Kyaiktiyo Pagoda

Kyaiktiyo Pagoda

Kyaiktiyo Pagoda (MYname|MY=. Fact|date=April 2008

According to the legend associated with the pagoda, the Buddha, on one of his many visits to earth, gave a strand of his hair to Taik Tha, a hermit. The hermit, in turn, gave the strand to his adopted son King Tissa, an 11th Century Burmese king, with the dying wish that the hair be enshrined in a boulder shaped like the hermit's head. Tissa, with the help of the Thagymin, the king of the Nats found the perfect place for the pagoda at Kyaiktiyo where the strand was enshrined. It is this strand of hair that, according to the legend, prevents the rock from tumbling down the hill.

The village of Kinpun (16 km (10 mi)) at the base of Mt. Kyaiktiyo is the closest village to the pagoda. There are numerous other granite boulders on the mountain, some rocking and some not.

Kyaiktiyo has become a popular tourist attraction place of Pagodas in Burma.

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External links

* [http://www.tourismmyanmar.com/kyaiktiyo.htm Tourist Myanmar Government Site]
* [http://www.haw-hamburg.de/pers/Kaspar-Sickermann/mm/emm005.html Private Tour Agent Infor Site]
* [http://webpuce.free.fr/burma/kyaiktiy/biframe.htm Photo From France]
* [http://www.keoshi.co.uk/content/view/16/26/ Golden Rock Pagoda ]
* [http://www.terraoptica.com/Articles/Kyaik-tiyo_Pagoda_Burma.html Kyaiktiyo's Golden Rock Padoga ]


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