The Sule Pagoda at Sule Pagoda Road in Yangon, the previous Rangoon, is one of the initial three pagodas that were worked by the Mon in what is presently Burma (well, Myanmar as it is called since 1989). To be exact, the Sule Pagoda is the third one, worked after the Shwedagon Pagoda and Botataung Pagoda.
Today I go again to visit the Sule. I extremely jump at the chance to invest energy in this pagoda since it has an exceptionally unique mood. On the off chance that you get a kick out of the chance to go with me I will be extremely satisfied.
We have quite recently paid our entrance charge and entered the Sule Pagoda through its southern passage. A fast check out demonstrates that the columns supporting the principal floor some portion of the external structures are from platform to capital enriched with glass mosaic, that the upper parts of the dividers are improved with Jatakas (scenes from Gautama Buddha's life) and in the wake of having climbed a short flight of stairs we find before us a sanctuary with 3 huge 'neon-Buddhas' behind glass entryways. I generally discover it to some degree abnormal to see an old Buddha statue joined with an advanced neon radiance yet then there is no representing taste.
Presently we turn left and are remaining on the moderately limit inward roundabout walkway running between the brilliant fundamental stupa on our right side and the encompassing structures to one side. Here in the core of the Sule Pagoda as well as Yangon City we and the fundamental stupa are totally segregated from the Sule's occupied and uproarious outer condition. We have entered an alternate world. This is a desert garden of peace and peacefulness in the midst of the buzzing about of the core of the city with an interminable stream of autos streaming around it.
The British made the Sule Pagoda the focal point of the coarseness design they used to fabricated British Colonial Rangoon. We are at 0 mile here on the grounds that starting here on outwards the miles are estimated. Mingaladon airplane terminal, for instance, is found 10 miles from here.
The Sule Pagoda has go through a nonstop improvement process particularly amid the most recent 120 years. It created from a moderately straightforward single stupa that was the most astounding working here encompassed by parks and just a couple of structures to what it is presently. This pagoda is unique in relation to different pagodas. It is littler, has a distinctively formed stupa, can likewise be entered at first floor level (utilizing one of the two person on foot connects) and has what I get a kick out of the chance to call a nearly town like character and climate with the brilliant primary stupa in the inside encompassed by other littler sanctuaries and the shops in the external ring of structures. Others may see that contrastingly however this is the way I see it; a town like climate.
The stupa is 157 feet/48 meters high and the at the base octagonal state of the stupa abandons changing into a round shape straight up to the hti. When you take a gander at it intently you will see that even the moldings (phaung yits), the Lotus position of authority (1 push down-turned lotus petals, kya mhauk, and 1 push up-turned lotus petals, kya lan) and the banana butt (nga pyaw bu) are not round but rather marginally octagonal.
Presently there is a young woman coming. She will solicit us to get some from the sparrows she has in her confine to give them a chance to free for favorable luck. Give us a chance to do it. Yet, be watchful. On the off chance that you grasp them too solidly they are pecking. Take 3 flying creatures. It costs 1.000 Kyats (US 1) just, will make her and the feathered creatures glad and who knows perhaps it will truly bring us good fortunes. Good fortunes is something nobody can get enough of. What's more, in the event that we don't know how fortunate we will be later on we can solicit one from the numerous diviners here. Take a gander at the shops; there are palmists, numerologists, stargazer, and so on. At the Sule Pagoda and around the pagoda are a greater amount of them than at some other pagoda in Yangon.
Alright, in the wake of having set a few sparrows free for favorable luck we begin our Sule Pagoda walk. While we are strolling clockwise I will give you some more data on the pagoda, let us go.
With the historical backdrop of the Sule Pagoda's beginning it is as it is with the majority of alternate pagodas, it is covered in myth and legend. Diverse sources give distinctive records. From most far-fetched to more averse to more probable the entire range is secured. Everybody tries to make its best because of their own advantages.
