Myanmar 4 Bagan pagodas Lawkananda, Seinnyet, Bupaya

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Myanmar!
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Myanmar
Sharing a common border with India, China,
Bangladesh, Laos, and Thailand, Myanmar is about
the size France and England together, one of the
largest countries in Southeast Asia. Its length
is about 2.000 km from the Tenasseri Peninsula in
the south to the north of Himalaya mountain
ranges which border Yunnan, Tibet and India
Official name       Republic of the Union of
MyanmarArea                    676 600 km²
Population           61 millions Capital     
          Nay Pyi Daw since 2005Biggest city   
     Yangon (Almost 6 millions inhabitants)
People and ethnic groups  Out of the 135
different ethnic groups, 68 are
Burmese, 9 Shan, 7 KarenOfficial
language  Burmese (Sinotibetan)Religion 
Theravada Bouddhism (87),
Christians (5), Islam (4)
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Myanmar
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Myanmar
In the second half of the 16th century, the
Toungoo Dynasty (15101752) reunified the
country, and founded the largest empire in the
history of Southeast Asia for a brief period.
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Lawkananda pagoda, on a little hill, overlooking
the Ayeyarwady river
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Adenium obesum (Desert Rose) Common names include
Sabi star, kudu, mock azalea and impala lily
Adenium obesum is a species of flowering plant
native to the Sahel regions, south of the Sahara
(from Mauritania and Senegal to Sudan), and
tropical and subtropical eastern and southern
Africa and Arabia.
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Adenium obesum (Desert Rose).
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Lawkananda pagoda
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The Chinthe is a leogryph (lion-like creature)
that is often seen at the entrances of pagodas
and temples in Burma and other Southeast Asian
countries.
Lawkananda Pagoda (also spelt Lokananda,
literally "joy of the world") is a Buddhist zedi
(stupa) erected on the bank of the Ayeyarwaddy
River, and built during the reign of King
Anawrahta, in 1059. It contains a replica of a
Buddha tooth relic. The tooth relic enshrined in
it was brought from Sri Lanka.
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Irrawaddy River, Burmese Ayeyarwady,  principal
river of Myanmar, running through the centre of
the country.
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Its name is believed to derive from the Sanskrit
term airavati, meaning elephant river
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Myanmars most important commercial waterway,
Ayeyarwady  is about 1,350 miles (2,170 km) long.
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"The shape of the stupa represents the Buddha,
crowned and sitting in meditation posture on a
lion throne. His crown is the top of the spire
his head is the square at the spire's base his
body is the vase shape his legs are the four
steps of the lower terrace and the base is his
throne.
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On 24 May 2003, a bejeweled umbrella (hti) was
hoisted to the top of the pagoda.
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Euphorbia milii (Crown-of-thorns or Christ Plant)
are dotted around everywhere in glazed pots. This
odd plant originates from Madagascar and is
believed to have found its way to the Middle East
before the birth of Christ.
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Crown of Thorns Plant - Euphorbia milii
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The "Seinnyet Sisters the Ama (Elder Sister) a
temple and the Nyima (Younger Sister) a pagoda.
stand together in a brick enclosure. The temple
has entrances on all four sides but the eastern
entrance is the main one.
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Seinnyet Nyima Pagoda was traditionally assigned
to 11th century AD. It is a stupa with three
terraces and bell shaped dome topped by a
beautiful stylized umbrella
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The bell shaped dome is ornamented with moulded
bands and kirttimukha (ogre-head) pendants
between four pedimented niches facing the
cardinal points.
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The Ama (Elder Sister), a temple, has entrances
on all four sides but the eastern entrance is the
main one. The superstructure consists of four
steep receding terraces. Above these terraces
rises a curvilinear spire
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The triple pediments which once framed the
entrances are now much damaged but the stucco
carvings which remain decorative scrolls,
ogre-heads disgorging flowers, bird and animal
figures some of which are mythical hint at the
richness of the original ornamentation. This
stupa and shrine standing side by side are
traditionally ascribed to Queen Seinnyet in the
11th century, although the architecture clearly
points to a period two centuries later.
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Cassia leptophylla - Gold Medallion Tree (Ngu
War) Small tree, fast growing, easy to shape
crown. Beautiful clusters of yellow flowers from
spring through summer and sporadically in fall
and winter. Very popular in Southern landscapes.
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Cassia leptophylla - Gold Medallion Tree (Ngu War)
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Many damaged pagodas underwent restorations in
the 1990s by the military government, which
sought to make Bagan an international tourist
destination. However, the restoration efforts
instead drew widespread condemnation from art
historians and preservationists worldwide.
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Critics are aghast that the restorations paid
little attention to original architectural
styles, and used modern materials, and that the
government has also established a golf course, a
paved highway, and built a 61-meter (200-foot)
watchtower. Although the government believed that
the ancient capital's hundreds of (unrestored)
temples and large corpus of stone inscriptions
were more than sufficient to win the designation
of UNESCO World Heritage Site, the city has not
been so designated, allegedly mainly on account
of the restorations. An application for World
Heritage status was rejected in the mid-1990s
because of a highway laid across the zone to
welcome the visiting Indonesian president,
Suharto.
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Bupaya Pagoda
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Bupaya Pagoda is a notable pagoda at a bend on
the right bank of the Ayeyarwady River. The small
pagoda, which has a bulbous shaped dome, is
widely believed to have been built by the third
King of Pagan, Pyusawhti who ruled from 168 to
243 AD. It is one of the most notable shrines
among the thousands of new or ruined Pagodas in
Pagan.
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The original pagoda was completely destroyed in
the 1975 earthquake. As result of this
earthquake, the bulbous pagoda broke into pieces
and fell into the river. It was, however, fully
reconstructed using modern materials, with lesser
adherence to the original design. Subsequently it
was built as a gilded superstructure.
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