PAGODAS and TEMPLES in MYANMAR

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Myanmar pagoda, Myanmar temples.



- Myanmar Burma pagodas and temples.

Pagodas and a Buddhist temple are more or less a synonym of Myanmar, 'The golden Land' or 'The Land of Pagodas'.

Pagodas are present everywhere; in cities and towns, villages and hamlets, on the banks and sometimes right in rivers and seas. A oriental pagoda always represents the deep dedication to Buddhism as you can see at pagoda pictures below and elsewhere in our website. Sometimes people create a garden pagoda but this is mainly for decorative purposes. In a real authentic Japanese garden a pagoda is always placed on a strategic point. The most beautiful Myanmar style pagoda outside Myanmar is at Penang Georgetown in Malaysia, here are the best pagoda pictures, about Thai pagodas you can find more at Thailand travel.

Perched atop hills and mountains, in forests and glades, beside highways and byways, gleaming golden or glinting white in the sunlight and symbolizing the firm faith in Theravada Buddhism of 80% of its inhabitants. A Buddhist pagoda is almost always a golden or yellow pagoda or a white pagoda.

Buddhist pagodas are constantly built and renovated to gain merit and / or it needs a repair, in particular after the heavy monsoon floods. Sometimes a pagoda collapses, but this don't happen often since the pagoda architecture is in a way that there is no hollow space inside. A pagoda or zedi is a solid structure, this is similar with a big pagoda and small pagoda.

Pagodas always look more or less in the same way, it wont matter if it

is a Myanmar or Burmese, a Chinese pagoda, Japanese pagoda or Thai pagoda etc. The main difference is mostly the environ of a pagoda. Sometimes a whole small village is built around a pagoda, as it is with the Shwedagon Pagoda and sometimes the pagoda is isolated on top of a hill. Pagodas are even built into the river, a example of a pagoda in the river is the Kyauktan Pagoda on the way from Yangon to Syriam.

Opposite the northern entrance of the Shwedagon Pagoda on the banks of a small lake is the world peace pagoda, a very idyllic pagoda picture.

The Shwedagon Pagoda Platform Yangon Myanmar
Shwedagon Pagoda Platform Yangon Myanmar

Eye catching are also the other pagodas and temples on the Shwedagon Pagoda Platform. Take a look at the great scenery around the Shwedagon Pagoda looking down over Yangon.

Temple Cross Section Myanmar - BurmaTemple Layout Myanmar - Burma
Temple Cross Section and Layout Myanmar - Burma

The temple layout has its origins in the caves used by Buddhists of the very early days in India, the Burmese word is  gu, or cave.

The hollow structure of a temple allows the visitor to enter. With the time and the emergence of different building techniques the layout of Buddhist temples grew more sophisticated spreading out into chambers and passageways.

Pagoda or Stupa Cross Section Myanmar - BurmaPagoda or Stupa Layout Myanmar - Burma
Pagoda or Stupa Cross Section and Layout Myanmar - Burma

Pagoda or Stupas are solid structures, the layout is usually square or  five sided.

Enshrined in a pagoda are sacred relics or a particular potent  image or figure of the Buddha, scriptures and / or precious items.

The pagoda structure is terraced, three or five times, with a bell shaped top. The terraces of pagodas indicate the slopes of the cosmic mountain Mt. Meru, the abode of Hindu gods. The stupa is a symbol of the Buddha and naturally functions as a protective structure for the relicts.

- The zedi is the rudiment of the original four-square temples.         more about Pagodas

The zedi consists of a pyramidal or polygonal base (panat-chi), with niches (hlaing-gu) for images of the Buddha.
It is represented in all stages of its decrement.

Above the base of the pagoda come tapering courses (pyissagan), after these the bell-shaped body of the upper pagoda (kaunglaung separated by three mouldings (kyo-waing) from the thabeit-hmauk (inverted alms-bowl). Then follow seven heavy bead-rolls (pung kun-hnillon) surmounted by the lotus (kyd-lan, salaung-bon), out of which issues the bulb (ngapyaw-bu, pein-hne-daung).

Several Buddha sculptures and images are in every Myanmar pagoda and temple.

The canopy (umbrella) oft the Myanmar pagoda is a metal construction of graduated bands one above the other, richly embossed and ornamented. To the lower edges of these bands small bells are hung, which have vanes to their clappers to make them tinkle in the wind. This terminates the Myanmar pagoda in a long finial bearing a vane (hngemmana) and at the apex a silver orb studded with, jewels (seimbu).

On lesser zedi a glass ball or bottle caps the finial. The tic is always gilt, the cone generally whitewashed. In wealthy towns the cone of the Paya-dyi is gilt from crown to platform (tamanthalin).

Unlike the ancient temples with their stairs and corridors,  the later zedi - pagoda- is a solid mass of brick and earth, plastered over.

The summit is inaccessible, except by means of scaffolding. Zedi arc commonly spoken of as Paya, in the same way as are the images of the Buddha, for which the distinctive term is sindu. kyaung.

- In addition to the zedi or Myanmar pagodas and temples

there are three other classes of religious edifices the tazaung, wut, and zayat.

All these may be decorated in the palatial style and are mostly of wood. But a public well or a roadside water-stand, the portal of a bridge or a wharf, may likewise be surmounted by the royal pyatthat in virtue of the religious distinction which attaches to every work dedicated to public use by private bounty.

The temple zayat is intended for sojourners in the precincts on duty days. The wut differs from the zayat in having a dais for images of the Buddha. The tazaung is only for the reception of images.

Myanmar Pagoda and Temples
Bagan Sunset Pagoda Panorama
Gubyaukgyi Pagoda Bagan Stone WindowMyanmar Pagoda and Temple Bagan Pagoda Buddha
Bagan Gubyaukgyi Pagoda Stone Window                          Bagan Pagoda Buddha
Bagan Thatbyinnyu TempleMyanmar Pagoda and Temple Bagan Pagoda Golden Dome
Bagan Thatbyinnyu Temple                                                     Bagan Temples & Pagoda golden Dome
Balloons over Bagan
Balloons over Bagan Panorama

Ananda Tempel in the Morning Mist
Ananda Temple in the Morning Mist
Myanmar Temple
Myanmar Temple
at Bagan, the Dhammayangyi is a massive structure and one of the most impressive temple in Bagan, more.
Bagan Ayeyarwady River Boat and Pagoda
Bagan Ayeyarwady River Boat and Pagoda
Myanmar Temples Bagan
Temple Bagan Oxcart and Pagodas
Monk Commuter
Monk Commuter

Myanmar Temples
are a unique showcase of the country, real eye candy, they visible everywhere, from mountain tops to in the river and more.
Myanmar pagodas
Myanmar pagodas

Buddhist Shrines are everywhere in the country as here at the Mount Popa Monastery, more.
Thambuddhe Temple
Thambuddhe Temple

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When visiting the country there are a couple
of must see, this is: Mount Popa, Pindaya Caves,
Kyaiktiyo, Bagan, Thambuddhe Temple at Monywa,
Mandalay, Inle Lake and Yangon. Mount Popa
is in central Myanmar close to Bagan, this is an
extinct volcano a monastery and Buddhist Shrine
was built on the top. To get up to the location at 1500
meters should be included in any Popa trip.

 

 

 

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