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 While I was in Wat Olak Madu I took numerous photographs of some of the modern artworks that are found in the Preaching Hall and Sima Hall, which has resulted in two new albums for the Photo Dharma website. Read More: Photographs of Paintings from Wat Olak Madu  At the end of March two good friends teamed up together for the first time and got me over to Kelantan in north-eastern Malaysia to photograph the old Thai temples there. The result is 5 new albums for the Photo Dharma website. Read More: New Photographs from Kelantan  Po Win Daung is a large complex of 800+ sandstone caves around 20 km from Monywa, which have been dug out of the hills and contains what is considered to be one of the richest collection of mural paintings and Buddhist statues in South-East Asia. Read More: Buddhas and Murals at the Po Win Caves – 2  This is a well-researched and informative documentary about the Sacred Temple of Shri Tribhuvan Maheshwar that is now known as Banteay Srei, which stands 25km north-east of the main Angkor complex in Cambodia. Read More: A Spiritual Journey to the World Heritage Site: Banteay Srei  The very next day we organised a major outing to go and see the Po Win caves which are west of Monywa, and around 150km away from our base. This was probably our biggest “find” on the trip. Read More: Buddhas and Murals at the Po Win Caves – 1  After visiting and photographing the Kyauktawgyi Pagoda, and feeling more satisfied with ourselves, having done one of the things we had set out to do, we decided to walk back over the U Bein bridge. The bridge is said, at around 1200 metres long, to be the longest teak bridge in the world, and Read More: Idyllic Taungthaman Lake  King Pagan built the Kyauktawgyi Temple on an island in the Taugthaman Lake in 1847, inside there are many very fine mural paintings showing temples and pagodas from throughout the Burmese Kingdom. Read More: Mural Paintings at Kyauktawgyi Pagoda  One of the most interesting of the many art forms I came across in Myanmar was the mosaic work, which is often a mixture of small mirrors and stained glass or coloured stones that adorn the temples and pagodas throughout the country. Read More: Decorative Mosaics in the Temples and Pagodas in Myanmar  The Sutaungpyai Pagoda, which is situated right on the top of the Mandalay hill is a really wonderful temple to see, with very beautiful and complex mosaic glasswork covering the pillars, walls, ceilings and shrines. Read More: Sutaungpyai Pagoda, Mandalay  Yesterday we saw the Tipitaka had been carved on marble slabs at the Kuthodaw Pagoda. Right next door at the Sandamuni Pagoda, there are slabs which contain not just the Tipitaka, but the commentaries and sub-commentaries as well. Read More: Sandamuni Pagoda, Mandalay  The World’s Largest Book stands upright in the grounds of the Kuthodaw Pagoda. It has 730 leaves and 1460 pages; each page is approximately three and a half feet wide, five feet tall and five inches thick. Read More: Kuthodaw Pagoda, Mandalay  The Mahamuni Temple or Pagoda is a complex of structures located along a road from Mandalay leading to Amarapura in the southwest. The temple has a central shrine and is framed by an extensive grass lawn. The arcades leading to the main shrine have, as in many temples and pagodas in Myanmar, kiosks selling religious paraphernalia such as incense, candles, rosaries, flowers, robes, sandals etc., and various restaurants and tea shops. Read More: Mahamuni Pagoda, Mandalay  The Shwedagon Pagoda, also known as the Golden Pagoda, is a 98-metre gilded stupa located in Yangon. The pagoda lies to the west of Kandawgyi Lake, on the Singuttara Hill and dominates the skyline of the city. Read More: Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon – 2  Today I start posting photographs from my recent trip to Myanmar. All the albums are now online and can be accessed from the Myanmar page of my Photo Dharma website, but on the blog I will also offer some more personal recollections than is possible there. Read More: Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon – 1  This week the expedition, which has been traveling along the southern trade routes, doubles back and explores the area along the northern route. Read More: The Silk Road 11/12: Where Horses Fly Like the Wind  The theme that runs throughout this week’s episode is music and dance. It includes some of the most interesting ethnographic photography of the Uighars in Kucha along the southern route passing through the Tian Shan mountains. Read More: The Silk Road 10/12: Journey Into Music, South Through the Tian Shan Mountains  In 1956, Phra Kru Palat Vieng, a veteran member of the Sangha and an old time resident of Kuala Lumpur initiated the idea of building a sizeble Buddhist Temple close to the federal capital of Kuala Lumpur. Read More: Royal Wat Chetawan, Kuala Lumpur  Recently I had a short stay in Kuala Lumpur, and I took the opportunity to do some more photography while I was there. The first place I visited was the Sinhalese Cemetery which now lies alongside the Cheras Highway. Read More: The Sinhalese Cemetery in Kuala Lumpur  The expedition continues its journey westwards through Turfan, The Land of Fire, visiting a dried-up lake 150 metres below sea level, and the Fire Mountains on the way.  There is very little archeology or art in this episode. The expedition flies over the desert in search of the ruins at Dan-dan Oilik, which was visited by Aurel Stein, but fails to find it as it had been covered by the desert at the time. Read More: The Silk Road 7/12: Khotan-Oasis of Silk and Jade |
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