单词 | stupa |
释义 | † stupan.1 Obsolete. rare. 1. Medicine. A wad of tow or a piece of cloth used in the fomentation of a wound or part of the body; = stupe n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > fomentation fomentationa1400 stupea1400 stopine1582 stupa1602 fotus1616 1602 W. Clowes Treat. Cure Struma 29 Then lay on a Stupa beaten with the White of an Egge. 1672 R. Wiseman Treat. Wounds 95 Apply it upon a round thick Stupa, which hath first been wet in Oxycrate. 2. Botany. A mass or tuft of matted hairs. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [noun] > tuft or matted hairs stupa1826 weft1875 1826 G. N. Lloyd Bot. Terminol. 198 Stupeus (from stupa, tow), stiff matted hairs form what is termed a stuppa. This appearance takes place in the filaments of the genera Dianella and Hypandra..and also in the abortive buds of Acacia undulata. 1846 C. Johnson Sowerby's Eng. Bot. (ed. 2) XII. 134 Sphacelaria plumosa... Frond without stuppa, elongated, branched, inarticulate, pinnate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). stupan.2 1. A structure serving as a Buddhist monument, shrine, or mausoleum; esp. a domed or bell-shaped structure topped with a spire. Cf. chedi n., dagoba n., tope n.5The earliest stupas were earthen or stone burial mounds or cairns, from which the typical domed or bell-shaped forms evolved in South and South-East Asia, while pyramidal and tower-shaped forms developed elsewhere in Asia. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > mound or dome mind hilla1425 mound1775 Indian mound1791 tope1815 tell1840 stupa1841 ruin-mound1911 ahu1917 ishan1921 pillow mound1928 1841 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 6 325 He came to Kausambi. Here there were many topes or stupás, a statue of Buddha, the grotto of the venomous dragon..&c. 1876 J. Fergusson Hist. Indian & Eastern Archit. i. iii. 57 The difficulty was met by assigning a portion [of the remains of Buddha] to each of the contending parties, who are said to have erected stupas to contain them. 1901 R. Kipling Kim i. 8 Fragments of statues and slabs crowded with figures..had encrusted the brick walls of the Buddhist stupas and viharas of the North Country. 1929 E. A. Powell Last Home of Myst. x. 208 Tibetan pilgrims visit this ancient tope each year..they pour down from the northern passes by the tens of thousands..to pitch their black tents on the plain beside the stupa. 1970 Artibus Asiae 25 49 Above them in tiers are 2 bell-like stupas on either side. 2008 Times of India 30 June 4/1 Emperor Ashoka chose the verdant calm of Nalasopara..to build a Buddhist stupa that would house relics of the faith. 2. A (portable) Buddhist reliquary in the shape of a stupa (sense 1). ΚΠ 1893 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 10 Nov. 1027/2 A Relic Shrine or ‘Stupa’, in four parts (incomplete). Gold repousse and chased with conventional ornament in bands... H. 15 in., diam. 12¼ in. 1914 A. Getty Gods of Northern Buddhism p. x (list of illustrations) Stūpa containing prayers. Wood, painted, height 18 in... One of the miniature stūpas ordered by the Empress Koken Tenno in the twelfth century. 1927 Bull. Art Inst. Chicago 21 110/2 This paper [sc. a prayer scroll] was rolled and kept in a small round wooden stupa measuring 8¾ inches in height. 1990 New China Q. Feb. 104/3 This gold stupa, containing a unique agate pot..with two Buddha's relics and five gilded pearls, is 11 cm high and weighs 269 g. 2011 K. R. Hall Hist. Early Southeast Asia ii. 58 In 503, a Funan monarch also sent the Chinese emperor a coral statue of the Buddha and an ivory stupa as ‘tributary’ gifts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11602n.21841 |
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