Contemplating…
Location
Mandalay’s most sacred Buddha image — continuously anointed with gold leaf by devotees.
A living national pilgrimage focus of Upper Myanmar, complementary to Yangon’s Shwedagon.
Pilgrimage circuits that include this place.
Theravada
From Yangon’s golden Shwedagon to Bagan’s temple plain and Mandalay’s Mahamuni — Myanmar’s great Theravada axis.
Southeast Asia
