Mahamuni Pagoda Festival

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About Mahamuni Pagoda Festival

On the full moon day of Thabodwe, Mahamuni Pagoda Festival is celebrated. This festival usually lasts for 2 days. At pagoda's stage Glutinous rice contests is also performed. An assortment of incense sticks are scorched for the Myanmar Buddha image on the full moon day. During this festival a great many individuals from everywhere throughout the nation make the journey to the Mahamuni Pagoda. The sanctuary is always the center of activities and during this celebration it detonates with vitality. It is celebrated around the Mahamuni Pagoda which is a Buddhist sanctuary and significant journey site, found southwest of Mandalay, Myanmar.

The Mahamuni Buddha image is idolized in this sanctuary, and initially originated from Arakan. It is highly worshiped in Burma and fundamental to numerous individuals' lives, as it is viewed as a declaration of speaking to the Buddha's life. Antiquated custom alludes to just five resemblances of the Buddha, made during his lifetime; two were in India, two in paradise, and the fifth is the Mahamuni Buddha picture in Myanmar. As indicated by the legend, the Buddha went by the Dhanyawadi city of Arakan in 554 BC. Lord Sanda Thuriya asked for that a picture was thrown of him. From that point the image became the exact likeness of the Mahamuni.

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