{"id":4816,"date":"2023-01-16T12:52:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T07:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:35:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T21:05:36","slug":"what-is-a-votive-stupa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-a-votive-stupa\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Votive Stupa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Votive stupa<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These are forms of the stupas, with their distinctive <strong>domelike drum<\/strong>, originating in eight cylindrical structures in which the <strong>Buddha&#8217;s relics were placed<\/strong> after his death.<\/li>\n<li>The stupa shape has become associated with the Buddhist goal of release from the cycles of suffering and rebirth.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In addition to the drum, this stupa has a <strong>tiered base and is crowned<\/strong> with a series of stylized umbrellas that symbolize <strong>royalty and divine status.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The larger ones at Bodhgaya were probably given by visiting kings, while smaller stupas such as this one were offered by monks and lay pilgrims.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Beginning in the <strong>7th century CE in India<\/strong>, small miniature terracotta stupas became popular as votive offerings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is a stupa?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a Buddhist commemorative monument usually housing sacred relics associated with the Buddha or other saintly persons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Who established the Nalanda University?<\/h3>\n<p>Nalanda University was established by the Kumaragupta in the 5<sup>th<\/sup> century AD.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><u>1200-year-old miniature stupas found in the Nalanda district<\/u>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Votive Stupa are stupas, with their distinctive domelike drum, originating in 8 cylindrical structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}