Kyaik Ne Yay Lae Pagoda Explained

Kyaik Ne Yay Lae Pagoda
Image Upright:	1.1
Map Type:	Burma
Location:	Thanbyuzayat Township, Mon State
Coordinates:	15.9496°N 97.6049°W

Kyaik Ne Yay Lae Pagoda(Burmese: ဆံတော်ရှင်ကျိုက်နဲ ရေလယ်ဘုရား) is a Buddhist pagoda located in the mid of ocean in Wekalaung village of Thanbyuzayat township in Mon state of Myanmar. The pagoda can be reached on foot via long ridge when the tide is low. When tide becomes high, the pagoda is disconnected from the local village. The pagoda is visited by Buddhist pilgrims mainly on the second full of Tan Saung Mon. It is believed that the blessings of The Buddha helps to reduce the flow and open the way for the pilgrims to the pagoda.^[1] The pagoda was built by King Thirimathaka (Ashoka in Burmese language).^[2]

Incidents

• In 2021, due to sudden rise in the tide, 15 were dead and several pilgrims were injured as they were washed by water on the way to the pagoda.^{[3] [4]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: ကျိုက်နဲရေလယ်ဘုရား  ဆံတော်ရှင်ဘုရားဖူးမြော်သူ  သိန်းချီရှိခဲ့ - The Myanmar Times. 2021-11-23.
2. Web site: admin. "က်ိဳက္ႏွဲေရလယ္ဘုရား သမိုင္းေၾကာင္း". ALANZAYAR. 2021-11-23. 2021-11-22.
3. Web site: လူတိုင်းမသိသေးတဲ့ ကျိုက်နှဲရေလယ်ဘုရား သမိုင်းကြောင်း. ApannPyay Media. 2021-11-23. 2021-11-22.
4. Web site: ကျိုက် နဲ့ ရေလယ်ဘုရား ဖြစ်ရပ်လေးမှာ ဒီရေလှိုင်းနဲ့အတူ မျောပါသွားကြချိန် ရိုက်ကူးထားတဲ့ စိတ်မချမ်းမြေ့ဖွယ် ရုပ်သံဖိုင်. Myanmarload. 2021-11-23.