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The Chinese tombs are different from the Buddhist *stūpas* in their origin and in form. That is mostly due to the fact that while the *stūpas* contained the sacred relic of Buddha, the Chinese tombs are monuments built in memory of the ordinary dead, because the Chinese are well known, like all Turanian peoples, as the worshippers of ancestors. These tombs are ‘often merely conical mounds of earth, with a circle of stones round their base.’