Kyaik Htiyo

Site common name	Kyaik Htiyo
Type of artwork	Architecture
Village	-
Province/City	Kyaik Htiyo
State	Mon
Country	Myanmar
Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree	Lat : 17.481389 Long : 97.098056

History of production	No historical record about the construction of the stupa is found but the legend goes that the Stupa was built by Indra.
Art	The hanging rock on the cliff is of the most exciting natural phenomenon. This natural stone was thereon converted onto the Buddhist monument. The Karens, who were formerly followed animism, were supposed to be the ones who establish the sacredness of the rock prior the advent of Buddhism. Thereafter, the rock was established as the Buddhist monument by the Mons.
Period	Historical Period
Age	-
Religion	Buddhism
Sect	Theravada
Religion and belief	The myth narrates that a dying hermit who kept the hair relics inside his chignon requested Indra used the miraculous power to build a stupa for the relics, The hermit also requested that the Stupa must be similar to his head. Indra therefore enshrined the relic inside the stone similar to the hermit’s head.

Type of License	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
Rights	Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Date of record creation	2015-02-00
Record creator	Chedha Tingsanchali