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Monastery
Myanmar,
information
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monastery,
monk
monastery,
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monastery,
Burma,
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monastery,
nun
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Buddhist
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Myanmar is a
country full of Monasteries.
One with a
great golden Myanmar 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 arabesques.
Out of 150 timber posts,
54 are decorated with Naya Dragon as buttresses.
Myanmar Monasteries usually have
been and are today in the form of
light wood buildings. Others are
brick built, like the Pitakat-Taik
at Bagan Myanmar , the library for
the sacred Texts in the 17th 18th
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The numerous buildings and
monastery complex form a
remarkable side of the Bagan
architecture. A monastery is not
always rich or active enough to
build a temple, sometimes it is just
a house for Monks. A simple
monastery needs only a house to
exist.
The Myanmar monks live here
and if the wealth and importance of
the monastery is increasing other
buildings are added, like stupas,
pagodas, temples, libraries and so
on . A better monastery always has
its own wells and its pond and
stands in a shadow grove. |
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