Myanmar is known as the Land of the Golden Pagoda. It is famous for its gold-covered temples like the Shwedagon Pagoda in ...

YANGON, Myanmar - The Shwedagon Pagoda, or Golden Pagoda, is the largest and most striking temple in a land dotted with thousands of Buddhist temples. An Englishman visiting the pagoda in 1586 called ...

YANGON, Myanmar — Gongs chimed as thousands of people in ceremonial costumes walked barefoot Wednesday through the marble walkways of Myanmar’s most sacred Buddhist shrine in an annual festival that ...

YANGON, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Shwedagon Pagoda, known as the Golden Pagoda in Myanmar, attracted over 5.89 million visitors in the first 10 months of this year, U Boe Thin, a member of the Shwedagon ...

The Shwedagon Pagoda ( gilded pagoda and stupa located in Yangon, Burma. The pagoda lies to the west of Kandawgyi Lake, on Singuttara Hill, thus dominating the skyline of the city. It is the most ...

YANGON (Xinhua): The Shwedagon Pagoda, also known as the Golden Pagoda in Myanmar, attracted over 4.65 million visitors in the first eight months of this year, U Boe Thin, a member of the Shwedagon ...

YANGON, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's famed Shwedagon Pagoda attracted 440,917 local and foreign visitors in July this year, the state-run Myanmar Radio and Television reported on Tuesday, citing the ...

Thousands of Buddhist devotees gathered at Myanmar's Shwedagon pagoda on Wednesday to mark the Buddha's birthday and to water a sacred Bodhi tree believed to be linked to his enlightenment. Crowds ...