Regional Names
Regional names for stupa include:
- Chaitya (Nepal)
- Dāgaba (usually spelled "Dagoba") (Sinhalese: දාගැබ, from Sanskrit dhātu-garbha. (दातु-गर्भ) "relic-chamber" )
- Chedi (Thai: เจดีย์, from the Pāli cetiya (चेतिय)
- Candi (Indonesia and Malaysia, pronounced 'chandi').
- Chorten མཆོད་རྟེན༏ (Wylie: mchod rten), "basis of offering")
- Chedey (Cambodia)
- Phrathāt (Lanna)
- Havitta (Dhivehi: ހަވިއްތަ) or ustubu (Maldives)
- Suburgan/Suvarga (Mongolia)
- Субурган (Russia)
- Tap (Korea, from Chinese)
- Tháp (Vietnam )
- Thart (Laos)
- Ta (Chinese: 塔; Mandarin Pinyin: tă; Jyutping: taap3), ancient transliteration of Sanskrit stupa.
- Sotoba (Japan, Tō (Japan, from Chinese)
- Zedi (Myanmar )
- Setaow (စေတဳ, /cetɔe/)
- Tseti (ၸေႇတီႇ) or Puhto (ပူႉထူဝ်း)
- Chedi/Thoopam (Tamil
- Pagoda South East Asia
- Tope (Hindi: स्तूप, from the Sanskrit)
- Garbha (Sanskrit: गर्भ, meaning a storehouse or repository)
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