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- noun Plural form of
vihara .
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Examples
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We want to erect temples and "viharas" which are so indispensable to the study of nature and her secrets.
Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose
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A major archaeological excavation is also on in the north to unearth Buddhist 'viharas'.
India eNews 2009
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Vaisyas7 built viharas for the priests, and endowed them with fields, houses, gardens, and orchards, along with the resident populations and their cattle, the grants being engraved on plates of metal,8 so that afterwards they were handed down from king to king, without any daring to annul them, and they remain even to the present time.
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There were hundreds of pieces, friezes of figures in relief, fragments of statues and slabs crowded with figures that had encrusted the brick walls of the Buddhist stupas and viharas of the North Country and now, dug up and labelled, made the pride of the Museum.
Kim 2003
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Behar was given to it in consequence of its many viharas.
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Incited by female Buddhas singing songs of the four immeasurable attitudes (mtshams-med bzhi, four Brahma-viharas) of love, compassion, joy, and equanimity, we arise from focus on voidness and appear in subtle forms to help others.
Making Sense of Tantra ��� 9 Non-Gelug Variations Concerning General Anuttarayoga 2002
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At Ellora, the rock has a gentle slope, so that, in order to have the desired height for excavating the immense halls of the _viharas_ or the naves of the
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various
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Behar was given to it in consequence of its many viharas.
A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline ca. 337-ca. 422 Faxian
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B.C. The magnificent ruins of dagobas and viharas in the ancient kings and people of Ceylon.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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There were hundreds of pieces, friezes of figures in relief, fragments of statues and slabs crowded with figures that had encrusted the brick walls of the Buddhist stupas and viharas of the North Country and now, dug up and labelled, made the pride of the Museum.
Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900
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