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Boudhanath
Boudhanath
Boudhanath stupa with light offerings
Boudhanath stupa with light offerings
The colorful roof of Bodnath Temple
The colorful roof of Bodnath Temple
Prayer wheels around the stupa
Prayer wheels around the stupa
Tibetan monks Boudhanath, 1973
Tibetan monks Boudhanath, 1973

Boudhanath (Devnagari: बूदनाथ) (also called Bouddhanath, Bodhnath or Baudhanath or the Khāsa Caitya) is one of the holiest Buddhist sites in Bouddha, Nepal. Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices Nepal (नेपाल) is a Landlocked country in South Asia. It is known as Khāsti by Newars as Bauddha or Bodh-nāth by modern speakers of Nepali. The Newa ( Nepal Bhasa:नेवाः Newa or Newah, Old Nepal Bhasa नेवार Newar, नेवाल Newal) are the [1] Located about 11 km (7 miles) from the center and northeastern outskirts of Kathmandu, the stupa's massive mandala makes it one of the largest spherical stupas in Nepal. Kathmandu (काठमांडौ येँ is the Capital and the largest city of Nepal. Mandala ( Sanskrit maṇḍala मंड "essence" + ल "having" or "containing" A stupa (from Sanskrit and Pāli: m स्तूप stūpa, literally meaning "heap" is a mound-like structure containing Buddhist [2]

The Buddhist stupa of Boudhanath dominates the skyline. The ancient Stupa is one of the largest in the world. The influx of large populations of Tibetan refugees from China has seen the construction of over 50 Tibetan Gompas (Monasteries) around Boudhanath. Gompa and ling are ecclesiastical Fortifications of learning lineage and Sadhana (that may be understood as a conflation of a fortification a Monastery This article concerns the buildings occupied by monastics. For the life inside monasteries and its historical roots see Monasticism. As of 1979, Boudhanath is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site (such as a Forest, Mountain, Lake, Desert, Monument, Building, complex Along with Swayambhunath, it is one of the most popular tourist sites in the Kathmandu area. Swayambhunath ( Devnagari: स्वयम्भूनाथ स्तुप sometimes romanized Swoyambhunath) is an ancient religious complex atop a hill in the Tourism is Travel for Recreational or Leisure purposes The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel

The Stupa is on the ancient trade route from Tibet which enters the Kathmandu Valley by the village of Sankhu in the northeast corner, passes by Boudnath Stupa to the ancient and smaller stupa of Cā-bahī (often called 'Little Boudnath'). It then turns directly south, heading over the Bagmati river to Patan - thus bypassing the main city of Kathmandu (which was a later foundation). Bagmati ( Nepal Bhasa:बागमती खुसी बागमती नदी is a river of Nepal. Patan may refer to places in Afghanistan, India and Nepal: Afghanistan Patan Afghanistan [3] Tibetan merchants have rested and offered prayers here for many centuries. When refugees entered Nepal from Tibet in the 1950s, many decided to live around Bouddhanath. The Stupa is said to entomb the remains of a Kasyapa sage venerable both to Buddhists and Hindus. This article is about the Hindu sage Kashyapa or Kasyapa See also Kassapa Buddha for information on the ancient buddha and Mahakasyapa information on the disciple

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Legend of the Construction of the Stupa

"The village that surrounds the great Kāṣyapa tower is generally known by the name of Boḍḍha. . . . which in Tibetan is called Yambu Chorten Chenpo. Yambu is the general name by which Kāthmāndu is known in Tibet; and Chorten Chenpo means great tower. The real name of the tower in full is, however, Ja Rung Kashol Chorten Chenpo, which may be translated into: "Have finished giving the order to proceed with. " The tower has an interesting history of its own which explains this strange name. It is said in this history that Kāṣyapa was a Buḍḍha that lived a long time before Shākyamuni Buḍḍha. after Kāṣyapa Buḍḍha's demise, a certain old woman, with her four sons, interred this great sage's remains at the spot over which the great mound now stands, the latter having been built by the woman herself. Before starting on the work of construction, she petitioned the King of the time, and obtained permission to "proceed with" building a tower. By the time that, as a result of great sacrifices on the part of the woman and her four sons, the groundwork of the structure had been finished, those who saw it were astonished at the greatness of the scale on which it was undertaken. Especially was this the case with the high officials of the country, who all said that if such a poor old dame were allowed to complete building such a stupendous tower, they themselves would have to dedicated a temple as great as a mountain, and so they decided to ask the King to disallow the further progress of the work. When the King was approached on the matter his Majesty replied: "I have finished giving the order to the woman to proceed with the work. Kings must not eat their words, and I cannot undo my orders now. " So the tower was allowed to be finished, and hence its unique name, "Ja Rung Kashol Chorten Chenpo. " I rather think, however, that the tower must have been built after the days of Shākyamuni Buḍḍha, for the above description from Tibetan books is different from the records in Samskṛṭ, which are more reliable than the Tibetan. "[4]


