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Chorten

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | | Copyright

Chorten (mchod.rten, ‘receptacle of offerings’). The Tibetan development of the Indian Buddhist stūpa. The chorten is similar in function to the stūpa as a receptacle for the remains of a holy person and as a shrine containing texts, images, etc., but differs in its architectural development.

Along with the two types of stūpa common in India—the basic form and the form with a raised walkway (which in Tibet is usually too narrow to be anything more than symbolic)—a chorten comprising an archway may be found at the entrance to a city, and the uniquely Tibetan Multiple Door (sgo.mang) chorten is especially prolific.

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chörten

A Dictionary of Buddhism | 2004 | | Copyright

chörten (Tib., mchod-rten). A reliquary or stūpa in Tibet. These structures proliferate wherever Tibetan Buddhism has been influential, and are considered to be an object for worship (pūjā), representing the mind of the Buddha or absolute reality (dharma-kāya).

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