How to Use stupa in a Sentence

stupa

noun

• Bi Ma places some pine sprigs in the fireplace of a stupa—a Buddhist shrine—and sets them alight.
  — Jason Motlagh, Marie Claire, 18 Jan. 2018
• The stupa is believed to mark the spot where Buddha preached his sermon at Deer Park.
  — Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• In Ladakh, that might mean building stupas, small piles of ice that last through dry seasons.
  — National Geographic, 9 Dec. 2019
• And there are new additions to the collection on view for the first time such as a bell from Indonesia in the shape of a stupa.
  — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian, 4 Oct. 2017
• Since Wangchuk invented the ice stupa in 2013, he's been teaching villagers in Ladakh how to build their own.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2021
• And a sculptural depiction of a stupa, carved in relief on a limestone panel, opens the show.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• Wangchuk and his students built their first ice stupa in November 2013.
  — National Geographic, 16 June 2020
• One of the oldest stone structures in India, the stupa covering was built to shelter the remains of a Buddha.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2021
• This is one of the more surprising finds in Bangkok, hidden away in the back of Wat Arun, far from the busy riverfront and scenic main stupa, a major tourist attraction.
  — Joe Cummings, CNN, 2 Nov. 2021
• Throngs of worshipers sat on the earth around the bleach-white stupa, a large dome that represents the earth’s elements and is used as a place of meditation.
  — Maria Abi-Habib, New York Times, 2 May 2018
• Protesters flowed in from townships on Yangon’s fringes and all over the city, converging on the area around Sule Pagoda, a sparkling golden stupa that is the heart of the city center.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2021
• The stupa is a recurrent visual theme in the Met exhibition.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• Wangchuk, 50, plans to build up to 20 ice stupas, each capable of supplying millions of gallons of water.
  — National Geographic, 15 Nov. 2016
• There were markets, public baths, a sewage system, and a Buddhist stupa, mostly constructed out of sun-baked brick.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 8 Sep. 2022
• At its peak, the temple boasted a smaller stupa at the front, a room or cell for monks, the podium of a column or pillar, a staircase, vestibule rooms, and a public courtyard that overlooked a road.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2022
• The earthquake destroyed the church in Shilaprabat, and it was rebuilt near a Hindu stupa that still bears the signs of the disaster, with its steeple standing askew at a 30 degree angle.
  — Rojita Adhikari, CNN, 8 June 2018
• In 2016, the stupa was a crumbling stub poking up amid a mound of detritus, its elaborate patterns of arches nearly worn away.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
• The hemisphere-like shape known as the stupa is a common sight in Buddhist architecture, and Sanchi Stupa is perhaps the most famous of the ancient examples.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2021
• This year, farmers and students together built a higher stupa.
  — National Geographic, 16 June 2020
• Monks, nuns and laypeople go through their daily practices on a day during the December full moon festival at the Ruwanwelisaya stupa in the town of Anuradhapura.
  — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian, 4 Oct. 2017
• Its soaring, gilded stupa gleams on a ridge overlooking a city of greenery and watery expanses which has retained links to the British colonial past that Kipling chronicled.
  — Denis D. Gray, The Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2017
• In Myanmar, people performed exercises near the Shwedagon pagoda, the landmark Buddhist stupa in Yangon.
  — Washington Post, 21 June 2017
• Dating back to the 8th and 9th centuries, it was built in a pyramidal shape with three main tiers around a hill including five concentric square terraces, three circular platforms and a monumental stupa on top.
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 28 Oct. 2022
• At Long Beach’s first Sankranta festival to celebrate the Cambodian new year, people knelt and prayed at a mound of sand called a stupa, decorated with bright yellow flowers to honor ancestors.
  — Jeong Park, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023
• All the restoration work on the stupa was being done according to surviving examples on the building’s symmetrical exterior.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024