Comments on: The placement of Buddhist stupas as landscape architecture https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/the-placement-of-buddhist-stupas-as-landscape-architecture/ Gardenvisit.com Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:14:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/the-placement-of-buddhist-stupas-as-landscape-architecture/#comment-4869 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:14:52 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=8542#comment-4869 Yes, the presence of Stupa’s in Hindu sites is interesting. The link through to Chinese and Japanese architecture even more fascinating still! [ http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab96 ] A good example of architecture evolving from landscape!

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/the-placement-of-buddhist-stupas-as-landscape-architecture/#comment-4868 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 04:04:06 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=8542#comment-4868 In reply to Christine.

Your link is to a good summary of stupa sybmolism but I think it contains a strong element of post-rationalisation: the design of stupas (like Sanchi) is older than any records of their symbolism.
Stupas are of course architectural structures but my belief is that their careful location in landscapes makes them classic examples of ‘landscape architecture’ in its original sense of architecture which was very closely related to landscape settings.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/the-placement-of-buddhist-stupas-as-landscape-architecture/#comment-4867 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:01:28 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=8542#comment-4867 The stupa is considered architecture rather than landscape and symbolises the sitting Buddha. [ http://buddhistsymbols.info/stupa/ ] Can you identify what type of stupas are in your photograph?

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