While everyone else was doing work in the military camps, I wandered around the ancient buddhist ruins of Anuradhapura. Once apon a time there were over 80,000 Buddhist monks living and working here. And they built several of these Dagobas, big mounds of mud bricks - no one knows why or what they are for - crazy!
It was a hot hot day - walking around in the mud in my barefeet - checking out the Buddha.
dagoba is a word derived from the sanskrit words "dhathu" which means relic, and "garbha" which means repository.
ReplyDeleteat the beginning dagobas were built as a repository for the relics of lord buddha.
subsequently, the ancient kings built dagobas to secure their treasure.
over time, people began to contribute to the treasures that were kept inside a dagoba -- they considered it as an act of arms-giving.
dagobas are also called "stupa" or "chaitya."