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Amaravati stupa remnants in Chennai museum deserve as much support as Telangana’s Buddhavanam
The new 'stupa' has 133 sculpted sandstone panels on its drum and dome- including one of BR Ambedkar embracing Buddhism-and a brass-coated mandapam with eight statues of the Buddha (made by some 1,200 artisans from Allagadda in Andhra Pradesh. The sprawling complex also has a Jatakavanam, a Dhyanavanam, a convention centre, hotels, auditoria, a Buddhist arts and crafts village and even a traditional Buddhist medicine centre.
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