Address Bagan Loka-hteik-pan Temple, Myanmar Old Bagan, Myanmar (Burma) Moolavar Buddha Introduction                               Loka-hteik-pan (c. 12th century) is a small Buddhist temple located about 170 meters NNW of the massive Shwe-hsan-daw temple.  The renown of the mural paintings is such that the Archaeological Department posts a permanent guard whose sole function is to monitor visitors’ […]

Address Bagan Kyauk-mye-mo-zedi-gyi Stupa, Myanmar Nyaung-U, Bagan,  Myanmar (Burma) Moolavar Buddha Introduction                 Kyauk-mye-mo-zedi-gyi is one of about 50 instances of “encased” stupas in Bagan, in which an older stupa is encased in a newer (though still ancient) stupa built around it. It is located near the east bank of the Irrawaddy river amidst a small […]

Address Bagan Kathapa-hpaya, Myanmar Nyaung-U, Bagan,  Myanmar (Burma) Moolavar Buddha Introduction                                     Kathapa-Hpaya, formally known as Monument No. 505, stands a half kilometer northeast of Minnanthu village in an uncultivated field dotted with dozens of ruins. It is a typical middle-sized, late period temple measuring about 16 meters east-west and 12.5 meters north south. […]

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 […]