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Amarāvatī

Amarāvatī, in the Palnadu/Guntur area of Andhra Pradesh, southern India, is the site of a great Buddhist stūpa (the Mahācaitya) on the Krishna river, built in phases between roughly the third century BCE and the third century CE. Associated with the Mahāsāṃghika school, it was a major centre of early Indian Buddhism, renowned for its carved limestone reliefs.

6 most-discussed ideas

Works composed here

Ideas shaped here

Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Amarāvatī. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.