A portion of the legends available for use have started from Burmans long after the Sule Pagoda was assembled. Issue with that will be that there was no Burman in the zone that is these days called Myanmar at the time the Shwedagon Pagoda, the Botataung Pagoda and the Sule Pagoda were manufactured on the grounds that the main Burmans came over 1.000 years after the fact. In this manner, it is fitting to treat all endeavors at clarification, for example, 'Sule is gotten from the Burmese word Su-Wei (meeting)' with respect to the Burmans with alert. At the point when the Sule Pagoda was worked by the Mon and as long as Dagon was a piece of Mon kingdoms the pagoda was referred to in Mon dialect as 'Kyaik Kathoke' (which means as much as 'Pagoda of the Sacred Hair Relic') or 'Kyaik Sura'.
Incidentally, lord Anawrahta of the kingdom of Pagan (Bagan) that is otherwise called the main Burmese kingdom was not a Burman but rather a Pyu. He was the child of Pyu ruler Kunhsaw Kaunghpyu (991 A.D. to 1013 A.D.) And the Pyus, as well, were in what is these days called Myanmar long time before the Burmans. As a matter of fact it was the Pyu who established the kingdom of Pagan (Pyu King Thamudarit 107 A.D.- 152 A.D.) and ruler Anawrahta (1044 A.D. to 1077 A.D.) proceeded with a procedure that was at that point get under way. In light of this it is defended to state that there is dependably a specific requirement for basic addressing what concerns Burmese historiography.
In any case, in my endeavor to toss some light on the inceptions of the Sule Pagoda I believe that there is very some reality in the story that is connecting the Indian Buddhist bhikkhus (priests) Maha Thera Sona and Uttara to the appearing of the Sule Pagoda. Here is the story.
Around 230 B.C. the Bhikkhus (priests) Maha Thera Sona and Uttara were sent by ruler Asoka from India to Thaton to show Buddhism in 'The Golden Land' Suvarnabhumi (Mon kingdom). The story keeps saying that Sona and Uttara brought a hair relic of Gautama Buddha with them and were given authorization by King Dhamma Palla of Thaton to erect a holy place for the hair south of the Shwedagon Pagoda. This is the start of the historical backdrop of the Sule Pagoda. In spite of the fact that it is all legend I am emphatically restricted to the possibility that the Sule Pagoda is more seasoned than the Shwedagon Pagoda in light of the fact that the Sule was worked at the place were as legend has it the Sule nat was abiding. I trust that the Sule was constructed at some point around 230 A.D. Whatever else would be totally strange even against the background of legends and myths.
The association between the Shwedagon Pagoda and the Sule Pagoda is as per legend that the nat who gave the choosing data as to where the relics of the three Buddhas that went before Gautama Buddha were cherished at the Singuttara Hill originated from the Sule nat. Legend additionally says that the Sule nat has lived here were the Sule Pagoda is. In any case, to state that in light of this the Sule Pagoda must have just existed around then is as I would see it an absolutely underhanded suspicion.
Alright, while we have been strolling we have seen some littler stupas, places of worship and littler ringers. A portion of the hallowed places contain Weekday or Birthday Buddhas. There are 8 of them for Wednesday has 2 Birthday Buddhas. Why? Since Wednesday is part into two parts; Wednesday morning (12:00 AM to 12:00 twelve) and Wednesday evening 12:00 twelve to 12:00 PM). Wednesday morning conceived are elephant with tusks and Wednesday evening conceived are elephant without tusks (Rahu).
We have now finished our stroll around the Sule Pagoda fundamental stupa and touched base back at the southern passageway were we began. We have seen sanctums with other Buddha statues, the Sule Pagoda gatekeeper Bo Gyi and the two Buddha Footprint.
I have appreciated your conversation and expectation that we will meet once more.
Incidentally, some Sule Pagoda pictures you can find in my Professional Photos. They will help you to show signs of improvement thought of what the Sule Pagoda resembles.
