Mingun Pagoda
The Mingun Pagoda ( Burmese မင်းကွန်း ပုထိုးတော်ကြီး ; BGN / PCGN : mingun-budodawkyi), also called Mantara Gyi Pagoda , in the village of Mingun is a Buddhist sanctuary in central Burma north of Mandalay on Ayeyarwady .
King Bodawpaya intended to build the largest pagoda in the world with a height of 152 m. It was supposed to be a demonstration of his power and serve as a reliquary for a tooth of the Buddha that the Emperor of China had sent him along with three of his granddaughters, who were supposed to be his wives.
In 1790, thousands of laborers began construction, which was never completed and was finally stopped when Bodawpaya died in 1819. Only the base of the pagoda, 72 m long and 50 m high, was built. The huge brick building was badly damaged in the earthquake of 1838, as were two huge chinthes , the ruins of which can be admired on the river bank in front of the pagoda. The five-meter-high Pondaw Pagoda, 320 meters southeast, shows what the Mingun Pagoda should look like .
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literature
- Wilhelm Klein: Apa Guide Burma. 1st edition. Nelles Verlag, Munich 1982, p. 202ff.
- Markand, Petrich, Klinkmüller: Myanmar. 2nd Edition. Stefan Loose Travel Handbooks, Berlin 2006, p. 316ff.
- Johanna Dittmar: Thailand and Burma. 3. Edition. DuMont, Cologne 1984, p. 324.
- Markus Borr, Heike Hoppstädter-Borr: Burma, Burma, Myanmar. 1st edition. BOD, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8391-0614-3 , p. 136.
Coordinates: 22 ° 3 ′ 3 ″ N , 96 ° 1 ′ 2 ″ E