The word "stupa" is Sanskrit for "to heap" and this refers to the mound like shape of the earliest stupas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Buddhist Channel] Reference

A stupa is a huge type of shrine and this one happens to be the biggest one in the whole of Asia!!.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

A stupa is a sacred symbol of Enlightenment and the path to Enlightenment that promotes harmony and peace within our world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Buddhist Channel] Reference

We walked from Pashupatinath to Bouddnath stupa which is very impressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

The area surrounding the stupa which is known as "Boudha" has over sixty Tibetan Buddhist monasteries.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference

He points to a pavilion-like stupa fifty yards away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel to Cambodia: 2005 Trip Journal - Part Seven] Reference

People were constructing a stupa -- a relic monument.    From Wordnik.com.  [General Introduction to the Initial Scope Teachings of the Graded Path (Lam-rim) ��� Day Two: Karma and Refuge] Reference

Than that from erecting a stupa with the nature of precious gems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Hundred Verse Treatise on the Actions of a Bodhisattva's Yoga ��� Chapters 5 - 8] Reference

One painting depicts a stupa and a tree surrounded by a railing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Does Newly Excavated Buddhist Temple Provide A Missing Link?] Reference

A small sign in front of the stupa carries an inscription in Khmer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel to Cambodia: 2005 Trip Journal - Part Seven] Reference

Often tourists would come to the stupa posing for pictures at its base.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference

Tseten Kalsang is one of two brothers who created the beer bottle stupa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contemporary Tibetan Art on Display in Beijing] Reference

The stupa is on the outskirts of Bendigo and sits on 120 acres of bushland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dalai Lama Blesses Bendigo Stupa] Reference

They are also active Buddhists and have built a stupa at their local pagoda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khmer Justice] Reference

The landscape below is dotted with forest, rice fields, and the occasional stupa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel to Cambodia: 2005 Trip Journal - Part Three] Reference

There is a small stupa, and another simple shelter with open walls and a tin roof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel to Cambodia: 2005 Trip Journal - Part Seven] Reference

He used his salary to buy a special bell that he offered for the top of the stupa.    From Wordnik.com.  [General Introduction to the Initial Scope Teachings of the Graded Path (Lam-rim) ��� Day Two: Karma and Refuge] Reference

It was so unbearable that he wanted to move away from the stupa and out of his inner self.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference

The cube referred to the platform in the center of the main temple on which a stupa stood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religious Conversion in Shambhala] Reference

The gravepost which is at issue in Komachi's triumphant debate is a sotoba, in Sanskrit stupa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sotoba Komachi] Reference

He thought of this mosquito as a spirit who came through the burning of incense placed at a stupa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference

There's not much to see, apart from a few Buddhist temples and a golden stupa that was built in 1997.    From Wordnik.com.  [Staying Out of Trouble] Reference

He says the beer bottle stupa is an example of how many cultural changes start with alcohol and food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contemporary Tibetan Art on Display in Beijing] Reference

At the same time he manifested another form inside the great stupa of Shri Dhanyakataka, which is near.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama] Reference

The stone cube referred to the platform on which a stupa stood, as was the custom in Bactrian temples.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in Afghanistan] Reference

We do not go out and jump off this stupa monument simply because some fool tells us to do that, do we?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short Commentary on Thirty-seven Bodhisattva Practices ��� Day Two] Reference

He might sit dreamingly for hours at a time at a sidewalk restaurant or on the ground before a stupa in.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference

A guest house or even a night under the stars with the base of a stupa as his pillow would be preferable.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference

He brings the keys to the stupa and opens its door, revealing a pile of human bones stacked like cordwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel to Cambodia: 2005 Trip Journal - Part Seven] Reference

The stupa he built in her honor, "The stupa of Chogmey" (mChog-med mchod-rten), stands to this day in Tibet.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Gampopa Reached His Spiritual Attainments] Reference

At night, 1,000 people huddled at the Shanti stupa, built high on a rock promontory above Leh, everyone frightened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Josh Schrei: The Ladakh Cloudburst: An Eyewitness Account] Reference

A row of young Tibetan artists stand in front of a towering sculpture of a traditional Tibetan religious object, a stupa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contemporary Tibetan Art on Display in Beijing] Reference

Visiting the main 262-by-131-foot Buddhist temple, which once boasted a stupa 32 to 50 feet high, it was hard not to gasp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rescuing Afghanistan's Buddhist History] Reference

He launched his two-day visit to Maui on Tuesday by blessing the newly constructed stupa shrine at the Maui Dharma Center in Paia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tibet: Dalai Lama: Compassion at the Center] Reference