Statue of Gautama Buddha (Myanmar)
ထိုင်တော်မူ ဂေါတမဗုဒ္ဓ ရုပ်ပွားတော်ဘုရားကြီး | |
 Statue of Gautama Buddha | |
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| 17°19′06″N 97°01′41″E / 17.3183733°N 97.0281018°E | |
| Location | Kyaikto, Myanmar |
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| Type | Buddha statue |
| Height | 255.5 ft (77.9 m) |
| Completion date | 2019 |
| Opening date | April 7, 2019 |
| Dedicated to | Buddha |
The Statue of Gautama Buddha (Burmese: ထိုင်တော်မူ ဂေါတမဗုဒ္ဓ ရုပ်ပွားတော်ဘုရားကြီး) is a 255.5 ft (77.9 m) seated statue in Kyaikto, a city in Mon State, Myanmar.[1] The opening ceremony for the completed statue was held on April 6–7th, 2019, which also coincided with Myanmar's Buddha's Birthday festival.[2]
The statue's pagoda has seventeen floors, and the height of 255 feet and 6 inches was specifically chosen because the statue was set to be completed in the Buddhist calendar year of 2556.[1] The pagoda includes an elevator as well as a cooking area that provides free meals to pilgrims to the statue.[3]
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[edit]- ^ a b မြင့်, ဘိုဘို (March 4, 2019). "ကမ္ဘာ့အကြီးဆုံးထိုင်တော်မူ ဗုဒ္ဓရုပ်ပွားတော်ဖြစ်လာမည့် ဂေါတမဗုဒ္ဓရုပ်တုတည်ဆောက်မှု ရာခိုင်နှုန်း ၉၀ ကျော် ပြီးစီးနေပြီး လာမည့်ဧပြီလဆန်းတွင် ဗုဒ္ဓါဘိသေကအနေကဇာတင်ပွဲ ကျင်းပမည်" [More than 90 percent of the construction of the Gautama Buddha statue, which will become the world's largest seated Buddha statue, has been completed, and the Buddha Abhishe will be inaugurated in early April.]. Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). Archived from the original on March 24, 2020. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
- ^ မြင့်, ဘိုဘို (April 8, 2019). "မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် အကြီးဆုံး ထိုင်တော်မူ ဗုဒ္ဓရုပ်ပွားတော်ကြီးဖြစ်သည့် ဂေါတမဗုဒ္ဓဘုရားကြီး ဌာပနာတော် သွင်းပူဇော်ပွဲနှင့် ဗုဒ္ဓါဘိသေကအနေကဇာတင်ပွဲ ကျိုက်ထိုမြို့တွင် ကျင်းပ" [The offering ceremony of Gautama Buddha, which is the largest reclining Buddha statue in Myanmar, and the birth ceremony of the Buddha were held in Kyaikta.]. Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). Archived from the original on September 30, 2022. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
- ^ Soe, Kyaw Htike (January 14, 2019). "Construction of gigantic sitting Buddha statue nearly complete". Myanmar Digital News. Archived from the original on September 30, 2022. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
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