I am German by birth yet am living since 25 years in Burma/Myanmar and know the nation, its kin, its way of life and its history exceptionally well. This has made me an expert on Burma. In the wake of resigning in 2012 I turned author. Kindly do likewise observe my Professional Photos and my profile.
Today I go again to visit the Sule. I extremely jump at the chance to invest energy in this pagoda since it has an exceptionally unique mood. On the off chance that you get a kick out of the chance to go with me I will be extremely satisfied.
We have quite recently paid our entrance charge and entered the Sule Pagoda through its southern passage. A fast check out demonstrates that the columns supporting the principal floor some portion of the external structures are from platform to capital enriched with glass mosaic, that the upper parts of the dividers are improved with Jatakas (scenes from Gautama Buddha's life) and in the wake of having climbed a short flight of stairs we find before us a sanctuary with 3 huge 'neon-Buddhas' behind glass entryways. I generally discover it to some degree abnormal to see an old Buddha statue joined with an advanced neon radiance yet then there is no representing taste.
Presently we turn left and are remaining on the moderately limit inward roundabout walkway running between the brilliant fundamental stupa on our right side and the encompassing structures to one side. Here in the core of the Sule Pagoda as well as Yangon City we and the fundamental stupa are totally segregated from the Sule's occupied and uproarious outer condition. We have entered an alternate world. This is a desert garden of peace and peacefulness in the midst of the buzzing about of the core of the city with an interminable stream of autos streaming around it.
The British made the Sule Pagoda the focal point of the coarseness design they used to fabricated British Colonial Rangoon. We are at 0 mile here on the grounds that starting here on outwards the miles are estimated. Mingaladon airplane terminal, for instance, is found 10 miles from here.
The Sule Pagoda has go through a nonstop improvement process particularly amid the most recent 120 years. It created from a moderately straightforward single stupa that was the most astounding working here encompassed by parks and just a couple of structures to what it is presently. This pagoda is unique in relation to different pagodas. It is littler, has a distinctively formed stupa, can likewise be entered at first floor level (utilizing one of the two person on foot connects) and has what I get a kick out of the chance to call a nearly town like character and climate with the brilliant primary stupa in the inside encompassed by other littler sanctuaries and the shops in the external ring of structures. Others may see that contrastingly however this is the way I see it; a town like climate.
The stupa is 157 feet/48 meters high and the at the base octagonal state of the stupa abandons changing into a round shape straight up to the hti. When you take a gander at it intently you will see that even the moldings (phaung yits), the Lotus position of authority (1 push down-turned lotus petals, kya mhauk, and 1 push up-turned lotus petals, kya lan) and the banana butt (nga pyaw bu) are not round but rather marginally octagonal.
Presently there is a young woman coming. She will solicit us to get some from the sparrows she has in her confine to give them a chance to free for favorable luck. Give us a chance to do it. Yet, be watchful. On the off chance that you grasp them too solidly they are pecking. Take 3 flying creatures. It costs 1.000 Kyats (US 1) just, will make her and the feathered creatures glad and who knows perhaps it will truly bring us good fortunes. Good fortunes is something nobody can get enough of. What's more, in the event that we don't know how fortunate we will be later on we can solicit one from the numerous diviners here. Take a gander at the shops; there are palmists, numerologists, stargazer, and so on. At the Sule Pagoda and around the pagoda are a greater amount of them than at some other pagoda in Yangon.
Alright, in the wake of having set a few sparrows free for favorable luck we begin our Sule Pagoda walk. While we are strolling clockwise I will give you some more data on the pagoda, let us go.
With the historical backdrop of the Sule Pagoda's beginning it is as it is with the majority of alternate pagodas, it is covered in myth and legend. Diverse sources give distinctive records. From most far-fetched to more averse to more probable the entire range is secured. Everybody tries to make its best because of their own advantages.
