MYANMAR PHOTO DIARY: Oldest Teakwood Monastery, World's Largest Book, and Mandalay Hill
The Oldest Teakwood Monastery found at the foot of Mandalay Hill. *** Monks line up the street while they head back to the School-Monastery ahead. There are many monastery in Mandalay as this was the capital city when the education flourished in Myanmar. *** A huge Monastery-School just a walk from the Oldest Teakwood Monastery. *** The Biggest Book in the World is actually a collection of marble tablets where the holy scriptures were written by scholar-monks in Pali page by page in a huge effort by the king to preserve Buddhism. *** I admire this huge door with engravings. Must be teakwood too. *** Each page consisting of one marble tablet is housed in this small temple/altar. *** A photograph of a marble tablet. The scripture is written in Pali, an ancient Myanmarese language. *** MANDALAY, MYANMAR. The world's largest book stands upright, set in stone, in the...