pagodas in English

noun
1
a Hindu or Buddhist temple or sacred building, typically a many-tiered tower, in India and East Asia.
Buddhist temples incorporate pagodas , a design which came from India around the first century C.E. (the time when the religion made its way to China).

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1. Basso relievo, inside Seven Pagodas

2. Buddhist pagodas have sprung back to life.

3. Police surrounded the pagodas of monks suspected of leading the protest.

4. Furthermore, four famous pagodas, each with its own architectural style, are still standing.

5. Most of the voting stations were based in school buildings and Buddhist pagodas to reduce costs.

6. Mounds might be raised or pagodas built in a flat landscape or on a hilltop plateau.

7. It is one of the largest and wealthiest Buddhist temples in China, and contains numerous pagodas and Buddhist grottoes.

8. Battambang is a classically quaint provincial capital – old-world architecture and even older pagodas set picturesquely along a river.

9. Even here in Beijing, it is cloned, copied and reproduced in these formatted houses that have wiped pagodas off the map.

10. The Japanese garden offers a mixture of dainty ceramic temples and pagodas, bamboo thickets and ornamental ponds surrounded by giant acanthus plants.

11. He told me, " Out of 89 religious establishments in Reunion... there are 62 Catholic parishes, twenty pagodas... three mosques, and four Adventist temples. "

12. Burma's sprays of bougainvillea, its gilded pagodas and the sway of schoolgirls dressed in the sarongs called longyis all create a false sense of contentment.

13. It's a glutinous side dish that's perfect for practicing your chopstick skills, for sopping up curry sauce and, amazingly, for building really strong pagodas.

14. Famous for its canals, pagodas, and houses on stilts, the city has been a hub of commerce, politics, and religion for over 1,000 years.

15. The last time I visited Huaxi in 200 it was building a cluster of giant pagodas, which then appeared outlandishly large compared to everything else in the village.

16. 27 Mmm, sticky rice. It's a glutinous side dish that's perfect for practicing your chopstick skills, for sopping up curry sauce and, amazingly, for building really strong pagodas.

17. Welcome to Myanmar (Burma) It's a new era for this extraordinary and complex land, where the landscape is scattered with gilded pagodas and the traditional ways of Asia endure.

18. While authorities allow many government-affiliated churches and pagodas to hold worship services, they ban religious activities they arbitrarily deem contrary to the “national interest,” “public order,” or “national unity.”

19. While authorities allow many government-affiliated churches and pagodas to hold worship services, they ban religious activities they deem contrary to the “national interest,” “public order,” or “national great unity.”

20. While authorities allow many government-affiliated churches and pagodas to hold worship services, they ban religious activities they arbitrarily deem contrary to the “national interest,” “public order,” or “national great unity.”

21. Battambang is a classically quaint provincial capital – old-world architecture and even older pagodas set picturesquely along a river, and even though the city is one of the country’s largest, it is still lightly touristed

22. The Bestowal of alms, offerings of rice to priests, the founding of a monastery, erection of pagodas, with which the country is crowded, the building of a bridge or rest-house for the convenience of travellers …

23. If you think of the great buildings, of the cathedrals, of the temples, of the pyramids, of pagodas, of cities in India and beyond, you think of how incredible this is that that was realized not by some abstract idea, but by people.