A portion of the legends available for use have started from Burmans long after the Sule Pagoda was assembled. Issue with that will be that there was no Burman in the zone that is these days called Myanmar at the time the Shwedagon Pagoda, the Botataung Pagoda and the Sule Pagoda were manufactured on the grounds that the main Burmans came over 1.000 years after the fact. In this manner, it is fitting to treat all endeavors at clarification, for example, 'Sule is gotten from the Burmese word Su-Wei (meeting)' with respect to the Burmans with alert. At the point when the Sule Pagoda was worked by the Mon and as long as Dagon was a piece of Mon kingdoms the pagoda was referred to in Mon dialect as 'Kyaik Kathoke' (which means as much as 'Pagoda of the Sacred Hair Relic') or 'Kyaik Sura'.
Incidentally, lord Anawrahta of the kingdom of Pagan (Bagan) that is otherwise called the main Burmese kingdom was not a Burman but rather a Pyu. He was the child of Pyu ruler Kunhsaw Kaunghpyu (991 A.D. to 1013 A.D.) And the Pyus, as well, were in what is these days called Myanmar long time before the Burmans. As a matter of fact it was the Pyu who established the kingdom of Pagan (Pyu King Thamudarit 107 A.D.- 152 A.D.) and ruler Anawrahta (1044 A.D. to 1077 A.D.) proceeded with a procedure that was at that point get under way. In light of this it is defended to state that there is dependably a specific requirement for basic addressing what concerns Burmese historiography.
In any case, in my endeavor to toss some light on the inceptions of the Sule Pagoda I believe that there is very some reality in the story that is connecting the Indian Buddhist bhikkhus (priests) Maha Thera Sona and Uttara to the appearing of the Sule Pagoda. Here is the story.
Around 230 B.C. the Bhikkhus (priests) Maha Thera Sona and Uttara were sent by ruler Asoka from India to Thaton to show Buddhism in 'The Golden Land' Suvarnabhumi (Mon kingdom). The story keeps saying that Sona and Uttara brought a hair relic of Gautama Buddha with them and were given authorization by King Dhamma Palla of Thaton to erect a holy place for the hair south of the Shwedagon Pagoda. This is the start of the historical backdrop of the Sule Pagoda. In spite of the fact that it is all legend I am emphatically restricted to the possibility that the Sule Pagoda is more seasoned than the Shwedagon Pagoda in light of the fact that the Sule was worked at the place were as legend has it the Sule nat was abiding. I trust that the Sule was constructed at some point around 230 A.D. Whatever else would be totally strange even against the background of legends and myths.
The association between the Shwedagon Pagoda and the Sule Pagoda is as per legend that the nat who gave the choosing data as to where the relics of the three Buddhas that went before Gautama Buddha were cherished at the Singuttara Hill originated from the Sule nat. Legend additionally says that the Sule nat has lived here were the Sule Pagoda is. In any case, to state that in light of this the Sule Pagoda must have just existed around then is as I would see it an absolutely underhanded suspicion.
Alright, while we have been strolling we have seen some littler stupas, places of worship and littler ringers. A portion of the hallowed places contain Weekday or Birthday Buddhas. There are 8 of them for Wednesday has 2 Birthday Buddhas. Why? Since Wednesday is part into two parts; Wednesday morning (12:00 AM to 12:00 twelve) and Wednesday evening 12:00 twelve to 12:00 PM). Wednesday morning conceived are elephant with tusks and Wednesday evening conceived are elephant without tusks (Rahu).
We have now finished our stroll around the Sule Pagoda fundamental stupa and touched base back at the southern passageway were we began. We have seen sanctums with other Buddha statues, the Sule Pagoda gatekeeper Bo Gyi and the two Buddha Footprint.
I have appreciated your conversation and expectation that we will meet once more.
Incidentally, some Sule Pagoda pictures you can find in my Professional Photos. They will help you to show signs of improvement thought of what the Sule Pagoda resembles.
I am German by birth yet am living since 25 years in Burma/Myanmar and know the nation, its kin, its way of life and its history exceptionally well. This has made me an expert on Burma. In the wake of resigning in 2012 I turned author. Kindly do likewise observe my Professional Photos and my profile.
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