{"id":12059,"date":"2011-05-14T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/shanti-stupa-beautiful-white-buddhis\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T17:22:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T17:22:40","slug":"shanti-stupa-beautiful-white-buddhis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/shanti-stupa-beautiful-white-buddhis\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanti Stupa, A Beautiful White Buddhist Chorten in Leh, India"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anil Kumar Rajput is well known in the travel trade since 1980. He has worked in India and abroad, a boxer, a rifle shooter and a Para jumper in his college days. As Boy Scout and NCC cadet attended camps at many places which developed his interest in traveling and to explore new places, trekking, he loves driving to adventurous places and photography. <\/b><\/i>
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\n( Get Travel guidance from A.K. Rajput – 9810506646 )<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

History
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A white dome Stupa<\/strong> (Chorten) built on a Changspa<\/strong>, a steep  hill, opposite the Leh Palace<\/strong> different in architecture  from the Ladhakhi style gives a magnificent view at sunrise<\/strong> and sunset<\/strong>, it looks more beautiful at night illuminated in the white light. It was built by the Ladakh<\/strong> and Japanese Buddhists<\/strong>, Ladakhis offered voluntary labor, construction started in 1983 and it was inaugurated in August 1991<\/strong> by His Holiness The Dalai Lama<\/strong>. It was built to promote world peace and prosperty and to commemorate the 2500 years of Buddhism<\/strong>.<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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The Bright Shanti Stupa at Leh<\/b><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Structure
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It is built as a two level structure, a flight of stairs leads to the first level where a Dharmchakra<\/strong> (as in white strip of Indian national flag) with two deer on each side, features a central image of Lord Buddha<\/strong> in golden colour sitting on a platform turning the Dharmchakra<\/strong> wheel, the second level depicting  the birth of Buddha<\/strong>, defeating of devils in meditation and death of Buddha along with many small images of meditating Buddha<\/strong>, all embossed in vibrant colours.<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Various depictions of Lord Buddha\u2019s life & Shanti Stupa under the BIG bright cloudy Sky <\/i><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\nShanti Stupa<\/strong> is situated at a height of 4267 meters overlooking the Leh city, it gives a panaoromic view<\/strong> of surrounding snow capped mountains and the Leh city.<\/div>\n
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Anil Kumar Rajput is well known in the travel trade since 1980. He has worked in India and abroad, a boxer, a rifle shooter and a Para jumper in his college days. As Boy Scout and NCC cadet attended camps at many places which developed his interest in traveling and to explore new places, trekking, he loves driving to adventurous places and photography.  ( Get Travel guidance from A.K. Rajput – 9810506646 ) History A white dome Stupa (Chorten) built on a Changspa, a steep  hill, opposite the Leh Palace different in architecture  from the Ladhakhi style gives a magnificent view at sunrise and sunset, it looks more beautiful at night illuminated in <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,1],"tags":[340,1879],"class_list":["post-12059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","category-update","tag-tour-travel","tag-update","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46106,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059\/revisions\/46106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}