dagoba

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The wonderful building I have been describing, was, I discovered, a dagoba--of which there are numbers in Ceylon--built much with the same object as the pyramids of Egypt, and unsurpassed, except by them, by any edifices in the world in point of size, and I may add, in utter want of utility or beauty.

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  1. In Buddhist countries, a monumental structure containing relics of Buddha or of some Buddhist saint. It is constructed of brick or stone, in a dome-like form, sometimes of great height, and is erected on a natural or artificial mound. The dagoba is included under the generic term tope, and is sometimes confounded with the stupa. See stupa and tope. All kinds and forms are to be found, … the bell-shaped pyramid of dead brickwork in all its varieties, … the bluff knob-like dome of the Ceylon Dagobas. Yule, Mission to Ava.

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  • The dagoba erected at the top stands for the hilt of the sword. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Principally it possesses the white Tibetan-style dagoba also called Dabai Pagoda (Big White Pagoda). —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Light from the boat's lanterns glimmered in the water, and lit by the moon the softly gleaming white marble dagoba on Jewelled Island rose out of the darkness like the vision of a Buddhist grail. —  AmericanHeritage.com
  • The wonderful building I have been describing, was, I discovered, a dagoba--of which there are numbers in Ceylon--built much with the same object as the pyramids of Egypt, and unsurpassed, except by them, by any edifices in the world in point of size, and I may add, in utter want of utility or beauty. —  My First Voyage to Southern Seas
  • On a platform near the top stands a dagoba, with a sort of convent, intended for the habitation of the monks; and from thence the steps continue upwards to the summit, which is crowned by a dagoba 100 feet in height, which is said to enshrine one solitary hair from the forehead of Buddha This wonderful building has stood for upwards of eighteen centuries, having been constructed about the first year of the Christian era. —  My First Voyage to Southern Seas
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