{"id":89314,"date":"2019-10-26T17:11:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T11:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11192"},"modified":"2019-10-26T17:11:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T11:41:47","slug":"thotlakonda-monastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/thotlakonda-monastery\/","title":{"rendered":"Thotlakonda monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Mahastupa of the Thotlakonda monastery which was reconstructed in 2016 by the State Archaeology department has collapsed recently.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Thotlakonda monastery:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Thotlakonda Buddhist Complex is situated in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.<\/li><li>Thotlakonda was under the influence of ancient Kalinga which was an important source of dissemination of Buddhism to Sri Lanka and various parts of Southeast Asia.<\/li><li>The monastery also provides an insight into the process of transoceanic diffusion of Indic culture, especially Buddhism.<\/li><li>Thotlakonda monastery came to light during an aerial survey by the Indian Navy for setting up a naval base.<\/li><li>After its discovery, major excavations have been conducted which established the existence of a Hinayana Buddhist complex which flourished 2000 years ago.<\/li><li>The excavation has also revealed Satavahana dynasty lead and Roman silver coins indicating foreign trade.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The Mahastupa of the Thotlakonda monastery which was reconstructed in 2016 by the State Archaeology department has collapsed recently. Facts: About Thotlakonda monastery: Thotlakonda Buddhist Complex is situated in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. Thotlakonda was under the influence of ancient Kalinga which was an important source of dissemination of Buddhism to Sri Lanka and various&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/thotlakonda-monastery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thotlakonda monastery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[2641,6761],"class_list":["post-89314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-andhra-pradesh","tag-thotlakonda-monastery","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704277314},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}