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    Burma, also known as Myanmar, is located in Southeast Asia. It is bounded by China, Bangladesh, India, Laos and Thailand. The main rivers are the Irrawaddy, Salween and Sittaung. The climate is tropical monsoon with hot and rainy seasons. Buddhism is the dominant religion, practiced by 88% of the population. Burmese architecture is known for its pagodas, stupas and temples. Some important pilgrimage sites include the ancient city of Bagan with over 2,000 pagodas and temples, Mahamuni Pagoda housing a sacred Buddha statue, Kyaiktiyo Pagoda built on a granite rock, and Shwedagon Pagoda in

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    Burma, also known as Myanmar, is located in Southeast Asia. It is bounded by China, Bangladesh, India, Laos and Thailand. The main rivers are the Irrawaddy, Salween and Sittaung. The climate is tropical monsoon with hot and rainy seasons. Buddhism is the dominant religion, practiced by 88% of the population. Burmese architecture is known for its pagodas, stupas and temples. Some important pilgrimage sites include the ancient city of Bagan with over 2,000 pagodas and temples, Mahamuni Pagoda housing a sacred Buddha statue, Kyaiktiyo Pagoda built on a granite rock, and Shwedagon Pagoda in

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    Burma, also known as Myanmar, is located in Southeast Asia. It is bounded by China, Bangladesh, India, Laos and Thailand. The main rivers are the Irrawaddy, Salween and Sittaung. The climate is tropical monsoon with hot and rainy seasons. Buddhism is the dominant religion, practiced by 88% of the population. Burmese architecture is known for its pagodas, stupas and temples. Some important pilgrimage sites include the ancient city of Bagan with over 2,000 pagodas and temples, Mahamuni Pagoda housing a sacred Buddha statue, Kyaiktiyo Pagoda built on a granite rock, and Shwedagon Pagoda in

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    Burma-Myanmar

    (Land of the Golden Pagodas)


    Geography
    Geography:
     Is a sovereign state in South East Asia
    Bounded on the:
     North- China
     Northwest- Bangladesh and India,
     Southeast- Laos and Thailand.
     forms an uninterrupted coastline of 1,930 km (1,200 miles) along the Bay of Bengal and
    the Andaman Sea.
     Myanmar is 676,578 square kilometres in size.
     Its capital city is Naypyidaw and its largest city and former capital city is Yangon (Rangoon).
    Myanmar's three river systems:

     Irrawaddy- Myanmar's longest


    river
    Salween (Thanlwin)
     Sittaung
    Climate
    Climate:
     Most of Myanmar has a tropical monsoon climate with three seasons:
     Cool – November to February
     Hot – March to May
     Rainy – June to October is the monsoon season, with high rainfall. From June
    to August, rainfall can be constant for long periods of time, particularly on
    the Bay of Bengal coast and in Yangon and the Irrawaddy Delta.
    Religion
    Buddhism

     practiced by 88% of the country's


    population.
     Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon -
    the most revered pagoda in
    Myanmar
     Payathonzu Temple is built in
    the Mon style.
    Christianity

     practised by 6.2% of the


    population
     first Christians in the country were
    Portuguese soldiers and a few
    traders
     Christians were the fastest growing
    religious group in Burma for the
    last 3 decades.
     Hinduism
     Judaism
     Islam
    Geological
    Geological

     Timber/Wood- dominant building


    material.
     Bamboo
     traditional Burmese urban home is
    raised on four posts and has a
    concrete base.
    Political
    BURMESE ARCHITECTURE (land of pagodas)

     There are essentially three kinds of Buddhist structures:


     1) stupas, bell-shaped structures that contain a holy relic or scripture;
     2) temples, place of worship somewhat similar to a church; and
     3) monasteries, which contain living quarters and meditation cells for monks.
     Stupas are solid structures that typically cannot be entered and were
    constructed to contain sacred Buddhist relics that are hidden from
    view (and vandals) in containers buried at their core or in the walls
     Temples have an open interior that may be entered and in which are
    displayed one or more cult images as a focus for worship
     monastery that can be either a one-room building or a vast complex
    of buildings
    pagoda
     Burma is famous for its large and graceful pagodas. A pagoda. in Southeast Asia. is
    cone-shaped monumental structure built in memory of Buddha. But in the Far East a
    pagoda is a tower-like, multistoried structure of stone, brick. or wood.
     The finial, or decorative crowning ornament of the stupa, became more elongated and
    cylindrical until the stupa's upper portion took on an attenuated, tower-like
    appearance.
    4 important Burmese pilgrimage site

     Bagan (an ancient capital)


