🇲🇲Shwezigon Pagoda of Bagan has an interesting legend. It's built by King Anawrahta, the founder of the great Pagan Dynasty in the 11th century.
According to the legend, King Anawrahta selected the site for building this pagoda by sending a white elephant mounted with a frontal bone relic of the Buddha to roam freely with the declaration that wherever the elephant stopped would be the site for building the pagoda. The elephant finally stopped over a dune which was chosen as the site for erecting the pagoda, and hence the name Shewzigon pagoda meaning "pagoda on a dune" in Burmese.
It looks really golden, but the monetary value is quite different from Shwedagon in Yangon. This is covered by copper, not gold.
One can easily get pagoda overdosed in ancient city Bagan, as it has thousands of 8 to 10 centuries old stupas and temples all over the place. But this gigantic golden structure is indeed quite impressive @ Bagan, Myanmar
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