Sandamuni Pagoda
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| Sandamuni Pagoda | |
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| စန္ဒာမုနိစေတီ | |
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 Sandamuni Pagoda
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| Denomination | Theravada Buddhism |
| Founded | 1874 |
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| Founder(s) | King Mindon Min |
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| Country | Mandalay, Mandalay Region, Burma |
Sandamani Pagoda (Burmese: စန္ဒာမုနိစေတီ; formally နန်းမြေဘုံသာစံနန်းတော်ရာစန္ဒာမုနိဘုရား) is a Buddhist stupa located southwest of Mandalay Hill.[1] It was commissioned by King Mindon Min in 1874 as a memorial to Mindon Min's younger brother, Kanaung Mintha, who was assassinated along with 3 princes, Malun, Saku, and Maingpyin, during the 1866 Myingun Prince rebellion.[2][1] The pagoda was erected at the provisional location of the royal palace, the Nanmyay Bontha.[1]
This pagoda contains the graves of the Kanaung, Sagu Mintha, Malun and Maingpyin Princes.[2] It also contains an iron image of the Buddha cast by Bodawpaya in 1802, and removed from Amarapura by Mindon in 1874.[2] The statue reportedly weighs 40,924.8 pounds (18,563.2 kg).[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Fiala 2002.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Mandalay 1910, p. 12.
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