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[[Image:Boudhanath Stupa.JPG|frame|The Jarung Khashor stupa at Boudhanath]] | [[Image:Boudhanath Stupa.JPG|frame|The Jarung Khashor stupa at Boudhanath]] | ||
'''Boudhanath''' | '''Boudhanath''' — one of the most sacred places in Nepal, the site of the famous Jarung Khashor [[stupa]] (Tib. བྱ་རུང་ཁ་ཤོར་, Wyl. ''bya rung kha shor''). | ||
It is considered that the | |||
Jarung Khashor is also one of the eight stupas built at the [[eight great charnel grounds]]<ref>bLa ma btsan po, '' 'dzam gling rgyas bshad''</ref>. | |||
==References== | |||
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==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
*''The Legend of the Great Stupa of Boudhanath'', translated by Keith Dowman | *''The Legend of the Great Stupa of Boudhanath'', translated by Keith Dowman (Berkeley: Dharma Publishing, 1973) | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
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[[Category:Places]] | [[Category:Places]] | ||
[[Category:Nepal]] | [[Category:Nepal]] | ||
[[Category:Pilgrimage]] | |||
Revision as of 16:35, 30 January 2012
Boudhanath — one of the most sacred places in Nepal, the site of the famous Jarung Khashor stupa (Tib. བྱ་རུང་ཁ་ཤོར་, Wyl. bya rung kha shor).
It is considered that the Jarung Khashor is also one of the eight stupas built at the eight great charnel grounds[1].
References
- ↑ bLa ma btsan po, 'dzam gling rgyas bshad
Further Reading
- The Legend of the Great Stupa of Boudhanath, translated by Keith Dowman (Berkeley: Dharma Publishing, 1973)
External Links
Prayer to the Stupa Jarung Khashor by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö
