Myanmar's Shwezigon Pagoda in Bagan welcomed over 380,000 visitors during the Thadingyut holidays from Oct 16 to Oct 20, Myo Min Aung, assistant director of the Bagan's Directorate of Hotels and ...

Myanmar is a land of old history and rich traditions; it has thousands of pagodas that are the spiritual hearts of the nation ...

Chan Wunna Soe is reciting by heart the history of the famous Shwezigon pagoda in Nyaung-U near the ancient city of Bagan to a captivated group of pilgrims. Despite the midday sun beating down on ...

Shwezigon Pagoda was built to enshrine one of the four replicas of the tooth relic of Buddha, given by the king of Ceylon. It began with the first Burmese King Anawrahta converting to Buddhism and ...

YANGON (Xinhua): The Chinese Consulate General in Myanmar's Mandalay has donated lighting equipment for Shwezigon Pagoda (pic), a famous Buddhist stupa. A handover ceremony was held at the ...

Everyone visiting Myanmar eventually finds their way up north - to Bagan. As a matter of fact, Bagan summarises the very existence of Myanmar, its culture ..

The Bell inscriptions are now located at the Shwezigon Pagoda in Bagan and were donated by King Bayinnaung in 1557 AD. The King Bayinnaung Bell Inscriptions document the donations made for Buddhist ...