The Mahachaitya (Main Stupa) of this complex. One of the 50 Buddhist Power Places acc. Keith Dowman. Some more pictures are documented under https://www.facebook.com/ChivaChaitya/photos/. Used classification : Votive Chaityas (Small Chaityas), Monumental Chaityas (Mahachaityas), Stupas and Tibetan Chorten.
7th ct. / 1372 / 17th ct.
No. 05
Map from U. Wiesner, Nepal, Du Mont Kunstreise-Führer 1997
Foto by F. Nunnemann in 2008 A.D.
Foto in Carl Pruscha, Kathmandu Valley, Vol. 2, 1st ed., Wien 1975
Swayambhu Mahachaitya, A Source of Buddhist Cultural Heritage of Nepal, http://pnclink.org/annual/annual2003/programe/presenpdf/110929.pdf
Ulrich Wiesner, Nepal, Du Mont Kunst-Reiseführer, 1. Aufl. Köln 1997
