The Buddhist Stupa is an hemispherical building where monks meditate and it has been used by them since the 5th century BC. These dome-like structures influenced in Chinese pagodas (right answer), which are towers built for religious purposes around the 3th century BC, almost 200 years after the first Stupas. Similarly to the stupas, the pagados were used by Buddhist and Taoist in many parts of Asia. Here you can see on the left a stupa and a pagoda on the right.
