Pagoda festivals(Paya pwè) held throughout the country also usually on Full Moon days and most of them will be on the Full Moon ofTabaung(February/March) including theShwedagon Pagoda: They attract not only crowds of pilgrims from near and far, often in caravans of bullock carts, but they...
On August 12, after just 17 days in power, Sein Lwin resigned the presidency. The protesters were ecstatic but unsure about their next move. They demanded that the sole civilian member of the upper political echelon, Dr. Maung Maung, be appointed to replace him. Maung Maung would remain pr...
Not only were these regional museums opened and governed by the government, but religious museums were also opened by the trustee boards of the pagodas. Among them, the most famous one is the Shwedagon Pagoda Museum whose establishment started from around the 1900s. The present-day Shwedagon Pag...
The front shows a picture of the Shwedagone Pagoda in Myanmar. Written on the front by the sender was the following description: “This building is just like the Burmese people, showy, [?], glittering on the outside, as far as they know how to do – and that’s all.” Makes me th...
The great Muslim Sultanate of Mrauk-U existed in Rakhine State, and its ruins are almost as wonderful a sight as theShwedagon Pagodaand the Pagodas of the Bagan Plain. Nearly all of the Arakanese practice Theravada Buddhism. They consider themselves one of the earliest adopters of the teachings...
Jerusalem, Vatican City, Amritsar, Makkah, Madinah, Najaf and Karbala, as well as religious spots such as Angkor Wat, Bagan, Shwedagon Pagoda, Temple of the Emerald Buddha, Temple of The Tooth, Somnath Temple, Samarkand, Bukhara and many other great mosques, shrines, temples and cathedral...
After surviving a colonial administration of more than 100 years, Myanmar became an independent nation in January 1948 due to the independence struggle by the likes of General Aung San, (the father of the noted democracy heroineAung San Suu Kyi), who was ruthlessly killed by his political rival...
Today the Shwedagon pagoda has grown to over 370 feet. The Buddha's Visits to the Region The Myanmar oral tradition speaks of four visits of the Buddha to the region. While these visits were of utmost significance in their own right, they are also important in having established places of ...