Buddhist Arts https://buddhist-arts.com a photographic journal Fri, 26 Apr 2024 23:03:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://buddhist-arts.com/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/logo-new-qicsj4ekfvb8prww9nvzeshe0ymrfa3t398fx5ykws.png Buddhist Arts https://buddhist-arts.com 32 32 Dhammayangyi https://buddhist-arts.com/dhammayangyi/ Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:00:32 +0000 https://buddhist-arts.com/?p=4069 Location: SE of Bagan Inscription inside entrance hall An inscription inside the entrance hall dates to 1165. It lists bonded servants, including female singers and dancers. Along with that there are inventory lists, a monastery dedication. There’s a warning for anyone allowing the temple to fall into ruin, “may the rice and curry they eat, […]

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]]> Min-o-chantha Group https://buddhist-arts.com/minochantha-group/ Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:18:07 +0000 https://buddhist-arts.com/?p=4054 The Minochantha group consists of 3 stupas. They are non-pentagonal representations of the hpaya-nga-zu theme. The other non-pentagonal temple with this theme is the Penathagu (Pe-na-tha-gu) group. The hpaya-nga-zu theme is an iconographic portrayal of the ‘Five Sacred Lords’ depicting five buddhas seated in niches beneath the stupa. I did not take any pictures of […]

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]]> Nat Taung Kyaung – Teak Monastery https://buddhist-arts.com/nat-taung-kyaung-teak-monastery/ Sat, 06 Apr 2024 19:32:27 +0000 https://buddhist-arts.com/?p=3942 We visited this monastery on our second day in Bagan in 2009. This was the only monastery we visited while in Bagan. According to Sylvia Fraser-Lu, this is possibly the oldest monastery in the Taung Bi area of Bagan (Pagan).  Location: Close to the Irrawaddy riverbank in Taungbi, and to Old Bagan.  Year Built:  It […]

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]]> Shwezigon https://buddhist-arts.com/shwezigon/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 02:09:55 +0000 https://buddhist-arts.com/?p=3834 Shwezigon Location: Nyaung U – western sector close to river bank. Year Built:  Another early temple, it was started in the reign of Anawratha before 1084 when Kyanzittha usurped the throne. Anawratha’s other large temple is Shwesandaw. Builder: Anawrahta built the lower terraces and Kyanzittha built the superstructure completing the building. This cannot be confirmed, […]

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]]> Manuha https://buddhist-arts.com/manuha/ Sat, 09 Mar 2024 23:34:56 +0000 https://buddhist-arts.com/?p=3812 Location: Myinkaba Village, southern edge. Close to Nanpaya. Year Built:  Manuha was built by the “captive” Mon king Manuha. In Mandalay there is a stone inscription described King Manuha, who owned 32 white elephants, built the guphaya with three colossal seated Buddha images, 14m high and a recumbent Buddha image, 17.6 meters long, completed in […]

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