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20131118_Myanmar_3773+1 Mandalay

Surrounding the central stupa at Kuthodaw Pagoda are 729 pavilions, each containing a marble tablet inscribed on the front and back with a page of text from the Tripitaka (the Buddhist canon of scriptures) making this ‘the world’s largest book.’ A 730th pavilion records how all this came into being. The pavilions were opened to the public on 4 May 1868.

 

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Kuthodaw Pagoda 22° 0'16.75"N, 96° 6'46.55"E

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Uploaded on March 1, 2014
Taken on November 18, 2013