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White Buddha statue scene with the grass represents when the Buddha was born. Buddha Shakyamuni was born as a royal prince in 624 BC in a place called Lumbini, in what is now Nepal.

Sima Boundary marker that designates the eastern boundary of the temple, consecrated the auspicious date of 7/7/07.

This standing statue has the name Miss Bakly Angeline (Bakly Sithor) engraved on the pedestal.

The stupa

Multicolored LED lights concentrically ring the high ceiling of the upper level of the stupa. The lights represent the state (or path to) enlightenment and Nirvana.

The group of statues refers to the story of Sujãtã, a daughter of a rich man, who prayed to the tree-spirit of the Bodhi tree to have her first child be a son.1 Sujãtã's prayer was fulfilled, and she sent her maid to the Bodhi tree to clean up the…

View looking west from the Watt Munisotaram of the surrounding farmland.

One of the kyuaksa or Burmese alphabet inscriptions at the Kuthodaw Pagoda, Mandalay, Myanmar. The entire Tipitaka Pali canon is set on 729 marble slabs, and each stone is housed in a kyauksa gu or a small cave-like stupa. (unedited)

The two Buddhas in the upper sanctuary both are performing the Bhumisparsha mudra.