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' Golden Dagon Pagoda '), and also known as the Great Dagon Pagoda and the Golden Pagoda, is a gilded stupa located in Yangon, Myanmar. The Shwedagon is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar, as it is believed to contain relics of the four previous Buddhas of the present kalpa .
This golden pagoda of Shakyamuni Buddha was built in the twelfth century by King Bhaskar Varman. Inside the upper storey of the pagoda is the golden image and a large prayer wheel. [3] According to legend Hiranya Varna Mahavihar was built at a location where a rat chases a cat.
According to the pagoda's historical inscription written in both Burmese and Pa'O languages, the Alantaya Sayadaw led the formation of the Ten Paramis group, which successively constructed a golden stupa in 1952, followed by a renovation to a stupa measuring 100 inches in 1954, a stupa of 100 feet in 1957, a stupa of 100 cubits in 1958, and a stupa of 180 cubits in 1959.
The pagoda was built in 1952 by U Nu in preparation for the Sixth Buddhist Council that he held from 1954 to 1956. The pagoda measures 111 feet (34 m) high and is also 111 feet (34 m) around the base. [1] The pagoda is located approximately 11 km north of Yangon, a little past the Inya Lake Hotel.
The boulder, which gleams golden and is popularly known as the Golden Rock, and on which the small Kyaiktiyo Pagoda has been built, is about 25 feet (7.6 m) in height and has a circumference of 50 feet (15 m). The Pagoda above the rock is about 7.3 metres (24 ft) in height.
An account from ancient histories of the building of the Pagoda states that the Buddhist king Sihadipa gave one of his ministers a sacred hair from the Buddha's head and two body relics and this minister, renowned for his goodness and faith, consulted a famous religious leader and, on his advice, chose the Botataung Mount on the bank of Yangon ...
The Five Pagoda Temple (Chinese: 五 塔 寺; pinyin: Wǔ Tǎ Sì), formally known as the "Temple of the Great Righteous Awakening" (traditional Chinese: 大 真 覺 寺; simplified Chinese: 大 真 觉 寺; pinyin: Dà Zhēnjué Sì) or "Zhenjue Temple" (Chinese: 真 觉 寺; Chinese: 真 覺 寺; pinyin: Zhēnjué Sì) for short, is a Ming dynasty Buddhist temple located in Haidian District ...
The Golden Pagoda of Namsai, also known as Kongmu Kham, in the Tai-Khamti language, is a Burmese-style Buddhist temple that was opened in 2010. It is located on a 20 hectares (49 acres) complex in Namsai District of Arunachal Pradesh, India and at a distance of 68 km (42 mi) from the nearest railway station Tinsukia, Assam.