Visited this Stupa on 1st April, 2018. The Great Stupa at Sanchi is one of the oldest stone structures in
India, and an important monument of Indian Architecture. It was originally
commissioned by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka the Great in the 3rd century BCE.
Its nucleus was a simple hemispherical brick structure built over the relics of
the Buddha. is about forty six kilo meters from Bhopal. It has some amazing
sculptures depicting the scenes from the life of Buddha. It is built on a
flat-topped sandstone hill that rises some 300 feet (90 metres) above the
surrounding country stands India's best-preserved group of Buddhist monuments,
collectively designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1989. The most
noteworthy of the structures is the Great Stupa (stupa no. 1), discovered in
1818. A large number of Buddhist tourists from Sri Lanka, Thailand and Nepal
could be seen at the site.