History

The Gopālarājavaṃśāvalī says Bouhhanath was founded by the Nepalese Licchavi king Śivadeva (c. Licchavi (also Lichchhavi, Lichavi) was an ancient Republic which existed in what is now Bihar state of India, since the before the 590-604 CE); though other Nepalese chronicles date it to the reign of King Mānadeva (464-505 CE). [5][6] Tibetan sources claim a mound on the site was excavated in the late 15th or early 16th century and the bones of king Aṃshuvarmā 605-621 were discovered there. Aṃshuvarmā (also Anshuverma, Amshuvarm) was a monarch of the Nepali kingdom of Licchavi between 605 and 621. For the car see Peugeot 605. Events By Place Asia As a result of a quarrel between Numan III the Lakhmid Events By Place Byzantine Empire Byzantine Emperor Heraclius invades Persia. [7]

However, the Tibetan emperor, Trisong Detsän (r. Trisong Detsän or Trisong Detsen ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན (Tibetan Wylie Khri-srong-lde-btsan; ipa ʈʂʰisoŋ tetsɛ̃; PRC 755 to 797) is also traditionally associated with the construction of the Boudhanath Stupa. Events By Place Europe Abd-ar-Rahman I lands in Spain, where the next year he will establish a new Umayyad dynasty Events By Place Byzantine Empire July 17 — Irene orders her son Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI, captured and [8]

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Seeking shadow on Bodnath Temple


See Also


Footnotes

  1. ^ Snellgrove, David. Kora is both a type of Pilgrimage and a type of Meditation in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition Indo-Tibetan Buddhism: Indian Buddhists and Their Tibetan Successors, 2 vols. , p. 365. (1987) Shambhala Publications, Boston. ISBN 0-87773-311-2 (v. 1); ISBN 0-87773-379-1 (v. 2).
  2. ^ Fables of Boudhanath and Changunarayan. nepalnews. com. Retrieved on 2007-07-30. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1419 - First Defenestration of Prague. 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off
  3. ^ Snellgrove, David. Indo-Tibetan Buddhism: Indian Buddhists and Their Tibetan Successors, 2 vols. , p. 365. (1987) Shambhala Publications, Boston. ISBN 0-87773-311-2 (v. 1); ISBN 0-87773-379-1 (v. 2).
  4. ^ Ekai Kawaguchi. (February 26 1866 &ndash February 24 1945 was a Japanese Buddhist monk, famed for his four journeys to Nepal (in 1899 1903 1905 and 1913 and two to Tibet Three Years in Tibet, (1909), pp. 35-36. Reprint: Book Faith India, Delhi (1995). ISBN 81-7303-036-7.
  5. ^ Shaha, Rishikesh. Rishikesh Shaha (b 1925 d November 13, 2002) was a Nepalese writer politician and Human rights activist Ancient and Medieval Nepal. (1992), p. 123. Manohar Publications, New Delhi. ISBN 81-85425-69-8.
  6. ^ Ehrhard, Franz-Karl (1990). "The Stupa of Bodhnath: A Preliminary Analysis of the Written Sources. " Ancient Nepal - Journal of the Department of Archaeology, Number 120, October-November 1990, pp. 1-6.
  7. ^ Ehrhard, Franz-Karl (1990). "The Stupa of Bodhnath: A Preliminary Analysis of the Written Sources. " Ancient Nepal - Journal of the Department of Archaeology, Number 120, October-November 1990, pp. 7-9.
  8. ^ The Legend of the Great Stupa and The Life Story of the Lotus Born Guru, pp. 21-29. Keith Dowman (1973). Tibetan Nyingma Meditation Center. Dharma Books. Berkeley, California.

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