Sanchi

Having spent five years as a hostage, McCarthy is well placed to reflect on the importance of mindfulness as he visits the Great Stupa at Sanchi and the cave temples of Alora, India.

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Subsequently he was sent to India for five years of missionary work for the Mahabodhi Society, serving the Harijana untouchable people in Sanchi, Delhi, and Bombay.

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Subsequently he was sent to India for five years of missionary work for the Mahabodhi Society, serving the Harijana untouchable people in Sanchi, Delhi, and Bombay.

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It would therefore seem that the stupa at Deorkothar was built before the famous early free-standing stupa at Sanchi.

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Such sherds are absent from Sanchi, further indicating that Deorkothar predates that site.

Does Newly Excavated Buddhist Temple Provide A Missing Link? 2001

The canon was then or in the 2nd century expanded in Kausambhi, Sanchi, and Malwa and fixed in Pali to form the Tripitaka (“Three Baskets”): stura (doctrine), vinaya (monastic code), and abhidharma (philosophical discussion).

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Situated on the ancient Dakshinapath (southern trade route), Deorkothar lies between Bharhut and Sanchi, two major Buddhist centers established in the third century B.C.

Does Newly Excavated Buddhist Temple Provide A Missing Link? 2001

The SUNGA DYNASTY was founded in the Ganges Valley and in Malwa by Pushyamitra, who overthrew the Maurya and repulsed the Yavanas under Menander, and by a Brahman reaction that may have stimulated Buddhist emigration to Bharhut, Sanchi, and Mathura.

C. Early Civilizations and Classical Empires of South and East Asia 2001

Sculptures about the great Buddhist stupa of Amaravati on the lower Kistna reveal union of Hindu traditional style with its crowding and naturalism, already more refined than at Bharhut and Sanchi, with Greco-Buddhist motifs which were borrowed from Gandhara and in turn transmitted to Malaya, Sumatra-Java, Cambodia, and Champa.

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