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Buddha Footprint on the ceiling

Keywords : footprint Buddha, Buddha, Amarapura, Kyauk Taw Gyi, King Paganmin

Site common nameKyauktawgyi
Type of artworkPainting
Village-
Province/CityAmarapura
StateMandalay
CountryMyanmar
Geographic Coordinates
Decimal degree		Lat : 21.894167
Long : 96.064722

History of productionKing Pakanmin ordered the construction of Kyauktawgyi at Amarapura as a replica of Anada Chedi in Phukam. However, paintings inside the Chedi are completely different from those in Anada Chedi.
ArtIt seems that painters at Kyauktawgyi were quite modern in painting modern cosmology. Stars are arranged in groups according to the modern pattern. There are pictures and names that help identify each group of the stars. The painting of stars at Kyauktawgyi show that this Chedi is the actual center of the universe.
PeriodHistorical Period
Art periodAmarapura-Mandalay
Age24th Century BE.
ReligionBuddhism
SectTheravada

Type of LicenseAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
RightsPrincess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Date of record creation2015-07-00
Record creatorChedha Tingsanchali