STŪPA (in Sanskrit; Pali: thūpa, whence tope). - A sepulchral monument of stones and earth, in the form of a dome, erected to commemorate persons famous for holiness or social importance. In Buddhism this honor was reserved to the arhat, to the "worthy" one who partakes of nīrvāṇa (v.).
The thūpa erected over a part of the ashes of the Buddha (v.), discovered by W. G. Peppé near Piprāva (Tarā), in 1898, was also dhātugarbha (Pali: dhātugabbha; Sinhalese: dāgaba) because it contained "an urn with relics", but it is an error to use dāgaba in the sense of tope and vice versa.
BibliographyT. W. Rhys Davids, India buddhistica (trans. it.), Florence 1925, pp. 86 ff.
BIBL.: T. W. Rhys Davids, India buddhistica (trans. it.), Florence 1925, pp. 86 ff.
Belloni, Filippi Ferdinando. “STŪPA (in sanscrito; palico: thūpa, da cui tope).” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, coll. 1441–1444. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/stupa-in-sanscrito-palico-thupa-da-cui-tope.
MLA
Belloni, Filippi Ferdinando. “STŪPA (in sanscrito; palico: thūpa, da cui tope).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, coll. 1441–1444. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/stupa-in-sanscrito-palico-thupa-da-cui-tope.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec11_stupa_in_sanscrito_palico_thup,
author = {Belloni, Filippi Ferdinando},
title = {STŪPA (in sanscrito; palico: thūpa, da cui tope)},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XI},
pages = {1441--1444},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1953},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/stupa-in-sanscrito-palico-thupa-da-cui-tope}
}
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