Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple Explained

Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple
Map Type:Myanmar
Location:Kyaukse, Mandalay Region
Coordinates:21.6424°N 96.0547°W
Religious Affiliation:Theravada Buddhism
Country:Myanmar
Founded By:Anawrahta
Groundbreaking:11th century
Year Completed:14th century

The Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple (Burmese: တမုတ်ရှင်ပင်ရွှေဂူကြီးဘုရား) is a Buddhist temple in Kyaukse, Mandalay Region, Myanmar.[1] It was originally built by King Anawrahta of Pagan, and the second storey added by King Narapatisithu, and both were encased inside a huge stupa built by King Uzana of the Pinya dynasty. It was one of nine pagodas outside the ancient city that denoted the extent of the Bagan Empire. The temple had a pagoda on top was discovered to be hiding another pagoda inside, which in turn encased a two-storey temple.[2] [3]

Location

The temple is located about northwest of Kyaukse on the road leading to the town of Tada-U. It is near Kyaung Pangon and Nyaung Pin Sauk villages.[4]

History

The first one-storey temple was built by King Anawrahta in the 11th century, and his grandson King Narapatisithu made it with double storey cave temple decorated Jataka stories on the upper terrace in the 12th century, and finally the whole was encased in the 14th century by King Uzana, and further protected by nature. Over the years this became hidden underneath a hill, which in 1915 was topped by a new stupa. In 1993 some traces of an ancient brick structure were detected at the foot of the hill, but permission to excavate was only granted in 2008 due to concerns that doing so would damage the encasing stupa.[5] [6] [7] [8]

In 2015, the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture designated Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple as an ancient heritage site of Myanmar.[9] [10] [11] [12]

Notes and References

  1. News: ကျောက်ဆည် တမုတ်ရွှေဂူကြီးဘုရားဗုဒ္ဓဝင်ပြတိုက် ရှေးဟောင်းနယ်မြေပြင်ပတွင် ဆောက်လုပ်မည် . . 25 December 2019 . my . 4 November 2020 . 21 February 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210221174833/http://thevoicemyanmar.com/news/38718-kyk . live .
  2. Web site: Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi (Ta Mok Shwe-gu-gyi) Temple . Shwe Myanmar Info . en . 2020-11-04 . 2020-09-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200921133331/https://www.shwemyanmar.info/mobile/attraction/Tamote-Shinpin-Shwegugyi-Temple-104.html . live .
  3. News: ပုဂံခေတ်လက်ရာ တမုတ်ရွှေဂူကြီးဘုရား ထိန်းသိမ်းရေး ထိုင်း ကူညီမည် . . 14 March 2013 . my . 4 November 2020 . 11 February 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210211051252/https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2013/03/14/35604.html . live .
  4. News: ဗိသုကာလက္ရာထူးေတြနဲ႔ တမုတ္ရွင္ပင္ေရႊဂူဘုရား . The Standard Time Daily . 27 February 2019 . my . 4 November 2020 . 28 August 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190828185025/http://sdtimedaily.com/2019/02/27/kz03-90/ . live .
  5. News: Amazing discovery in Kyaukse region . . 3 October 2011 . 4 November 2020 . 10 November 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181110160143/https://www.mmtimes.com/lifestyle/1946-amazing-discovery-in-kyaukse-region.html . live .
  6. News: တမုတ်ရွှေဂူကြီး အမိုးခုံးကို ဒီဇင်ဘာလတွင် စတင် ဆောက်လုပ်မည် . . 8 November 2012 . my . 2020-11-04 . 2021-02-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210221201507/https://myanmar.mmtimes.com/national-news/mandalay-upper-myanmar/2122-2012-11-08-11-30-23.html . live .
  7. Web site: "The Encased Buddhist Monuments and Buddha Statues found in Myanmar" . Asia Pacific Sociological Association . 2020-11-04 . 2021-02-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210205102810/http://www.itbmu.org.mm/index.php?page=secure_magazine&file=Ko-Myo-(Myo-Nyunt-Aung).pdf . live .
  8. News: Fame . Asian . ေခတ္သုံးေခတ္႐ုပ္ပြားဆင္းတုေတာ္မ်ားတည္ရွိရာ တမုတ္ရွင္ပင္ေရႊဂူႀကီးဘုရား . . 8 May 2017 . my . 25 March 2023 . 28 February 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210228163624/https://www.popularmyanmar.com/2017/05/08/%E1%80%B1%E1%80%81%E1%80%90%E1%80%B9%E1%80%9E%E1%80%AF%E1%80%B6%E1%80%B8%E1%80%B1%E1%80%81%E1%80%90%E1%80%B9%E1%82%90%E1%80%AF%E1%80%95%E1%80%B9%E1%80%95%E1%80%BC%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8%E1%80%86%E1%80%84/ . live .
  9. News: တမုတ်ရှင်ပင်ရွှေဂူကြီး စေတီပရိဝုဏ်ကို ရှေးဟောင်းဇုန်အဖြစ် သတ်မှတ် . . 15 December 2015 . my.
  10. News: တမုတ်ရွှေဂူကြီးဘုရားကို ရှေးဟောင်း အမွေအနှစ်စာရင်း၌ ထည့်သွင်းမည် . . 7 January 2015 . my . 4 November 2020 . 9 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220209093133/https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2015/01/07/69478.html . live .
  11. News: တမုတ်ရှင်ပင်ရွှေဂူဘုရားကို ရှေးဟောင်းအမွေအနှစ်အဖြစ် သတ်မှတ်ရန် တင်ပြထား . . 2 September 2015 . my . 2020-11-04 . 2021-02-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210226024104/https://myanmar.mmtimes.com/national-news/mandalay-upper-myanmar/15725-2015-09-02-06-37-04.html . live .
  12. News: Bagan-era pagoda in line for listing . . 1 September 2015 . 4 November 2020 . 7 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210107050449/https://www.mmtimes.com/national-news/16237-bagan-era-pagoda-in-line-for-listing.html . live .

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