Raw data
Manikyala (lat. 33 degrees 28 min. N. x 73 degrees 14 min. E. ) is located twenty miles southeast of Rawalpindi in Pakistan. It consists of fifteen isolated stupas with attached monasteries. Most of the stupas were looted in the nineteenth century and extensive trenches have destroyed much of their structure. Coins found in the Great Stupa suggest a first century CE date of construction with re-building in the eighth century. Another of the stupas contained an extensive horde of coins of the reign of Kanishka. Debala Mitra, Buddhist Monuments (Calcutta: M. Dutt Shishu Sahitya Samad, 1971), 128-130
Input by: Stewart Gordon 05 April 2015
Final data (and their sources)
Last updated: 23 May 2015
Lat/Long coordinates' accuracy:
The monastery in question is assumed to be situated actually no farther than 200 m from the point defined by the coordinates below.
General location of the Manikyala monastic cluster, IN.
Lat 33.448079 Long 73.243362
Mapping & images: Falling Rain Genomics (http://www.fallingrain.com), 2014.
Google Map link:
Final data - explanatory notes
1. Monastery's name
- Manikyala monastic cluster
2. Monastery's modern country & province
- Pakistan: Punjab
3. Monastery's alternative/historical names
- Manikyala - Mitra 1971:128-130
- Tope Mankiala - https://www.google.com/maps/
- Mankiala - maps.google.com
4. Monastery's lat/long coordinates
- Approx. Lat 33.448079 Long 73.243362 - based on visual identification of the Mankiala Stupa in maps/satellite imagery, maps.google.com - tmciolek, 23 May 2015.
5. Other known nearby Buddhist monasteries
- [missing data]
6. Modern name of the known nearest city, town, or village
- Mankiala Railway Station - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mankiala_railway_station
7. The settlement's alternative/historical names
- [missing data]
8. The settlement's coordinates
- Approx. Lat 33.476485 Long 73.240255 - https://www.google.com/maps/
9. Monastery's major Buddhist tradition
- [missing data]
10. Monastery's Buddhist sub-tradition
- [missing data]
11. Date-early
- [missing data]
12. Date-intermediate
- [missing data]
13. Date-late
- [missing data]
14. Details of contacts with other monasteries
- [missing data]
15. Type of evidence regarding the monastery
- [missing data]
16. Additional notes
- [missing data] (incl. details of the size of the monastic population)
17. Corrections & addenda to this page were kindly provided by
- [missing data]
18. Known monks and nuns associated with this monastery
19. Available Printed Literature
- Debala Mitra, Buddhist Monuments (Calcutta: M. Dutt Shishu Sahitya Samad, 1971), 128-130
- [bibliographical details of the Book/Article 2]
- [bibliographical details of the Book/Article 3]
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