This study focuses considered on the transformation of main stupas in terms of architectural spatial components based on bibliographic surveys concerning 59 documented Buddhist temple remains (excluding cave temples) in Central Asia. We prepared a database of Buddhist remains, and analyzed the spatial composition of each temple, judging from the extracted spatial components. We divided temples into 4 types based on their spatial composition characteristics: stupas, shrines, monasteries, the other inferior complexes; we created three-dimensional spatial schemas of each type and showed visually presented the spatial compositions of temples and the forms of stupas.
Nakamura et al. (Fri,) studied this question.