Take a virtual tour of the Great Shrine of Amaravati in south-east India, once one of the most important Buddhist monuments in the world. Founded around 200 BC, the site flourished for over a thousand years, and the domed structure may have contained a relic of an important spiritual teacher or of the Buddha himself. The site was gradually abandoned during the 14th century, and by the late 18th century materials from the Shrine were being recycled for new buildings and temples. In the 19th centu