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Shwe Mawdaw
Keywords : hairy relic, Shwe Mawdaw, Mon Stupa
| Site common name | Shwe Mawdaw |
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| Type of artwork | Architecture |
| Village | - |
| Province/City | Bago |
| State | ฺBago |
| Country | Myanmar |
| Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree | Lat : 17.336667 Long : 96.498056 |
| History of production | Shwemawdaw, believed to contain the hairy relics of the Master, is the most important Stupa of the city Bago or Hamsavati, the former capital of the Mons. Formerly, the Stupa located outside the city. Thereon, King Bayinnaung, after constructing the new city, included the Stupa inside the city. |
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| Art | Stylistically, Mon Stupa is strongly different from that in Burmese art. The base is in multi-angular octagonal plan . The bases are sloping and the staircases as well as the upper circumambulatory path are absent. Miniatures stupas are normally cloistered at the ground level. The banana-liked bud at the top is more elongate than that of the Burmese one. This Stupa was rebuilt following the collapse of the Stupa due to the powerful earthquake in the early 20th century. The newly constructed Stupa is unfortunately not as beautiful as the former one. |
| Period | Historical Period |
| Art period | Hamsavati |
| Age | 15th-16th century A.D. |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| Sect | Theravada |
| Religion and belief | According to the legend, two merchants carried the hairy relics and enshrined here with the patronage of the king. The legend is obviously written by being influenced from the Shwedagon’s one. |
| Type of License | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) |
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| Rights | Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre |
| Date of record creation | 2015-02-00 |
| Record creator | Chedha Tingsanchali |
