Here, too, they were busy making clay images to bury under the chorten that they were building above the monastery. |
Larger villages may have a community temple, a community mill, and religious monuments called stupas and chorten. |
Inside was a large white chorten, and painted on the cave walls and roof were some of the best preserved ancient Buddhist art I had ever seen. |
The ostensible object of his journey was to visit the sacred chorten at Khatmandu and the shrines of Benares. |
Near the southern big chorten a hundred pilgrims are installing white tents and will spend the night here. |
In the center of it, we discover a large chorten 25m high in poor condition. |