Kyaung Dawyar and Shwesetdaw
Kyaung Dawyar and Shwesetdaw (Legend and Curiosity)
The most magical way to explore Burman culture and the deep devotion to Lord Gautama Buddha, is to follow the important pilgrimage routes. Most Burmans will, at least once during their lifetime, pay homage at the shrines of Kyaung Dawyar and at Buddha’s footprints at Shwesetdaw.
Legend tells us that Kyaung Dawyar was visited by Lord Gautama Buddha himself. He is said to have stayed there for a week, teaching the local people about his lives and Dhamma (Buddhist teachings or philosophy). The pagoda, which graces the Mon River bank, was built to commemorate His visit. On His return journey to northern India, he stopped at Shwesetdaw on the bank of the Mon River, in the domain of the ruthless hunter Bandaka. Bandaka is said to have been inspired by Buddha’s teachings to become a monk, and entreated Buddha to leave his footprint as a memento of his visit and a gift for the King of Naga.
Kyaung Dawyar Pagoda is an important pilgrimage site, not only for humans, but also for giant river catfish (rita rita)! They arrive to the Mon River during Buddhist lent – July to September – and stay for the duration. People genuinely believe that they come to pay homage to the Buddha. They appear on the full moon day of Waso (4th month of the Myanmar calendar) and vanish after the full moon day of Thidinkyut (7th month of the Myanmar calendar). Human pilgrims feed them popcorn, rice cakes and dried bread.
Although the fish pilgrimage legend is delightful, in fact, more research is needed into the reasons for their well-timed visit to coincide with lent. Zoologists from the University of Yangon theorized that during the rainy season the Mon River might contain more nutrients than the Irrawaddy River, which rises higher and flows faster. This would explain the migration from the Irrawaddy to the Mon River during the from during the monsoons, and the return when the water recedes. However, in recent years, sadly, the number of pilgrim fish has been reduced to almost zero. The pollution and overfishing are possible factors that lessen the giant river catfish le. To learn more please refer to https://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=51,4502,0,0,1,0.
Located between the Mon creek and the Irrawaddy River, 180 km south of Bagan, Kyaung Dawyar is an important rice growing region, greener than other parts of central Myanmar. Magnificent 18th and 19th centuries wooden monasteries are to be found there, run by honorable monks. Shwesetdaw Pagoda is a 3 hour drive from Kyaungdawyar, deep in the Chin Hills. The area is located in the midst of the natural habitat of the rare, endangered Eld’s deer, for which a wildlife sanctuary is maintained. The Shwesetdaw Pagoda festival takes place in February and March.
Curiously, there are many fossils in the mountain range that surrounds the pagoda. It’s just one more fascinating oddity that makes this area well worth exploring.
Shwesetdaw Buddha footprint
photo credit goes to ASEAN Youth Organization Facebook page
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One day ,I’m gonna travel the hole country✌️
Anyway thank u so much for sharing 🙂
Was
I have been to Shwe Setdaw 3 times and I want to go again. I really like Sam Chaung, One day ,I’m gonna travel the hole country.
I want to go to rural areas like villages in Kachin, Karenni, and Kayin so badly. I hope to go after the revolution and help the people then.
One of our valuable historical religious sites. Thank you very much.
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I have not been kyangdawyar but oneday I will visit that place
Thz 4 sharing and
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I never been there. My mom said that grandmom’s relatives are living there.
When I see a catfish, smile abit.
My parent of parent are living there😀😀😀
That means your grandparents. 🙂
great
I have never been there before.
It’s interesting. Is this sharing about Shwesetdaw in Minbu township ???
This place nearly my hometown, But I’ve never been there.
There is a interesting mythology story of Shwesetdaw.
အားးး လွမ်းလိုက်တာကွာ
အရင်တုန်းက ရောက်ဖူးပေမယ့် ခံစားချက်ပဲကျန်တယ် မမှတ်မိတော့ဘူး
Thanks a lot.
ထပ်သွားချင်သေးတယ်။
Thanks a lot.
Thanks for sharing.
Nostalgia hits hard.
This is a knowledgeable article.
Great Article
Have been there twice
Such a good place
Thanks for this great post!
I didn’t even remember if I’ve been to there or not.Wanna go there and pay homage.
May 21
interesting article
Thanks
If you talk about Myanmar, it won’t be complete without mention Kyaung Dawyar and Shwesetdaw. Thanks for valuable information you gather about it’s legend and attractiveness.
