chief archaeologist of Pagan’s breathtaking 1,000-year-old Buddhist temples, points out an enormous pentagonal pyramid sparkling in the morning sunlight, dominating this arid central Burma plain ...

The temple was originally built to house two jade statues brought in from Burma. But over time ... the temple is one of Shanghai's few active Buddhist monasteries, so many monks call this place ...

And the Buddhist shrine, with its attendant ... symbolizing the life of ascetic renunciation. And many a Burmese will see in his temple’s over-all form the person of the Buddha seated in ...

Myanmar's religious temples stood as symbols of faith and history. After the recent 7.7 magnitude earthquake, many are ...