It was an Islamic empire--as the Byzantine had been a Christian empire--that was literally the private holding of the Osmanli family from whom the concept of the Ottoman state could not be separated. The ruling house and the empire's civil and military ruling class were considered Ottomans.ecovery of Ottoman prestige was slow, but Anatolia was gradually reabsorbed, and in the 1420s Ottoman power had revived sufficiently to undertake fresh campaigns in Greece. Aside from scattered outposts in Greece, all that remained of the Byzantine Empire was its capital, Constantinople.
A stupa (Sanskrit: m., stÅ«pa heap) is a mound-like or hemispherical structure containing ÅarÄ«ra relics, typically the remains of Buddhist monks or nuns, used as a place of meditation.fter the parinirvana of the Buddha, his remains were cremated and the ashes divided and buried under eight mounds with two further mounds encasing the urn and the embers. The earliest archaeological evidence for the presence of Buddhist stupas dates to the late 4th century BCE in India.
There are as many forms of Buddhist worship as there are schools of Buddhism-and there are many of those. Worship in Mahayana tradition takes the form of devotion to Buddha and to Bodhisattvas.Worshippers may sit on the floor barefoot facing an image of Buddha and chanting.uddhist temples come in many shapes. Perhaps the best known are the pagodas of China and Japan. Another typical Buddhist building is the Stupa, which is a stone structure built over what are thought to be relics of the Buddha, or over copies of the Buddha's teachings.