| History of production | Despite lacking of the documentary evidence, this stupa is assigned to the same period of Shwedagon, as being considered form the style. The legend also connects Sule with Shwedagon. |
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| Art | Sule is octagonal in modelling, this form continues from the bottom to the pinnacle making this stupa extraordinary. The base mouldings comprise the triple sloping mouldings and the triple torus. The emphasis of the slope of the base is typical to the Stupa in Mon country. Interestingly, the triple torus mouldings substitute the normal platform which is extraordinary for Mon stupa. This mode of substitution is also typical to Mon stupa, not to the Burmese ones. |
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| Period | Historical Period |
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| Art period | Hamsavati |
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| Age | 15th-16th century A.D. |
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| Religion | Buddhism |
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| Sect | Theravada |
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| Religion and belief | The legend of Shwedagon narrates that Bobogyi, the deity, stood at this spot and pointed toward the hill of Singuttara, the future site for enshrining the hair-relic, to the merchants and King Okkalapa. The sacred spot is marked as Sule stupa. |
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| Related artwork | There are statues of Bobogyi at the stupa in the gesture of pointing out towards Shwedagon. The cult of Bobogyi worship is popular among the Burmese and the Thai alike. |
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