Botataung Pagoda
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The Botataung Pagoda ( Burmese ဗိုလ်တထောင် ဘုရား , pronounced: bòtətʰàʊɴ pʰəjá, German: 1000 officers , also Kyaik-de-att-Pagoda ) is a Buddhist temple complex in Yangon in Myanmar .
history
Legend has it that 1000 officers formed a trellis when a ship from India with Buddha relics landed at the site of the pagoda more than 2000 years ago. The first pagoda at this point was built by the Mon around 2500 years ago, around the same time as the Shwedagon Pagoda .
During the Second World War, a Royal Air Force bomb hit the pagoda and completely destroyed it. Immediately after Myanmar gained independence in 1948, the rebuilding of the pagoda began.
description
Unlike most other stupas in Myanmar, the main stupa is hollow inside and lined with glass mosaics. In the innermost sanctuary, a hair of the Buddha is kept in a golden box.
In the temple precinct there is a small pond with numerous turtles and a shrine for the nats . Right next door, believers have the opportunity to buy food for the turtles and offerings for the nats, so that they can do a good deed according to their beliefs.
gallery
Main stupa 1976
Temple bell 1976
Temple precinct
Turtle pond
Turtles
Weekday altar
Glass mosaics
Glass mosaic
Devotion
altar
Hair reliquary shrine
Natschrein
Sacrifice for nats
Stand with offerings
literature
- Johanna Dittmar: Thailand and Burma. Temples and royal cities between the Mekong and the Indian Ocean (= DuMont documents. Art travel guide. ). 3. Edition. DuMont, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7701-1206-7 , p. 329.
- Wilhelm Klein: Burma (= Apa Guides. ). Nelles, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-88618-991-0 , p. 142.
- Andrea Markand, Markus Markand, Martin H. Petrich, Volker Klinkmüller: Myanmar. (Burma) (= Stefan Loose Travel Manuals. ). 2nd completely revised edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7701-6147-5 , p. 139.
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Coordinates: 16 ° 46 ′ 7 ″ N , 96 ° 10 ′ 19 ″ E