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Modern · Buddhist · Myanmar
Kuthodaw Pagoda
Mandalay, Mandalay · 22.0047°, 96.1129°
Gautama Buddha (Theravada)Mindon Min (19th c.)—
Sacred since
1860 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
1860-1868 (Mindon Min)
Mindon Min (19th c.)
History & significance
A stupa and inscription complex at the foot of Mandalay Hill begun by King Mindon Min in 1860, its 57-metre main stupa modelled on the Shwezigon at Nyaung-U. Its 729 marble slabs, each housed in a small shrine, carry the Tipitaka in stone and are often called the world's largest book; they were opened to the public in 1868 and served the Fifth Buddhist Synod.