Category Archives: Buddhism

Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda At Night

Posted on 2018-08-15 by

Previous Post: Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda – The Golden Heart of Myanmar During my one week’s stay in Yangon, I visited the Shwedagon three times, once in the late morning and twice in the late afternoon.  While there is no bad … Continue reading →

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The Chinese Temple Murals And Statues of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum

Posted on 2017-11-30 by

The Royal Ontario Museum’s Bishop White Gallery is a corner of the museum I have visited often over the past forty years. It houses a world-renowned collection of Chinese temple murals and Buddhist and Taoist statuary,  most of which date … Continue reading →

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Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda – The Golden Heart of Myanmar

Posted on 2017-06-07 by

Previous Post: Mingalaba From Myanmar – Land of the Golden Pagodas If you visit Myanmar (formerly called Burma), you will probably be starting off in its largest city, the business and cultural capital Yangon (Rangoon to the British).  At the … Continue reading →

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Yangon’s Botahtaung Paya and the Buddha’s Hair Relic

Posted on 2016-08-31 by

Previous Post: Sule Paya – the Stupa At The Heart of Yangon An OOPS moment – this post is not quite done! I was working on it just before we set off on our 15-day canoe trip down Quebec’s Coulonge River and … Continue reading →

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The Aukana Buddha: Sri Lanka’s Colossal Standing Rock Statue

Posted on 2016-05-17 by

Previous Post: A Visit To The Ruins Of Polonnaruwa – Part Two The previous day I had visited the ruins of Polonnaruwa, the capital of a short-lived Sinhalese kingdom which flourished for less than two hundred years until an invading army from India … Continue reading →

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