     Mahamunini pagoda
     Kyaiktiyo pagoda
     Shewedagon pagoda
    Bagan (pagan)
    An ancient capital
     Central Burma situated on the left
    bank of the ayeyarwaddy river and
    approximately (145 km) south east
    mandalay
     is an ancient city located in
    the Mandalay Region of Myanmar .
     the city was the capital of
    the Kingdom of Pagan
    9th to 13th centuries
     Bagan was founded in the second
    century AD, and fortified in 849 AD
    by King Pyinbya
     Bagan's rulers and their wealthy
    subjects constructed over 10,000
    religious monuments
    (approximately 1000 stupas,
    10,000 small temples and 3000
    monasteries) in an area of 104
    square kilometres (40 sq mi) in the
    Bagan plains.
     remains of over 2200 temples and
    pagodas still survive to the present
    day.
    14th to 19th centuries
     most prominent temples out of the thousands such as the Ananda, the Shwezigon, the Sulamani,
    the Htilominlo, the Dhammayazika

    ANANDA SHEZIGON
    SULAMANI HTILIMINLO

    DHAMAYAZIKA
    BUILDING

     ZEDI (Burmese stupa or pagoda)


    -Bell shaped( and often solid) brick structure set on a
    square or octagonal base: it usually rises to a gently
    tapering peak gilded metal and jeweled finial topped
    with a sacred parasol-shaped decoration.
     Burmese temple or pagoda (paya or phato) LAWKANANDA
    -Employed both barrel and vaults and pointed arches
     hpongyui kyaung- monastries
    MAHAMUNI
    PAGODA, MANDALAY,
    MYANMAR
     The Mahamuni Buddha
    image
     (literal meaning: The
    Great Sage) is deified in
    this temple, and originally
    came from Arakan.
     Ancient tradition refers to
    only five likenesses of the
    Buddha, made during his
    lifetime, one is mahamuni
    Buddha image.
     BUDDHA 4.0 M HIGH
     STATUE IS MADE WITH BRONZE
     WEIGHING 6.5 TONS
     The Mahamuni Buddha image is housed in a small
    chamber, seated on a throne in a divine posture
    known as the Bhumisparsa Mudra.
     The image is crowned, bejewelled
    with diamonds, rubies and sapphires.
     Gold leaves are regularly applied to the face of
    the Mahamuni Buddha by male devotees.
    Consequent to the frequent application of gold
    leaves
     initiated the ritual of daily face
    washing of the deity at dawn. This
    ritual commences every morning at 4
    am or 4:30 am when monks wash the
    face and brush the teeth of the
    Buddha image
     Uposotha day- orange Stoll is placed
    around its shoulders by the presiding
    monk
    Kyaiktiyo Pagoda
    MONSTATE BURMA
     also known as Golden Rock
     It is a small pagoda (7.3 metres
    (24 ft)) built on the top of a granite
    boulder covered with gold leaves
    pasted on by devotees.\
     the word 'kyaik' means "pagoda" and
    'yo' means "to carry on the hermit's
    head". The word 'ithi' means "hermit".
    Thus, 'Kyaik-htiyo' means "pagoda upon
    a hermit's head".
    Legend

     The legend associated with the pagoda is that


    the Buddha, on one of his many visits, gave a
    strand of his hair to Taik Tha, a hermit
    Shwedagon Pagoda
     Temple complex with shwedagon pagoda located at center
     Shwe means gold and dagon former name of yangon
     Known as great dragon pagoda or golden pagoda
     it is believed to contain relics of the four previous Buddhas of the
    present kalpa. These relics include the staff of Kakusandha, the
    water filter of Koṇāgamana, a piece of the robe of Kassapa, and
    eight strands of hair from the head of Gautama.
     The top of the golden stupa is tipped with 5,448 diamonds 2, 317
    rubies and crowned with a single diamond weighing 76 carats
    history

     pagoda was built by the Mon people between


    the 6th and 10th centuries CE.[2] However,
    according to legend, the Shwedagon Pagoda
    was constructed more than 2,600 years ago,
    which would make it the oldest Buddhist stupa
    in the world
    Replicas

     Uppatasanti Pagoda—located in naypyidaw, the


    capital of Myanmar—is a replica of Shwedagon
    Pagoda. Completed in 2009,
     Another replica of Shwedagon Pagoda, 46.8 m
    (154 ft) in height, was constructed at Lumbini
    Natural Park in berastagi, North
    Sumatra, Indonesia.
     Global Vipassana Pagoda, 29 m (95 ft) high and
    opened in 2009, located in Mumbai, India [18]

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