Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi

World Heritage

India

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Located on a hill overlooking the plains, about 40 km from Bhopal, the ruins of Sanchi consist of a group of Buddhist monuments (monumental columns, palaces, temples and monasteries), all in varying states of conservation, most of which date back to the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. It is the oldest surviving Buddhist sanctuary and was a major Buddhist centre in India until the 12th century AD.

Mason's marks in Kharoshti indicate that craftsmen from the north-west were responsible for foreign ...

The southern gateway of the Great Stupa (Stupa 1) at Sanchi was, according to an inscription (see ar...

The Great Stupa under the Sungas. The Sungas nearly doubled the diameter of the initial stupa, encas...

Sanchi Temple 40 was a 3rd-century BCE temple, one of the first known in India, constructed around t...

The Great Stupa at Sanchi, Eastern Gateway

Sunga pillar No25 with own capital on the side

Plan of the monuments of the hill of Sanchi, numbered 1 to 50

The capital of the Sanchi pillar of Ashoka, as discovered (left), and simulation of original appeara...

General view of the Stupas at Sanchi by F.C. Maisey, 1851 (The Great Stupa on top of the hill, and S...

The Ashoka pillar at Sanchi

Pompeii Lakshmi, 1st century CE

Sunga period railings were initially blank (left, Great Stupa), and only started to be decorated cir...

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Information extracted from Wikidata

country	India
image	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sanchi-N-MP-220.jpg
located in the administrative territorial entity	Sanchi Town
executive body	Sanchi
office held by head of the organization	http://g.co/kg/m/01p6mg
Commons category	Sanchi
coordinate location	Point(77.7363 23.480655555)
page banner	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WV%20banner%20Sanchi%20stupa.jpg
native label	साँची का स्तूप
height	54
diameter	36.6
World Heritage criteria	World Heritage selection criterion (vi)
World Heritage criteria	World Heritage selection criterion (ii)
World Heritage criteria	World Heritage selection criterion (i)
World Heritage criteria	Larousse Encyclopedia online

start time	1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
official name	نصب سانشي البوذية
official name	Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi
official name	Monumentos budistas de Sanchi
official name	Monuments bouddhiques de Sânchî
official name	サーンチーの仏教建造物群
official name	Boeddhistische monumenten van Sanchi
official name	Буддийские памятники в Санчи
official name	桑吉佛教古迹
volume as quantity	World Heritage selection criterion (i)
volume as quantity	World Heritage selection criterion (ii)
volume as quantity	Larousse Encyclopedia online
volume as quantity	World Heritage selection criterion (vi)