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Buddhist Temples and Pagodas

Temples, pagodas, stupas and monasteries in this atlas's Religious and Sacred Buildings subcategory built for Buddhist worship or monastic practice. Belongs here: any building this atlas records as a Buddhist place of worship or monastic community, across its many regional traditions (Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana and others alike). Does not belong here: a Hindu temple or a Southeast Asian temple whose own tradition is not Buddhist, each gathered under its own separate group in this subcategory, since this atlas keeps those two traditions distinct from Buddhism even where their architecture visibly overlaps.

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Era of Emergence
400 BCE 1
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India 1
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  • Wikipedia, Stupa, history section, era
    The earliest archaeological evidence for the presence of Buddhist stupas dates to the late 4th century BCE.
  • Wikipedia, Stupa, history section, region
    Some of the oldest known examples of stupas are found in Vaishali, Kushinagar, Piprahwa, Ramgram, Sanchi, Sarnath, Amaravati, and Bharhut.
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