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The inauguration ceremony for a newly constructed underground pedestrian underpass on U Wisara Road, located between the western entrance of Shwedagon Pagoda and People’s Square and Park, was held on ...

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500,000 monks, a pagoda on every high place and an ancient city (Bagan) surrounded by 2,400 shrines. Loudspeakers are delivering chants daily at 4.30 a.m. The Shwedagon Pagoda is 100m high and plated ...

King Dhammazedi of the Burmese Hanthawaddy Kingdom commissioned the world's largest bell for the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, measuring 6.3 metres tall and 4.2 metres wide. In 1608, Portuguese ...

This exposes these people to potential humiliation and makes them lose trust in mental health treatment. Devotees visit Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar’s most sacred Buddhist monument, during the ...

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