The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s2.35

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³ A stupa was a Buddhist shrine, circular and domed, usually but not always enclosing a relic. Buildings, even of stupa form, which did not enclose a relic were usually called chaityas: de la Vallée-Poussin p. 149. See on stupas, archaeology apart, Foucher I chap. I, and the long study by P. Mus, ‘Barabudur’, *BEFEO* XXXII, 1932, pp. 269–439, XXXIII pp. 577–980, XXXIV pp. 175–400.