Boudanath The Great Stupa <br> By: Dowman Keith

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Boudanath The Great Stupa
By: Dowman Keith

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The Great Stupa of Boudhanath is a protective, purificaton and wish-granting stupa. But further, because of its antiquity - its origins beyond the recall of folk memory its foundation and fabric impregnated with the vibration of innumerable generations of devoted worship and powerful meditation, its awesome size and unique form, and its basis in myth and legend, it inspires vast devotion and has become one of the most significant objects of worship in the Buddhist universe. In myth the Great Stupa is said to contain the relics of the Buddha of the previous 'on, Mahakasyapa Buddha, and thus it is also a reliquary stupa.

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Keith Dowman has spent the last twenty years in India and Nepal. He has been educated in the theory and practice of Tibetan Buddhism by eminent Lamas of Several Tibetan schools, and has translated several major Tibetan texts into English. He now lives with his family in Kathmandu, where he continues to explore the Tibetan tradition and to interpret it for people in the West.

Contents: The Great Stupa of BOUDHANATH

MYTH AND LEGEND 5

BOUDHA: ONE OF THE EIGHT GREAT CREMATION GROUNDS 8

HISTORY OF BOUDHANATH 9

SYMBOLISM OF THE STUPA 18

DESCRIPTION OF THE SITE 20

WORSHIP 27

FESTIVALS 29

MONASTERIES AROUND THE STUPA 31

ABOUT THE TIBETAN TEST OF 'THE LEGEND' 32

TRANSLATION OF 'THE LEGEND OF THE GREAT STUPA' 34

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