He might sit dreamingly for hours at a time at a sidewalk restaurant or on the ground before a stupa in Vientiane, eat vegetable and cheese baguettes (the American cheese variety of course) and watch Europeans go by on their rented bicycles.
A guest house or even a night under the stars with the base of a stupa as his pillow would be preferable.
Often tourists would come to the stupa posing for pictures at its base.
If he could lean against a stupa and be in awe of the sun baking his face like a brick or appreciate the titillation of wind caressing his head like that of a Cambodian child-beggar patted by a foreigner, he would at last be alive.
He should be sitting next to that famous Phra Thuat Luang Stupaconstructed in the year 1565 for the wisdom that might emanate from its gold and simplicity instead of hoping for--did he dare to admit it himself?
The stupa was the same one pictured in his guide book, the same one he had thought of wistfully when he was on the train, and sexual inclinations had not been the entirety of his yearnings there-at least so he wanted to believe.
The drab stones of the stupa were probably erected in the nineteenth century and through the prodigious span of years, he thought, the unadorned city surrounded it in languid increments like the moss that had annexed its crevices.
It was so unbearable that he wanted to move away from the stupa and out of his inner self.
In the relic-cell of a stupa of the second century B.
The inscriptions already mentioned at Bhuvanecvara refer to a stupa which Acoka built at Tosali in Orissa.
The wall surrounding the great stupa presents an entrance through four noble portals of slender pilasters, united by cross-beams of singular workmanship.
Very careful and artistic representations of the stupa with its daghoba and interesting rail, pillars and sculptures will be found in Fergusson's Tree and Serpent Worship, and in his History of Indian Architecture (1876).
Even since Buhler wrote, the vase, the top of which is reproduced (see Plate), has been discovered on the borders of Nepal in a stupa where some of the relics of Buddha were kept.
The town is of great interest for the antiquary as one of the chief centres of the Buddhist kingdom of Vengi, and for its stupa (sepulchral monument).
The word stupa has now become corrupted into tope, by which word you will find it designated by modern writers on India.
Shall it not be that in the foundations of their hill or mound is some stupa (3), where Buddhas or Bodhisattvas have propounded sacred teaching to men?
Hsüan Chuang describes it as well as a stupa erected[60] to commemorate Sâkyamuni's prediction that Maitreya would be his successor.
The discourses of Śâkyamuni are accompanied in it by stupendous miracles culminating in a grand cosmic phantasmagoria in which is evoked the stupa containing the body of a departed Buddha, that is a shrine containing the eternal truth.
The Stupa of Bharhut, by Major-General Cunningham, Plate xxiv.
In the country of Rama there stood a brick stupa or tower, about a hundred feet high, in the time of Hiuen-Tsiang.
The stupa constantly emitted rays of glory, and by the side of it was a Naga tank.
Were I in Heaven The Stupa were an ill seat; But here, in the world without, What harm is done?
From the other side of Southern India, an inscription from the stupa at Jaggayyapeta in the Kistna district, Madras, referable to the 3rd century A.
Two of the records from the stupa at Bhattiprolu in the Kistna district, Madras, give us a king of those parts, reigning about 200 B.
It will probably be remembered that in January last a well-preserved stupa was opened at the village of Piprahwa, on the Nepal frontier, in the Basti district of the North-west Provinces.
Bharahat, Stupa of, hand as symbolic decoration on, 266 Biologia Centrali Americana, A.
A small circular stupa was discovered cut out of solid rock below the ground level.
Then all departed to their own homes, and each prince built a Stupa over his own portion of the relics.
The pavement of coins is represented in one of the sculptures belonging to the Stupa of Bharhut (Cunningham, pp.
The position of the Stupaand column has been discovered by Sir A.
Then they replace the bone in the Vihara, under a Stupa of the seven precious substances (p.
Not far to the south of the tree is a Stupaabout 100 feet high, built by King A[.
According to Fa-hien they also erected a Stupa over half the relics of the burnt body of Ananda (see p.
Probably some monumental Stupa existed here from the earliest times, and certainly from A[.
The two merchants, it is narrated, went home to their own country and acquired an enormous stock of religious merit by being the first to erect a Stupa for the reception of personal memorials of the great Buddha.
Stupas[220] in place of the eight originally constructed over the Buddha's ashes, built the first Stupaand a pillar near Pa[t.
Cunningham, in his account of the Bharhut Stupa--a Stupa which dates from the second century B.
Specimens of some of these trees are to be found growing in the area of the Buddha-Gaya temple, and several are represented in the sculptures of the Stupa of Bharhut (of the second century B.
Stupa there, over a portion of the Buddha's ashes, soon after his cremation.
The interior usually consisted of a nave, separated from the side aisles by pillars, and containing a chaitya or small stupa at the inner and circular end.
In 1909 the excavation of a ruined stupanear Peshawar disclosed a casket, with an inscription of Kanishka, and containing fragments of bones believed to be those of Buddha himself.
Hsüan Chuang says that in the Malakûta country, somewhere near Madura or Tanjore, there was a stupa erected by Asoka's orders and also a monastery founded by Mahinda.
Some authorities think that this stupa may be one of those erected over a portion of the Buddha's ashes after his funeral.
The earliest known relics are those discovered in the stupa of Piprâvâ on the borders of Nepal in 1898.
The one which is best preserved (or at any rate reproduced in greatest detail)[475] is the Stupa of Rawak.
There were some tens of thousands of monks mostly followers of the Mahayana and in the country, where the homes of the people were scattered "like stars" about the oases, each house had a small stupa before the door.
In Asoka's time the stupa had become overgrown and hidden by jungle but when the king was in search of relics, its position was revealed to him.
General Cunningham is of opinion that the denouement of this story is represented in one of the Bharhut Sculptures; see his Stupa of Bharhut, p.
