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Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 25.101] ’Shwenandaw Monastery (1).’ Woodcarvings on the exterior of the Shwenandaw Monastery in Mandalay. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.684] ’Planetary post of Rahu.’ In Yangon (Rangoon) a Burmese family is venerating the red planetary post of Rahu at the base of the Shwedagon Pagoda. Rahu was believed to be the mythical planet which causes eclipses. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.689] ’Tiger statue.’ At the ’planetary post’ of the moon, a small shrine near the base of the central stupa of Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda, a woman is scooping water from a silver bowl. She will pour the water on the tiger statue that is associated with the moon and monday, thus ritually washing it. Worshippers make offerings to planetary posts according to the day of the week they were born. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.695] ’Golden meditation-2.’ The terrace around the Naungdawyi Stupa in the northeastern corner of Yangon’s Shwedagon temple is open only to meditating men. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.698] ’Golden meditation-3.’ The terrace around the Naungdawyi Stupa in the northeastern corner of Yangon’s Shwedagon temple is open only to meditating men. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.706] ’Statue at Kaba Aye Pagoda.’ Statue at the Kaba Aye Pagoda in Yangon (Rangoon). Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.721] ’Four Figures Pagoda.’ The Four Figures Pagoda in Bago has four standing Buddha’s whose gilded robes shimmer in the late afternoon sun. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.741] ’Meditating monk-2.’ Surrounded by his petrified brothers, a monk is meditating in the last sun-rays of the day at Zay Ta Won Monastery, north of Thawatti. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.866] ’Ruined stupas-2.’ At Indein, a village on the west shore of the Inle Lake, the Shwe Inn Thein Pagoda complex (founded in the 11th century) is for the greater part in a dilapidated state. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
[BURMA 25.101]
’Shwenandaw Monastery (1).’

Woodcarvings on the exterior of the Shwenandaw Monastery in Mandalay. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 25.101] ’Shwenandaw Monastery (1).’ Woodcarvings on the exterior of the Shwenandaw Monastery in Mandalay. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
[BURMA 25.101]
’Shwenandaw Monastery (1).’

Woodcarvings on the exterior of the Shwenandaw Monastery in Mandalay. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
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