Kaungmudaw Pagoda in Sagaing

The Kaungmudaw Pagoda in Gold

Kaungmudaw pagoda is one of the most well known pagodas in Myanmar for its dome shaped designed. It is totally different from our traditional-style, pyramidal structures of Burmese Pagodas. It is one of the tourist attraction sites in the Sagaing Area.

Basement view of the Huge Pagoda

In AD 1636, it was built by King Thalun and his son. The pagoda is 46 meters (151 ft) high and has circumference of 274 meters. At the base of the pagoda, there are 812 stone pillars and each one with a hollow and an image of 120 nats in it.

The stupa enshrined the Buddhist relics inside its relic chamber.

Kaungmudaw Pagoda when it was white

Kaungmudaw pagoda is also known as Yazaamanisula Pagoda. The pagoda dome has been continuously painted white to signify purity but now it was glided with gold.

According to local saying, the king agonized interminably over how to shape the stupa. Hia Queen tired of hubby’s indecisiveness, ripped open her blouse and pointing to her breast, said “Make it like this!” But it was actually modeled after the Rumanwelisuya Pagoda of Sri Lanka.

 
Thanakhar and local product Shops in the Pagoda Compound

 

At the Pagoda

 

The Shops on the way to Pagoda

 

Local Products and Thanakhar

 

Traditional Snack shop 1