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There were hundreds of pieces, friezes of figures in relief, fragments of statues and slabs crowded with figures that had encrusted the brick walls of the Buddhist stupas and viharas of the North Country and now, dug up and labelled, made the pride of the Museum.

Accordingly historians' claims about stupas as symbols are surely supposed to be understood as claims of implicitly restricted scope about the understanding of a, possibly quite small, class of Buddhist practitioners (much as historians' claims about, say, the symbolism of Gnosticism, Jewish Kabbalah or Sufi poetry are to be understood as claims about the understanding of certain, possibly quite small, groups of religious practitioners in the societies of those periods, rather than as claims about the understanding of the members of those societies in general).

The land illegally transferred is located adjacent to the encroached path to ancient Buddhist Stupa and monastery Dharmarajika which dates back to 3rd century B.C., and listed as a UNESCO's World Heritage and accredited for being one of the earliest Buddhist monuments and one of the 8 largest Buddhist stupas in South Asia.

Lone, a senior archaeologist from the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Jaulian consists of the main stupa and 27 subsidiary stupas located around it, and two adjacent courts.

Later, in the 7th century, the Swat valley remained a significant centre of Tantric Buddhism, and the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang described the valley as home to hundreds of Buddhist sculptures, monasteries and stupas. There are thousands of sites scattered along the various routes and passes leading to Afghanistan and China.

Two stupas toppled at Kdey Ta Koy pagoda as a consequence of a riverbank collapse in Phnom Penh's Chbar Ampov district.

He said during a tour to different sites he observed that the recent rains had caused severe damages to scores of priceless stucco sculptures and stupas showing signs of crumbling.

Since the 3rd century to the 11th century, Gilgit was a Buddhist center, a Buddhist monastery and three stupas containing Sanskrit manuscripts were excavated in 1931.

Further North lies Swat, once known as Udayana, which is covered in relics from the Buddhist era with ruined monasteries and stupas present throughout the lower part of the valley.

Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past: Sculpture from the Buddhist Stupas of Andhra Pradesh.

Separately, Veal Sbov commune chief Yun Sophal told The Post on Wednesday that authorities have built columns aimed to buttress the wall of the sliding riverbank, which caused two pagoda stupas to topple on October 20 and 21.