Address Pyay Yahandur – Gu Temple, Myanmar Pyay, Myanmar (Burma) Moolavar Buddha Introduction                 Yahandar-gu is a small Buddhist temple often compared to an ascetic’s cave, as it sits low to the ground and includes four dark, narrow entrances (now cordoned off with iron gates). Sometimes spelled as Rahanta, the temple was likely built in […]

Address Phowintaung Cave Complex, Myanmar (Burma) Damapala, Monywa District, Sagaing Region Myanmar (Burma) Moolavar Buddha Introduction                     Phowintaung Cave complex, also spelt as Hpowindaung, Powintaung, Po Win Taung) is a Buddhist cave complex located approximately 25 kilometers (16 mi) west of Monywa and 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) southeast of Yinmabin, in Yinmabin Township, Monywa District, Sagaing Region, Northern Burma (Myanmar). It is located on the western bank of the Chindwin […]

Address Gubyaukgyi Temple (Myinkaba), Myanmar (Burma) Myin Ka Bar, Myinkaba Village, Bagan, Myanmar (Burma) Moolavar Buddha Introduction                 The Gubyaukgyi (alt. Kubyauk-gyi) temple, located just south of Bagan, Myanmar, in Myinkaba Village, is a Buddhist temple built in 1113 AD by Prince Yazakumar, shortly after the death of his father, King Kyansittha of the Pagan Dynasty. The temple is notable for two reasons. First, it contains […]

Address Bagan Gu-yo-gyo-hpaya Temple, Myanmar Bagan,  Myanmar (Burma) Moolavar Buddha Introduction                 Gu-yo-gyo-hpaya is a small Buddhist temple, 13th century temple located directly to the northeast of That-byin-nyu. The shrine is laid out in the form of a Greek cross with two renovated Buddha images—one large and one small—seated back-to-back against a common backrest. The central shrine […]

Address Bagan Apalyadana Temple, Myanmar Myin Ka Bar, Bagan, Myanmar (Burma) Moolavar Buddha Introduction                 Abe-ya-dana-hpaya is located immediately to the south of Myinkaba village, sitting on the north side of a group of temples that includes the Naga-yon-hpaya and the Som-min-gyi-hpaya stupa. Puranic Significance  The temple likely dates to the late 11th or early 12th centuries, […]