noun. A dome-shaped monument used as a Buddhist or Jainist reliquary or commemorative shrine.

noun. A dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha.

noun. A stupe (medicated cloth or sponge).

"The word "stupa" is Sanskrit for "to heap" and this refers to the mound like shape of the earliest stupas."

chedi  pagoda  wat  

lupa  pupa  

antenna tower  arch  barbican  barrow  beehive tomb