TWO NIGHTS IN
Nothing quite prepares you for the breathtaking splendour of this complex of Stupas and Buddhas in YANGON… a vision of pure gold that shines and glimmers against dark blue skies during the twilight hours that is the best time to enter the complex. The energy is pure and powerful and it reaches out to touch your heart. I cried that instant I walked into the South courtyard and took in the sight. In that moment everything else seemed to vanish from my mind. I was convinced I was standing in Pure Land on earth. Surely there cannot be such a place on our planet!
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wo of my closest Buddhist friends are with me the weekend I visited Yangon by Air Asia - Emilee Lee and Puan Sri Siew Yong as well as my niece Honey and nephew Han Jin. Te five of us had decided on the spur of the moment to undertake this pilgrimage
journey to Yangon. Nothing prompted us to come. It was truly a spur of the moment thing - almost as if an unseen force made us come to pay homage to this 2500 year old Pagoda that contains 8 hair relics of Buddha Shakyamuni Himself. We had heard so much about Burma’s golden pagodas but nothing prepares you for the real thing. As soon as we stepped foot into the pagoda complex,
everywhere we looked there were giant sized Buddhas. Tese were enclosed in golden shrines that shimmered and glimmered with crystals and precious stones, their bodies in the white marble from which they are made and so many covered with the finest gold leaf. Tere were thousands of Buddha images, mostly of Shakyamuni Buddha the fourth Buddha of this fortunate eon which is believed will last a thousand years… and in huge gompas on the four cardinal directions are the three Buddhas preceding Shakyamuni. Everywhere I looked there are grottos, altars and special halls each housing a Buddha, one more amazingly beautiful than the next.
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