Dhammayan Gyi Temple

The biggest in Bagan

I like this temple look outside very nice.Dislike inside have bad smell of bird excrementthe side walk not clean either full of bird exc.Normally very temple have 4 side of Buddha but this one have only 2 side coz 18th century had earth quack and the ceiling fell down.the government have to close by cement plaster on the two side.Just stay outside have nice photo then go to another pagoda.

The smell of the droppings are quite overwhelming sometimes. Other than that, the corridors give good photographic opportunities, if you take advantage of the darkness and the light streaming in from the openings.Just as you enter the 2 buddhas chamber, the rock with the X grooves is located at the right of the entrance. It is said that workers' hands are cut off using this rock whenever their work did not meet the king's satisfaction.There are also paintings on the walls which requires some effort to make out in the dark corridors. There's one where you can take the stairs upwards to have a better view.It's a pity that visitors are not allowed to climb up the top floors. Nevertheless, still worth a visit!

This temple, with its high ceilings and bricked-off passageways is stunning. Just watch where you step as you walk inside the temple with your bare feet. It is home to bats, pigeons, and various other birds who leave their offerings in front of the many Buddha statues there.It is the only temple with two Buddhas sitting side by side, apparently erected as an offering to atone for an evil king's sins after he smothered his father and brother and executed his wife, an Indian princess.The work on the temple had to be so perfect that if a worker left a pin-sized gap in between his bricks his arm was severed on one of the stones with arm-shaped grooves at the temple. A strange form of atonement!

I like this temple look outside very nice.Dislike inside have bad smell of bird excrementthe side walk not clean either full of bird exc.Normally very temple have 4 side of Buddha but this one have only 2 side coz 18th century had earth quack and the ceiling fell down.the government have to close by cement plaster on the two side.Just stay outside have nice photo then go to another pagoda.

The biggest in Bagan