Bojjannakonda & Lingalakonda, Andhra Pradesh, India    (Dec 2022)        


Bojjannakonda and Lingalakonda are two Buddhist sites on adjacent hillocks near a village called Sankaram in Andhra Pradesh. The hills contain numerous monolithic stupas, rock-cut caves, chaityas, and monasteries that flourished between 4th-9th Century CE. (source)


Bojjannakonda

Caves and a monastery

On a hill top (more)

Buddhas on the konda

Main statues on site

Stupa, lower cave (more)

Stupa, lower cave (more)

Exterior, upper cave

Exterior, upper cave

Wasp's nest

Maha Stupa (more)

Dome was made of brick

Maha Stupa (more)

Maha stupa and vihara

Rock-cut stupas (1, 2)

Rock-cut stupas

Visitors

Two-tiered monastery

Monastery (more)

Chaitya & central hall

Maha stupa from vihara

Lower tier with rooms

Monks' rooms (more)

Countryside (more)

Posing lizard

Lingalakonda

View of Lingalakonda

Path up to the ruins

Rock-cut stupas (more)

Rock-cut stupas

Rock-cut cave

Badly eroded

Another rock-cut cave
with a stupa in it

Roots of a tree

Rock-cut stupas

Stupa graveyard

Stupa graveyard (more)

Lizard (more)

 



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