Stupas in Orissa (Study)
by Meenakshi Chauley | 2013 | 109,845 words
This study examines the Stupas and Votive Stupas in Odisha or Orissa (Eastern India).—In this thesis an attempt has been made to trace the historicity of Buddhism in Odisha on the basis of the architectural development of the Stupa architecture. Archaeological evidence obtained from excavated sites dates such structures as early as third-second cen...
Evolution of Stupa (3): Vimalosnisa
The Tantric section of the Tangyur Testament contains twin works on Vimalosnisa, one attributed to Sahajavilasa and the other to the anonymous.
According to Sahajavilasa �one should erect the Stupa over the corporeal relics of Lord Buddha on a hill or a plain or a valley and avoid a cemetery�. The text in particular points the various structural components of the Stupa and their proportions to be kept in mind during construction and at the end of the text it talks about the colours to be put to the structural components of the Stupa.