Maha Thetkya Yanthi Buddha

Maha Thetkya Yanthi Buddha (Burmese: မဟာသကျရံသီ ရုပ်ရှင်တော်မြတ်ကြီး); Pali: Mahāsakyaraṃsi) is a Buddhist temple in Ottarathiri Township, Naypyidaw Union Territory, Myanmar that houses a 32-foot (9.8 m) marble image of the standing Buddha that weighs 700 tonnes (690 long tons; 770 short tons).[1][2] The marble was sourced from a quarry 375 miles (604 km) north in Mandalay.[3] The image was enshrined on 20 June 2015 in the Gandhakuṭi Pavilion (ဂန္ဓကုဋိကျောင်းဆောင်). Construction efforts were undertaken by ACE Construction Group, owned by Tint Hsan.

Maha Thetkya Yanthi Buddha
Mahāsakyaraṃsi
မဟာသကျရံသီ ရုပ်ရှင်တော်မြတ်ကြီး
Religion
AffiliationTheravada Buddhism
Location
CountryOttarathiri Township, Naypyidaw, Myanmar
Geographic coordinates19.868934°N 96.140135°E / 19.868934; 96.140135
Architecture
FounderNaypyidaw Development Committee
Completed2015 (2015)

See also

References

  1. "Standing Buddha – Mahasakyaransi" (in French). Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  2. "မဟာသကျရံသီ ရုပ်ရှင်တော်မြတ်ကြီး". Naypyitaw Development Committee (in Burmese). Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  3. "မဟာသကျရံသီဘုရား". ACE Construction Group. Retrieved 27 October 2018.


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