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Myanmar is a
country full of Monasteries.
One with a
great history is the Shwe Kyaung (the
Golden Monastery) in
Mandalay was
built by the last Myanmar King Thibaw
(1878-1885) in the year 1880.
The monastery
is splendid decorated with artistic
woodcarving both inside and outside with
carved panels enclosing a verandah running
along the whole platform.
The walls of the
monastery are also carved with more panels
and there are facias between the
tiered receding roofs.
Bright and gorgeous
arches end in slender finials that crown the
gables.
These gables held the bargeboards in the same motif
in a smaller scale.
Inside the
monastery are figures of celestial gods such
as Indra guarding the doors and the Birth
Stories of Lord
Buddha are depicted thereof.
The whole array of figures in the monastery
is interwoven into intricate and picturesque
tapestry by floral arbesques.
Out of 150 timber posts,
54 are decorated with Naya Dragon as buttresses.
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The Shwe In Bin
Monastery.
In the year
1815, master craftsmen were commissioned to
construct a very enormous, exquisite and
elegant wooden
monastery by
two wealthy Chinese jade merchant. The wooden monastery
is exceedingly ornamented with elaborate
wood-carvings and wood-work along the
balustrades and roof cornices and horizontal
moldings in relief. It is
just west of Thakawun monastery and south of 35th Street. Just as Khmers sometimes
copied and translated wood-carvings into stone,
Myanmar translated some masonry elements into wood.
 
 
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