BURMA

BANBANGYI, PAYAGYI AND PAYAMA PAGODAS

All had convex, domical outlines, a shape displaced in the great Burnese building period which
began in the eleventh century by what is now regarded as the characteristics, concave bell-shaped
stupas of the region.
MINGALAZEDI STUPA, PAGAN
Comprises a high square plinth of three stepped terraces, with a stairways in the centre of each
side leading to the platform, from which the circular bell-shaped main structures uses.
SHWE DAGON PAGODA (STUPA), RANGOON
Built over older foundations and added to many times, reflects Burmas cultural connections
with India and China, while expressing the exuberance typical of later phases of Burmese art.
The supporting plinth is multiplaned, its many angles bearing miniature pagodas, the
processional platform crowded with carved, glided and lacquered shrines and spirelets.
ABHAYADANA, SOUTH OF PAGAN
The entrance to the vestibule is through an arch with a single ring of voussoirs. The brick
building is coated in stucco and pilasters reinforce its corners; windows are characteristic with plastered
jambs, decorative pediments and regularly perforated stone or brick plate filling to the opening.
ANANDA TEMPLE, PAGAN
The supreme attainment of Burnese Classical architecture. It is a massive white brick building,
with finely graduated tiered roofs and, projecting on each side, elaborately decorated portico entrances
which give the temple the plan-form of a Greek cross.
KYAUKKU TEMPLE
The ground-floor arches with wide pilasters rising to a continuos frieze made an unusual base to
the upper levels, which rose successively to the central mass of the stupa.










MINGALAZEDI STUPA, PAGAN SHWE DAGON
PAGODA (STUPA), RANGOON









ABHAYADANA TEMPLE ANANDA
TEMPLE, PAGAN








ANANDA TEMPLE, PAGAN
KYAUKKU TEMPLE