One of our last stops – Mahamuni Buddha Pagoda. I remember when I took a tour of Italy. By the end, I didn’t care to see another cathedral. I am OK with this being the last pagoda of our trip.
The Mahamuni Pagoda is one of the most important Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Mandalay if not all of Burma.
The Buddha figure is disfigured due to the number of people who pay homage to the image and add gold leaf. Gold leaf can be added anywhere to the statue except the face.
The temple was quite crowded and there was a bunch of mainly boys dressed up. I am not sure what the ceremony was for but it was clearly for some sort of rites of passage. I never did get the story on that. I had to laugh, some of the boys and girls weren’t all that happy being all dressed up and made up standing around waiting.
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