Myanmar Travel Rangoon - Botataung Kyaik De Att Pagoda (Sacred Hair Relic Temple)

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 Myanmar Travel Rangoon - Botataung Kyaik De Att Pagoda (Sacred Hair Relic Temple)(2017 1020)

Address: Strand Rd, Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)

Geographic coordinates 16.768449°N 96.171973°E

 

The pagoda was first built by the Mon around the same time as was Shwedagon Pagoda—according to local belief, over 2500 years ago, and was known as Kyaik-de-att in Mon language. The pagoda is hollowed within, and houses what is believed to be a sacred hair of Gautama Buddha.


This chamber of which all walls and the ceiling are covered with gold contains the sacred Buddha relic. The relic is enshrined and exhibited in an ivory shrine studded and decorated with gold, diamonds and precious jewels.



Outside of Pagoda Ground






 


Location: Strand Rd, Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)

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