Word: stupas
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...throughout the Far East last week, Buddhists were bowed in prayer. They had flocked to their temples carrying offerings of flowers and incense, and many had journeyed to Nakorn Pathom (meaning First City), 40 miles west of Bangkok, to honor the local temple's huge, pumpkin-colored, glazed stupa (tower) that marks the site of Buddhism's establishment in Thailand 21 centuries ago. The occasion: Purima Pansa, the three-months-long Buddhist Lent that gives many of the devout a chance to live in a monastery and become temporary priests...
...Dowling reported: THE plane, loaded with Legionnaires, JL jeeps, artillery, barbed wire, ammunition, slips smoothly into the grass airstrip. We step out and the hills and mountains enclose us in their green embrace. To the west, rising from the jungle, is a hill surmounted by a white, bell-shaped stupa (shrine) whose glistening, golden spire points needlelike at a soft blue sky. To the east and south tower the forest-clad mountains Phu Xan Noi and Phu Xan Luan, looking like huge elephants...
...bones were ceremoniously carried back to Sanchi. Prime Minister Nehru opened the celebration, and officials of eight Asiatic countries were on hand, among them Burma's pious Premier U Nu. Before a reverent crowd of 100,000, the bones, encased in glass, were carried up to a new stupa, built on a hilltop near the old ruins. Then, while saffron-robed monks chanted Buddhist litanies, the remains of the honored disciples Sariputta and Moggallana were laid to rest...