When the great King Anawrahta of Pagan united the whole of Burma into a single kingdom in the eleventh century and made Theravada Buddhism the national religion, there were already in existence a ...

In Thailand, Sinhalese Buddhism made major inroads first in the peninsula in South Thailand - Nakhon ... Buddha relics brought from Sri Lanka were enshrined all over Thailand in Sri Lankan style ceti ...

Some of the spectacular finds were three colossal Buddha heads, a brick stupa with a crisscross design, a rectangular chaitya complex ... of early medieval Buddhism. Both sites are proof that ...

268-232 B.C.), Buddhism flourished in its western regions ... But the focal point of a cave complex is known as the chaitya, a long sacred hall resembling the nave of a church.

with archaeological and historical vestiges of Buddhism. The team identified the district court complex—with its colonial building resembling a Chaitya Vihara, constructed after the demolition ...