This World Heritage property of UNESCO contains the famous Sanchi stupa, one of the earliest stone buildings in India. This stupa contains Buddhist art and architecture and is a sacred site for ...

The relics were found buried in a stupa, or funerary monument, in Piprahwa, in present-day Uttar Pradesh, India, in 1898. According to an inscription carved into one of the reliquaries ...

The pictorially rich chapter depicts scenes from the Ramayana, as well as the Bharhut Stupa in Madhya Pradesh from the Shunga period, Naneghat, the Karla and Pitalkhora caves in Maharashtra ...

The dig suggested this was the location of a Mahastupa - the big stupa surrounded by monasteries or viharas buried in the adjoining fields. The stupa was 37 feet high with a base rammed with ...

and the stupa—occur frequently at all major Buddhist sites in North India, and thus concluded that the earliest Buddhist cult practice focused on these. There is no Ishwara or God in Buddhism ...

PM Modi went inside the stupa at the Deekshabhoomi and paid homage to Dr Ambedkar's 'asthi' (mortal remains) kept there. In his message penned in Hindi in the visitors' diary at the venue ...

This section will consist of 21 one-mark questions designed to test students' knowledge of concepts and terminology in History. Students will be required to choose the correct answer out of the ...

He went inside the stupa at the Deekshabhoomi and paid homage to Ambedkar’s ‘asthi’ (mortal remains) kept there. In his message penned in Hindi in the visitors’ diary at the venue ...

Patna (Bihar) [India], April 4 (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday inspected the under-construction Buddha Samyak Darshan-cum-Smriti Stupa located at Vaishaligarh in Vaishali ...

He topped it with a six-story stupa and filled it with 90,000 sculptures and reliefs of the Buddha—10,000 more images than the temple built by his father contains. I climbed five receding ...

India's collection includes Mughal miniatures, sculptures from Hindu temples, and Buddhist relics such as pieces from the Amaravati Stupa. Much of the collection reflects Britain’s colonial ...