Udayagiri Buddhist Monastery ( Jajpur )
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Udayagiri Buddhist Monastery ( Jajpur ) - Location details
Udayagiri Buddhist Monastery ( Jajpur ), Monastery Heritage, Jajpur, Jajpur, Odisha
Udayagiri Buddhist Monastery ( Jajpur ) - Food details
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Udayagiri Buddhist Monastery ( Jajpur ) - History details
Part of Odisha’s ‘Diamond Triangle’ with Ratnagiri and Lalitagiri, Udayagiri crowns a low hill by the Birupa with a great brick stupa, two monasteries, cells round a courtyard and prayer halls. Flourishing roughly between the 7th–12th centuries, it yields exquisite images of Buddha, Tara and Avalokiteshvara and inscriptions on stepped wells. Often confused with Bhubaneswar’s Jain caves, this Udayagiri is 32 km from Jajpur.
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