Kuthodaw Paya
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Nigel Shaw
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About this spot
Kuthodaw Paya is a Buddhist stupa, located in Mandalay that contains the world's largest book. It was built during the reign of King Mindon. The stupa itself, which is gilded above its terraces, is 57 m high, and is modelled after the Shwezigon Pagoda at Nyaung-U near Bagan. In the grounds of the pagoda are 729 kyauksa gu or stone-inscription caves, each containing a marble slab inscribed on both sides with a page of text from the Tipitaka, the entire Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism, carved between 1860 and 1868. Each stone is 1.5m x 1m.
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