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ARC231 Quiz 4

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Stupa
Buddhist shrine that is shaped like a dome or mound
Circumabulate a stupa
To walk clockwise around a stupa
Chaitya-Grihas/Chaitya hall
- 200 BCE
Basilica-shaped temple halls
Rock cut halls
Basilica
a large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse
Barrel-vault
a vault forming a half cylinder
Great Stupa
- 3rd c. BCE
- Sanchi, India
- one of the oldest Buddhist monuments in the country and the largest stupa at the site.
Sikhara
(North Indian Hindu temples) a mountain-like temple tower or superstructure representing Mt. Meru
Kailasa Temple
- 8th c. BCE
- Ellora, India
- temple is one of the largest Indian rock-cut ancient Hindu temples
Kandariya
- 1030 AD
- Khajuraho, India
- , Khajuraho (c. AD 1000) Hindu
- "the Great God of the Cave", is the largest and most ornate Hindu temple in the medieval temple group found at Khajuraho
Angkor Wat
Cambodia (began early 12thC, sponsored by Khmer ruler Suyarvarman II) Hindu temple to Vishnu and a funerary monument for Suryavarman
- The largest religious monument in the world
Feng Shui
Literally "wind-water." The Chinese art and science of placement and orientation of tombs, dwellings, buildings, and cities. Structures and objects are positioned in an effort to channel flows of sheng-chi ("life-breath") in favorable ways.
Pagoda
Form of stupa found in Japan and China comprised of multi-stories
Great Wall
China (b.~210 BC, watchtowers & later additions: Ming Dynasty AD 1368 -17th C)
Ise Naiku/Inner Shrine
(Ise, Japan) AD 3rd C (rebuilt every 20 years, last time: 2013) Shinto
Horyu-ji Complex
Nara, Japan) AD 607, burned AD 670 & rebuilt, Buddh
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