa Amaravati |
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| Stupa at Borobudur 8th Century AD |
Barabudur is a 7th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang Regency, not far from the town of Muntilan, in Central Java, Indonesia. |
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| Stupa at Borobudur Java 8th Century |
The Borobudur monument combines the symbolic forms of the stupa, the temple mountain and the mandala. |
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| The Buddha protected by Nagaraja Mucalinda |
Mucalinda is the name of a nāga, a snake-like being, who protected the Gautama Buddha from the elements after his enlightenment. It is said that four weeks after Gautama Buddha began meditating under the Bodhi Tree, the heavens darkened for seven days, and a prodigious rain descended. ... |
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| The Site where Buddha was born |
Lumbinī is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Rupandehi District of Lumbini Province in Nepal. |
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| The Venerable Piyadassi Mahathera from Sri Lanka during his visit to South Africa in May 1982 |
Piyadassi Maha Thera is best known as a great preacher of the Dhamma both in Sinhala and in English and it was in this field that his popularity was foremost. |