Shwedagon Pagoda and the Pink Nuns
December 30th 2016 Shwedagon Pagoda, with its surfeit of gold, and plethora of Buddhas can be dizzying. Best to start small.
The history
Legend has it that two traders from Burma took 500 bullock carts full of goods to India. There they met Gautama Buddha as he was meditating under a bodhi tree. Even though Guatama had not yet been revealed as The Enlightened One, the brothers recognized him and gave him a gift of
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