Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple

The Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple (Burmese: တမုတ်ရှင်ပင်ရွှေဂူကြီးဘုရား) is a Buddhist temple in Kyaukse, Mandalay Region, Myanmar.^[1] It was originally built by King Anawrahta of Pagan, and the second storey added by King Narapatisithu, and both were encased inside a huge stupa built by King Uzana of the Pinya dynasty. It was one of nine pagodas outside the ancient city that denoted the extent of the Bagan Empire. The temple had a pagoda on top was discovered to be hiding another pagoda inside, which in turn encased a two-storey temple.^[2][3]

Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple
Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple
Religion
Affiliation	Theravada Buddhism
Location
Location	Kyaukse, Mandalay Region
Country	Myanmar
Shown within Myanmar
Geographic coordinates	21°38′32.7″N 96°03′17.06″E
Architecture
Founder	Anawrahta
Groundbreaking	11th century
Completed	14th century

Location

The temple is located about northwest of Kyaukse on the road leading to the town of Tada-U. It is near Kyaung Pangon and Nyaung Pin Sauk villages.^[4]

History

Three encased Buddha images

The first one-storey temple was built by King Anawrahta in the 11th century, and his grandson King Narapatisithu made it with double storey cave temple decorated Jataka stories on the upper terrace in the 12th century, and finally the whole was encased in the 14th century by King Uzana, and further protected by nature. Over the years this became hidden underneath a hill, which in 1915 was topped by a new stupa. In 1993 some traces of an ancient brick structure were detected at the foot of the hill, but permission to excavate was only granted in 2008 due to concerns that doing so would damage the encasing stupa.^[5][6][7][8]

In 2015, the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture designated Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple as an ancient heritage site of Myanmar.^{[9][10][11][12]}

Gallery

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  Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple.
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  Stone images featuring flora and mythical creature motifs in relief, similar in craftsmanship to those found in Bagan.
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  Stone-carved images
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  Reclining Buddha in the temple.
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  Buddha statues.
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  Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple compound in 2016.

References

1. "ကျောက်ဆည် တမုတ်ရွှေဂူကြီးဘုရားဗုဒ္ဓဝင်ပြတိုက် ရှေးဟောင်းနယ်မြေပြင်ပတွင် ဆောက်လုပ်မည်". The Voice Weekly (in Burmese). 25 December 2019. Archived from the original on 21 February 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
2. "Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi (Ta Mok Shwe-gu-gyi) Temple". Shwe Myanmar Info. Archived from the original on 2020-09-21. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
3. "ပုဂံခေတ်လက်ရာ တမုတ်ရွှေဂူကြီးဘုရား ထိန်းသိမ်းရေး ထိုင်း ကူညီမည်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 14 March 2013. Archived from the original on 11 February 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
4. "ဗိသုကာလက္ရာထူးေတြနဲ႔ တမုတ္ရွင္ပင္ေရႊဂူဘုရား". The Standard Time Daily (in Burmese). 27 February 2019. Archived from the original on 28 August 2019. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
5. "Amazing discovery in Kyaukse region". The Myanmar Times. 3 October 2011. Archived from the original on 10 November 2018. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
6. "တမုတ်ရွှေဂူကြီး အမိုးခုံးကို ဒီဇင်ဘာလတွင် စတင် ဆောက်လုပ်မည်". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 8 November 2012. Archived from the original on 2021-02-21. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
7. ""The Encased Buddhist Monuments and Buddha Statues found in Myanmar"" (PDF). Asia Pacific Sociological Association. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-02-05. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
8. Fame, Asian (8 May 2017). "ေခတ္သုံးေခတ္႐ုပ္ပြားဆင္းတုေတာ္မ်ားတည္ရွိရာ တမုတ္ရွင္ပင္ေရႊဂူႀကီးဘုရား". Popular News Journal (in Burmese). Archived from the original on 28 February 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
9. "တမုတ်ရှင်ပင်ရွှေဂူကြီး စေတီပရိဝုဏ်ကို ရှေးဟောင်းဇုန်အဖြစ် သတ်မှတ်". 7Day News (in Burmese). 15 December 2015.
10. "တမုတ်ရွှေဂူကြီးဘုရားကို ရှေးဟောင်း အမွေအနှစ်စာရင်း၌ ထည့်သွင်းမည်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 7 January 2015. Archived from the original on 9 February 2022. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
11. "တမုတ်ရှင်ပင်ရွှေဂူဘုရားကို ရှေးဟောင်းအမွေအနှစ်အဖြစ် သတ်မှတ်ရန် တင်ပြထား". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 2 September 2015. Archived from the original on 2021-02-26. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
12. "Bagan-era pagoda in line for listing". The Myanmar Times. 1 September 2015. Archived from the original on 7 January 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2020.