Story of Stupa - 2000 years of history
स्तुप को कथा - २००० वर्ष देखिको Story of Stupa Extracts from Book "Stupa-Chaitya: The Origin of Buddhist Art and Architecture" by Sumati Bajracharya. The book describes the origins of Stupa and Chaitya an extraordinary piece of monuments in the Kathmandu Valley and many places in South Asia. The describes the origin, styles and architecture of them. This is an extract from the book written in Khas Nepali language. Now the extract is in Khas Nepali language written in Nepali Script. It goes on like this: Even before the nirvana(death) of lord Budhha, Stupa has been erected in honor of the special relics, that needed to be worshiped or respected. After the nirvana (death) of Guatam Budhha, it was decided to build a stupa with the relics. But so as not to bring any contention among the kings and rulers at that time a Kumbha( urn - volume measuring tool) was used and the relics( Asthidhatu ) were divided to eight parts and distributed to eight areas. Then ...
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