The Botataung Pagoda is an illustration that splendidly exhibits that even most repulsive occasions, for example, an immediate bomb hit (exceptionally unpalatable, wouldn't you agree?) can end up being an aid. How? Why? The responses to this you will get a view lines assist into the article.
Situated In Yangon, Burma's previous capital Rangoon, are the three first pagodas of what is these days called Myanmar. They were worked by the Mon and the first of these three pagodas is the grand Shwedagon Pagoda, Burma's best known and most went to pagoda. The Shwedagon Pagoda was trailed by the Botataung Pagoda and the Sule Pagoda. The histories of these three antiquated pagodas start at some point in the sixth century B.C.This was quite a while before the principal Burman/Bamar showed up around there.
Today I will visit the Botataung Pagoda, which is apparently Burma's second most seasoned pagoda and you are generously welcomed to go with me.
Here we are currently, before the Botataung Pagoda at Botataung Pagoda Road in Yangon, the previous Rangoon. To our privilege is the Strand Road from which we have come and to one side is the Yangon River its banks fixed with breakwaters (the nearest is the Botataung pier), wharfs, stockrooms, and so forth.
This current pagoda's history goes like the Shwedagon Pagoda's and Sule Pagoda has returned to the early circumstances of the Mon kingdoms; the seasons of the little angling town Okkala (the later Dagon), Mon ruler Okkalapa and the trader siblings Tapussa and Bhallika. I am certain that nobody who has so far expounded on this pagoda can reasonably claim to know when precisely the Botataung Pagoda was worked, by whom precisely it was assembled and why precisely this spot was picked as area. Much too little is known keeping in mind the end goal to uncover reality. It is all theory what clarifies that there are different legends and stories about the inceptions and beginning of the Botataung Pagoda available for use. Some of them appear to be more dependable than others yet this does not really imply that they are valid. As usual, the responses to the a.m. questions (when, who, why) will in all probability remain were they are; holed up behind the a drape of myth and legends. Perhaps that is better since realities are by a wide margin not as fascinating as legends. Here is the tale of the Botataung Pagoda to the extent it is known to me.
Approximately 2.300 years prior a mission of 8 priests from India came to Dagon and brought a few relics (one hair and two body relics) of Gautama Buddha with them. They were gotten by the Mon in stupendous style and a watch of respect involving 1000 (tataung) military officers (Bos) escorted the priests with the relics to where the relics were cherished and the Botataung Pagoda constructed. This is basically all that is thought about the early history of the pagoda. At that point the shade closes and nothing further is thought about what occurred in the timeframe between the finish of the Botataung Pagoda and the year 1943. It is to be assumed that nothing occurred past the standard thing, which is that individuals came to venerate and perform reverential acts.
On 08 November 1943, be that as it may, this progressions drastically and the drapery before the Botataung Pagoda opens again with a forceful blast; bhooommm! After the smoke has scattered and the clean has settled only rubble is left of the old Botataung Pagoda. What has happened is that amid an air attack of the RAF went for the wharves in coordinate neighborhood of the pagoda the Botataung Pagoda succumbed to an immediate bomb hit.
However deplorable it might be that the old (unique?) Botataung Pagoda was wrecked the reality remains that the discoveries made throughout the evacuation of the flotsam and jetsam and the accompanying unearthings have doubtlessly more than made up for the loss of the old stupa structure. What most likely could never have been found without the pagoda's being demolished by the bomb was an old relic chamber over which the stupa had been constructed. As per records the relic chamber contained a brilliant coffin molded like a stupa that, thus, contained a little brilliant pagoda on a silver stand lodging the hair and the two body relics of Gautama Buddha, countless stones, somewhere in the range of 700 gold, silver, metal, marble and stone Buddha statues, various smaller than normal pagodas, stupas, places of worship and pagoda htis of different sizes, and countless cotta plaques. Some of these plaques have as it is said verifiably noteworthy engravings in Pali and Mon dialect that do past all uncertainty demonstrate that it was the Mon who manufactured this lovely pagoda. What else these engravings say I don't have the foggiest idea. Perhaps they could reveal to us more about the beginning and beginning of the Botataung Pagoda when it was known as Kyaik-de-att in Mon dialect.
Situated In Yangon, Burma's previous capital Rangoon, are the three first pagodas of what is these days called Myanmar. They were worked by the Mon and the first of these three pagodas is the grand Shwedagon Pagoda, Burma's best known and most went to pagoda. The Shwedagon Pagoda was trailed by the Botataung Pagoda and the Sule Pagoda. The histories of these three antiquated pagodas start at some point in the sixth century B.C.This was quite a while before the principal Burman/Bamar showed up around there.
Today I will visit the Botataung Pagoda, which is apparently Burma's second most seasoned pagoda and you are generously welcomed to go with me.
Here we are currently, before the Botataung Pagoda at Botataung Pagoda Road in Yangon, the previous Rangoon. To our privilege is the Strand Road from which we have come and to one side is the Yangon River its banks fixed with breakwaters (the nearest is the Botataung pier), wharfs, stockrooms, and so forth.
