buddha image statue burma style botataung pagoda

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Buddha image statue Burma Style of Botataung Pagoda Royalty Free Stock Photo

Buddha image statue Burma Style of Botataung Pagoda

The Botataung Pagoda is located on the Botataung Paya Road. Situated beside the Yangon River, the Botataung Pagoda means literally the Pagoda of the thousand military leaders and they were the ones who escorted the relics of the Buddha brought from India over two thousand years ago.The Botataung Pagoda was a famous Land-mark on YangonÃ¢â¬â¢s waterfront. Pagoda is hollow inside and you can walk through it. The Botataung Pagoda (Burmese: Botahtaung; literally 1000 military officers) is a famous pagoda located in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, near the Yangon river. The pagoda was first built by the Mon around the same time as was Shwedagon PagodaÃ¢â¬âaccording to local belief, over 2500 years ago, and was known as Kyaik-de-att in Mon language. The pagoda is hollow within, and houses what is believed to be a sacred hair of Gautama Buddha.