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Monday Word: Stupa
stupa [stoo-puh]
noun
a usually dome-shaped structure (such as a mound) serving as a Buddhist shrine
examples
1. At one edge of the lawn, tall Tibetan prayer flag stands next to a white incense-burning stupa, much like the one on the family property in Taktser.
—Anne F. Thurston, Foreign Affairs, 23 Feb. 2016
2. The stupa, a Buddhist structure, is one of the oldest forms of sacred architecture on Earth.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
3. But in 2022, Chilean engineers built similar ice stupa prototypes in the Andes.
—Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2024
All around me, amid a handful of stupas and temples, were the flattened foundations of buildings in the religious complex.
—Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
origin
Sanskrit stūpa
Today (first full moon in May) is Vesak, the celebration of the birth of the Buddha.
noun
a usually dome-shaped structure (such as a mound) serving as a Buddhist shrine
examples
1. At one edge of the lawn, tall Tibetan prayer flag stands next to a white incense-burning stupa, much like the one on the family property in Taktser.
—Anne F. Thurston, Foreign Affairs, 23 Feb. 2016
2. The stupa, a Buddhist structure, is one of the oldest forms of sacred architecture on Earth.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
3. But in 2022, Chilean engineers built similar ice stupa prototypes in the Andes.
—Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2024
All around me, amid a handful of stupas and temples, were the flattened foundations of buildings in the religious complex.
—Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
origin
Sanskrit stūpa
Today (first full moon in May) is Vesak, the celebration of the birth of the Buddha.
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....So it's not an Italian American take on the ever iconic Italian slang word "stunad?" Has my life up to the beginning and end of this post been nothing but a LIE?
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