{"id":8542,"date":"2012-07-15T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=8542"},"modified":"2012-07-15T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T11:12:00","slug":"the-placement-of-buddhist-stupas-as-landscape-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/the-placement-of-buddhist-stupas-as-landscape-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"The placement of Buddhist stupas as landscape architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/stupa_field_ladakh_landscape.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8543\" title=\"stupa_field_ladakh_landscape\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/stupa_field_ladakh_landscape.jpg\" alt=\"How are stupas sited in the landscape?\" width=\"775\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/stupa_field_ladakh_landscape.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/stupa_field_ladakh_landscape-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/stupa_field_ladakh_landscape-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/stupa_field_ladakh_landscape-624x469.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a> Having wondered for some time whether the design and siting of the pyramids at Giza was conceived as a &#8216;stylization&#8217; of sand dunes on the boundary between the Red Land (desert) and the Black Land (farmed land), I timidly kept the idea to myself until Charles Jencks put forward the same idea. Now I wonder if the largest stupa field in Ladakh (above, at Shey) was conceived as a stylization of a mountain range. The stupas have this appearance but there are many considerations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hindu gods are associated with mountains<\/li>\n<li>Buddhism does not have creator gods but draws much from Hindus ideas<\/li>\n<li>Stupas are symbols of the Buddha&#8217;s presence<\/li>\n<li>Nirvana is represented in Buddhist art as being in a mountainous region<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden\/mount_kailash\">Mt Kailash<\/a> is sacred to Hindus and Buddhists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An interesting aspect of Ladakh is that it has no tradition of making &#8216;pleasure gardens&#8217; but the whole country appears to have been conceived as a garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having wondered for some time whether the design and siting of the pyramids at Giza was conceived as a &#8216;stylization&#8217; of sand dunes on the boundary between the Red Land (desert) and the Black Land (farmed land), I timidly kept the idea to myself until Charles Jencks put forward the same idea. Now I wonder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}