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Pagoda
Pagoda Pa*go"da, n. [Pg. pagoda, pagode, fr.Hind. & Per.
but-kadah a house of idols, or abode of God; Per. but an idol
+ kadah a house, a temple.]
1. A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and
tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of
India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not
always, devoted to idol worship.
2. An idol. [R.] --Brande & C.
3. [Prob. so named from the image of a pagoda or a deity (cf.
Skr. bhagavat holy, divine) stamped on it.] A gold or
silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current
in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and
a half rupees.
Meaning of Pagodas from wikipedia
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scaling pagodas. The
oldest and
tallest pagodas were
built of wood, but most that
survived were
built of
brick or stone. Some
pagodas are
solid with...
- The
Three Pagodas of the
Chongsheng Temple (Chinese: 崇圣寺三塔; pinyin: Chóngshèng Sì Sāntǎ) are an
ensemble of
three independent pagodas arranged on the...
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Burmese pagodas are
stupas that
typically house Buddhist relics,
including relics ****ociated with Buddha.
Pagodas feature prominently in Myanmar's landscape...
- he
began constructing Peace Pagodas as
shrines to
world peace. The
first was
inaugurated at
Kumamoto in 1954.
Peace Pagodas were
built as a
symbol of peace...
- The Twin
Pagodas are the main
remnant of the Ding****
Buddhist temple in Suzhou, China. Twin
pagodas are a rare
feature of
Chinese temples,
which usually...
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Pagodas in ****an are
called tō (塔, lit.
pagoda),
sometimes buttō (仏塔, lit.
Buddhist pagoda) or tōba (塔婆, lit.
pagoda), and
derive historically from the...
- April,
Three Pagodas P****
becomes a site of the
Songkran Festival with ****fights,
Burmese kickboxing and
various folk dancing.
Three Pagodas P****, Encyclopædia...
- slim book to the
actual legend of the
seven pagodas (Fyson 28). He
recounts a
local belief regarding the
pagodas, that the god
Indra became jealous of this...
- a
protective gl**** case. The
pagoda is
considered by art
historians to be one of the
finest Korean pagodas. The
pagoda was
designated as the
second national...
- with
China creating pagodas using bricks,
Korea creating pagodas using stone, and ****an
continuing to use wood.
Korean stone pagodas were
first created...