This current pagoda's history goes like the Shwedagon Pagoda's and Sule Pagoda has returned to the early circumstances of the Mon kingdoms; the seasons of the little angling town Okkala (the later Dagon), Mon ruler Okkalapa and the trader siblings Tapussa and Bhallika. I am certain that nobody who has so far expounded on this pagoda can reasonably claim to know when precisely the Botataung Pagoda was worked, by whom precisely it was assembled and why precisely this spot was picked as area. Much too little is known keeping in mind the end goal to uncover reality. It is all theory what clarifies that there are different legends and stories about the inceptions and beginning of the Botataung Pagoda available for use. Some of them appear to be more dependable than others yet this does not really imply that they are valid. As usual, the responses to the a.m. questions (when, who, why) will in all probability remain were they are; holed up behind the a drape of myth and legends. Perhaps that is better since realities are by a wide margin not as fascinating as legends. Here is the tale of the Botataung Pagoda to the extent it is known to me.
Approximately 2.300 years prior a mission of 8 priests from India came to Dagon and brought a few relics (one hair and two body relics) of Gautama Buddha with them. They were gotten by the Mon in stupendous style and a watch of respect involving 1000 (tataung) military officers (Bos) escorted the priests with the relics to where the relics were cherished and the Botataung Pagoda constructed. This is basically all that is thought about the early history of the pagoda. At that point the shade closes and nothing further is thought about what occurred in the timeframe between the finish of the Botataung Pagoda and the year 1943. It is to be assumed that nothing occurred past the standard thing, which is that individuals came to venerate and perform reverential acts.
On 08 November 1943, be that as it may, this progressions drastically and the drapery before the Botataung Pagoda opens again with a forceful blast; bhooommm! After the smoke has scattered and the clean has settled only rubble is left of the old Botataung Pagoda. What has happened is that amid an air attack of the RAF went for the wharves in coordinate neighborhood of the pagoda the Botataung Pagoda succumbed to an immediate bomb hit.
However deplorable it might be that the old (unique?) Botataung Pagoda was wrecked the reality remains that the discoveries made throughout the evacuation of the flotsam and jetsam and the accompanying unearthings have doubtlessly more than made up for the loss of the old stupa structure. What most likely could never have been found without the pagoda's being demolished by the bomb was an old relic chamber over which the stupa had been constructed. As per records the relic chamber contained a brilliant coffin molded like a stupa that, thus, contained a little brilliant pagoda on a silver stand lodging the hair and the two body relics of Gautama Buddha, countless stones, somewhere in the range of 700 gold, silver, metal, marble and stone Buddha statues, various smaller than normal pagodas, stupas, places of worship and pagoda htis of different sizes, and countless cotta plaques. Some of these plaques have as it is said verifiably noteworthy engravings in Pali and Mon dialect that do past all uncertainty demonstrate that it was the Mon who manufactured this lovely pagoda. What else these engravings say I don't have the foggiest idea. Perhaps they could reveal to us more about the beginning and beginning of the Botataung Pagoda when it was known as Kyaik-de-att in Mon dialect.
The new Botataung Pagoda stupa, the one remaining behind the divider before us, is said to be worked in the style of the one that was obliterated. In any case, three noteworthy changes were made to the reproduced stupa. One of them is that this pagoda stupa is made of cement (and not block or stone), the other one that the stupa is empty (and not strong like the first one) and the third one that an extensive piece of the fortunes found is, including the Buddha hair relic, now showed inside the stupa so everybody can see them. The other piece of the fortune, its most important piece, for example, the two Buddha body relics and valuable stones are bolted away and can't be seen by the general population.
In 1960 another old relic was added to the Botataung Pagoda treasures. This is said to be a tooth of Gautama Buddha. The one lord Alaung Sithu of Pagan neglected to get from the previous Nan-chao kingdom, now China's Yunnan Province, in 1115 A.D. The Buddha relic was introduced to the Botataung Pagoda by the Chinese government. This tooth, as well, is bolted away. In 1981 the Botataung Pagoda got yet another fortune, lord Mindon's Royal Palace Buddha Bronze Image. More to this later.
The development work for the new pagoda began the very day Burma picked up autonomy, on 04 January 1948. The divider to one side of the passage is secured by an immense naga lying over it with her long body extended over the whole lengths of the divider. The naga's head is raised and the mouth is open. Prepared to assault with regards to the pagoda. Oooooh, so alarming. The same over yonder with the divider left to the passage.
Alright, we go first into the little working before the mass of the pagoda compound to one side of the fundamental passage. There we need to pay our extra charge and to leave our shoes. We have entered the pagoda compound now and before us is the passageway to the fundamental stupa.
The pagoda stage is spread over an aggregate territory of somewhere in the range of 221.830 square feet/20.608 square meter and the Botataung pagoda contains the fundamental stupa and a sum of 18 structures encompassing the stupa. The structures are lodging numerous Buddha statues of different sizes, periods and in various mudras.
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