A chaitya, chaitya hall, chaitya-griha, (Sanskrit: Caitya; Pāli: Cetiya) refers to a shrine, sanctuary, temple or prayer hall in Indian religions. [1][2] The term is most common in Buddhism, where it refers to a space with a stupa and a rounded apse at the end opposite the entrance, and a high roof with a rounded profile. [3] .

2024年8月26日 · Chaityas were specifically designed as places of worship for Buddhist monks and devotees. Unlike residential Viharas, Chaityas served as sacred assembly halls with religious ceremonies and reverence. The term "chaitya" encompasses various objects deserving of worship, including stupas, Bodhi trees, Buddha images, and Bodhisattva representations.

A chaitya is a type of Jain or Buddhist shrine. In Jainism, specially in Taran Panth, the terms chaitya or chaityalaya are still used, often to designate small temples. Chaityavasi Jain monks used to live in the compounds of Jain temples.

2016年5月28日 · Both early Chaityas and Viharas were made by woods and later stone-cut Chaityas and Viharas were made. Chaitya was a rectangular prayer hall with a stupa placed in the centre, the purpose was prayer.

Boudha Stupa (Nepali: बौद्धनाथ; Newari: खास्ति चैत्य); or Jarung Kashor (Let it be done, Slip of the tongue) [2] (Standard Tibetan: བྱ་རུང་ཀ་ཤོར།, Wylie: bya rung ka shor), also known as Khasti Chaitya or Khāsa Chaitya, is a stupa and major spiritual landmark [3] seen as the ...

What Is A Chaitya Hall? The Buddhist Prayer – Hall. Large – vaulted hall with apsidal end and divided longitudinally by two colonnades into a broad nave and two aisles. Stupa in the apse. Aisles and apsidal end for circumambulation and nave for congregational service. Why A …

Another excavated cave about a hundred years later is the magnificent Prayer hall or Chaitya, at Karle in the Poona district. This too has been excavated from the living rock and is unparalleled for its lofty and elevated impression. The size is truly stupendous, 124'x46-1/2'x45'.

Arising historically from the chaitya (funerary mounds) of early Buddhism and symbolically from the tope (ushnisha), bundle of hair, on the crown of the Buddha's head, the stupa is viewed as a physical representation of the unseen enlightened mind of a Buddha.

2021年2月6日 · According to Percy Brown, the prototype of Chaitya is to be found in sanctuaries belonging to the Ajivika sect associated with Jainism and Vaishnavism. Chaitya temples were carved in rock or built as free-standing constructions of stone, brick or wood.

2018年9月13日 · A chaitya is a type of hall found in India used in complexes in Buddhism. The chaitya hall is a pillared inner sanctuary and patronage site for worship as well as prayer.