Lexicographical Neighbors of Chorten
Literary usage of Chorten
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Central Asia and Tibet by Sven Anders Hedin (1903)
"... beside a chorten. it snowed in real earnest, and next day, the loth December,
the landscape wore a perfectly wintry aspect. From the pass above the camp ..."
2. Sikhim & Bhutan: Twenty-one Years on the North-east Frontier, 1887-1908 by John Claude White (1909)
"chorten Kara. New flowering trees. FOR some years I had been extremely anxious
to explore Eastern Bhutan and its neighbouring portion of Tibet, ..."
3. Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet by Sarat Chandra Das, William Woodville Rockhill (1902)
"The chorten is about 100 to 120 feet high, the top covered by a gilt dome, ...
There were inside the chorten innumerable niches filled with images of ..."
4. Pictorial Geographical Readers: Asia by Longmans, Green, and Co (1902)
"Sometimes at the end of the wall is a chorten. ... vermicelli: dough forced
through chorten : a building to hold the small holes so that it takes a ashes of ..."
5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1907)
"... (62) The chorten, looking backwards, or to the west from the foot of the
Po-ta-la ; (03) The so-called turquoise bridge ; (64) A street scene in Lhasa; ..."
6. Lhasa: An Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the by Perceval Landon (1905)
"Beside a barley field is a low mud-coloured chorten, and beside the chorten is
a heap of stones larger even than that before the great Buddha behind us. ..."
7. In the Footsteps of Marco Polo: Being the Account of a Journey Overland from by Clarence Dalrymple Bruce (1907)
"... erections are the chorten (offering receptacle), which is a dedicatory pyramid
erected in ... is a magnified chorten with a roadway leading through it. ..."
8. Buddhism in Tibet: Illustrated by Literary Documents and Objects of by Emil Schlagintweit (1863)
"... my .brother Adolphe saw a hollow tower-chorten, which was constructed of planks.
It stood close to the monastery, and was perhaps but an enclosure for ..."
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