Thatta Thattaha Maha Bawdi Pagoda

Thatta Thattaha Maha Bawdi Pagoda (Burmese: သတ္တသတ္တာဟ မဟာဗောဓိစေတီတော်; Pali: Sattasattāhamahābodhi Cetiya) is a Buddhist temple on Udayaraṃsi hillock in Pobbathiri Township, Naypyidaw Union Territory, Myanmar (Burma). The pagoda is a replica of the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India.^[1] The replica is 162 feet (49 m) tall.

Thatta Thattaha Maha Bawdi Pagoda
သတ္တသတ္တာဟ မဟာဗောဓိစေတီတော်
Religion
Affiliation	Theravada Buddhism
Location
Country	Pobbathiri Township, Naypyidaw, Burma
Geographic coordinates	19.966611°N 96.150353°E / 19.966611; 96.150353
Architecture
Founder	Naypyidaw Development Committee
Completed	2015; 9 years ago (2015)

The buddhābhiṣeka ritual of the pagoda's main Buddha image was held on 13 May 2014.^[2]

The complex also houses replicas of key locations in Gautama Buddha's life (သံဝေဇနိယလေးဌာန), including his birth, his enlightenment, his preaching and his death, built for worshippers who have difficulties making a pilgrimage to Bodh Gaya.^[3]

See also

• Buddhism in Myanmar

References

1. "Nay Pyi Taw". Ministry of Hotels and Tourism, Myanmar. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
2. "နေပြည်တော် သတ္တသတ္တာဟ မဟာဗောဓိစေတီတော်၌ ရွှေကြာသင်္ကန်းတော်ကပ်နှင့် ဗုဒ္ဓါဘိသေက အနေကဇာတင် မဟာမင်္ဂလာအခမ်းအနားကျင်းပ". Myanmar News Agency.
3. "နေပြည်တော်ရှိ အထင်ကရနေရာများ". Naypyitaw Development Committee. Archived from the original on 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2018-10-27.