Discover the breathtaking Temples of Bagan—thousands of ancient pagodas rising from the mist, telling stories of Myanmar’s ...

In a nation rocked by centuries of devastating earthquakes, none comes close to the death and devastation unleashed a month ...

the ancient Burmese capital on a plain alongside the Irrawaddy River that contains the world’s greatest concentration of Buddhist temples, pagodas and stupas. But while Bagan draws more than a ...

Than Shwe was a frequent visitor to Bagan ... year-old Danok Pagoda outside Yangon and placed a jewel-encrusted hti, or sacred umbrella, atop the spire. Three weeks later, the temple collapsed ...

Although the decision was made to evacuate the sand from the temple, known as Black Pagoda, located near the Bay of Bengal, three years ago, no work has been done to that effect so far. The delay in ...

Yunjie Temple and Chaoyangdong Temple all stand at the foot of Phoenix Hill beside the Daling River about six kilometers east of Chaoyang City. The pagoda in Yunjie Temple is a rarely seen example ...

At its heyday in the early Nara Period, Daianji temple was apparently complete with east and west pagodas and about 100 halls and housing facilities on a 260,000-square-meter site. But it was ...

Located thirty kilometers northeast of Changping District, the pagoda forest stands on the old site of the ancient Yanshou Temple on the southern slope of Yinshan (Silver) Hill near Haizi Village.

People make small sand pagodas in a temple during Thai New Year, Songkran Festival. This is a traditional activity in the old days to bring sand to the temple, for example, to build pagodas.

Wrap me in the gardens of Bagan, Call me Burma, call me Burma, The Arakan Buddha watch with sorrow, How my tears erupt from the tainted grounds, How Mingun crumbles with heartache, How Mogok Hills now ...