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Description Kyauksa.JPG |
English:
One of the
Burmese alphabet
inscriptions or
kyuaksa
at the
Kuthodaw Pagoda
,
Mandalay
, Myanmar. The entire
Tipitaka
Pali canon
of
Theravada Buddhism
is set on 729 marble slabs, each with 80 to 100 lines of text, originally in gold ink, on both the obverse and the reverse sides. Each stone is three and a half feet wide, five feet tall and five inches thick and housed in a
kyauksa gu
or a small cave-like
stupa
.
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Date | 23 February 2007 (original upload date) |
Source | Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. |
Author | Wagaung at English Wikipedia |
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at the
English Wikipedia
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Date/Time | Dimensions | User | Comment |
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2007-02-23 18:00 | 1200×1600× (782329 bytes) | Wagaung | One of the stone inscriptions at the Kuthodaw Pagoda |