Living TRAVEL - BURMA 1981

Mandalay - More Pagodas and Monasteries
 

The Kuthodaw Pagoda complex
  


Surrounding the pagoda spire can be seen some of the 729 marble slabs
which together contain the full works of the Buddhist canon Tripitaka
 

 
Rows and rows of the pages of the "book" - and below
 

 

One of the "pages"
 
The bell and dome of Kuthodaw
 

Mandalay Hill Pagoda - Kyauktawgyi
 

 

The impressive lions guarding the entrance to the pagoda
 

This giant Lawka Chanthar Arbayar Laba Muni Buddha at Kyauktawgyi is carved from one block of marble

  
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