부산대학교 도서관

Usually a type of free-standing tower. The word pagoda is of unknown etymology, but it is thought by some scholars to be derived from the Sanskrit bhagavat, ‘sacred’, or the name Bhagavati, as applied to Durga and other Hindu goddesses. Its earliest known occurrence is in Duarte Barbosa’s account of the Malabar coast of India, which dates from c. 1518 and was first published in an Italian translation in the first volume of Giovanni Battista Ramusio’s Delle navigationi et viaggi… (Venice, 1550). Barbosa uses it to denote a particular type of temple in the Malabar region. Thereafter it came into general use to mean variously the varaha or hun (a gold coin formerly current in south India), an idol or a temple, particularly a many-storey Chinese temple. The extreme vagueness of the term has led to its use being restricted by most scholars to the specific contexts of Chinese, Japanese and Korean religious architecture and of chinoiserie in Europe, though it is sometimes used in the sense of a stupa or Buddhist reliquary monument in ...