Kyauktawgyi Buddha
Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 9:58AM
[chuck] in Dharma, Kyauktawgyi pagoda, Myanmar, Yangon

The Kyauktawgi Pagoda in Yangon contains a colossal statue of the Buddha, 37 feet tall and 24 feet wide. The statue was carved from a single piece of white marble, floated on a raft down the Ayeyarwady River (see Confluence of the Ayeyarwady) to Yangon from Mandalay Division. [NOTE: Thanks to U Saw Htun for showing this to me].

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