It’s interesting. Is this sharing about Shwesetdaw in Minbu township ???
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Nice article
Happy Sunday!
I want to go there😢
Wanna go there
မွေးရပ်မြေကိုလွမ်းတယ်
Good New
Nice place
I haven’t been there before.I just have heard about this.Hope to have a chance to visit once.
Thanks for your sharing.
Have a Onederful Day!
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may 23
Sometime, we must visit such as wonderful historical places.
thanks for knowledge
Myanmar is a wonderful country, attracting every year more and more tourists indeed.
One day ,I’m gonna travel the hole country😘I’m not happy
Shwesetdaw 🍅
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Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for everything
Precious & beautiful places for myanmar peoples.
Wanna go
nice place
Thanks
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing
Ok
I wanna go there
I have not been there. Wanna to visit.
I would kike to go there
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မအလ တွေ ပြုတ်ရင်တော့ သွားရဦးအုံးမယ်
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Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing knowledge.
Knowledgeable
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pray to Shwesattaw Pagoda
thanks for this post
May 31!
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Good to see you all
Very interesting topic ! Thanks for sharing !
Thanks for sharing knowledge
One day ,I’m gonna travel the hole country✌️One day ,I’m gonna travel the hole country✌️
One day ,I’m gonna travel the hole country✌️
One day the houle
အရှုံးမပေးသ၍ ငါတို့မရှုံးဘူး Stay_Strong💪💪💪
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KyaungDawYar
Kyaung Dawyar Pagoda is an important pilgrimage site, not only for humans, but also for giant river catfish (rita rita).
Thanks you all!
သေချင်းဇိုး မအလနဲ့ လပ်တီး အမြန်ဆုံးကျဆုံးပါစေ
အားမလျှော့နဲ့ရလုပီ ကြိုးစား ထောက်ပို့ ပါမည်💪💪💪💪💪
ဘယ်တော့မှအရှုံးမပေးဘူးဟေ့
knowledgeable article
We win unless we don’t give up.
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မြန်မာပြည်ရဲ့လူတန်းစားမရွေး နှစ်သက် အေးချမ်းစေနဲ့နေရာတစ်ခုပါ
I hope I can visit it more often to relive those days with my family 💜
I want visit
Interesting place.
Done.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks a million!
Have ro go after that shit
Lovrly place
God among us
God country
Paceful 🍅
This is really good!
Nice article
Once been there. Really Wonderful and beautiful. Sublime art
Will go them after my school
One day……
အိုင်ယာလန် ကနေ ကလစ်နေပါတယ်။ အကြောင်းအရာ အသစ်တွေလည်း တင်ပါဦး။ ပြည်တွင်းမှာ ခရီးသွားလည်ပတ်လို့ စိတ်ဝင်စားဖို့ ကောင်းတဲ့မနရာတွေ ပေါ့။ အများလည်း ကြိုက်မယ်ထင်ပါတယ်။
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အုတ်တစ်ချပ် သဲတစ်ပွင့် ဖြစ်ဖို့
နေ့တိုင်း ကလစ်နေပါတယ်
miss there😔
Wanna visit
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သဲတပွင့်ဖြစ်ပါရစေ
Thanks
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အုတ်တစ်ချပ် သဲတစ်ပွင့်အနေနဲ့ ကြိုးစားလျက်ပါ
Nice post
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Never give up
မအလိုး မအလ
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Fight for future
Good knowledge
စိတ်နာနာနဲဆက်ကလစ ်မယ်
အချိန်တိုင်းစဥ်းစားတယ်ငါတို့ဒီ၂နှစ်ဟာအရင်နှစ်တွေကလိုအေးဆေးစွာဖျက်သန်းခဲ့ရင်ငါတို့ကလေးလေးတွေနေရာတိုင်းမှာအပြုံးကိုစီတွေမြင်ရမှာဘဲဆိုပြီးတွေးပြီမျက်ရည်ကျမိတယ်
မအလ မင်းအောင်လှိုင်
ရောက်ဖူးသေးဘူး
our last visit to there was April, 2020. 🙂
အရေးတော်ပုံအောင်နေပီ💪💪💪
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I will go there
အဓိပ္ပာယ်ရှိတဲ့ ကလစ်တစ်ချက် ကလစ်လို့ပေးလိုက်ပါ။ မေတ္တာများဖြင့်ကလစ်တစ်ချက်ဟာ တော်လှန်ရေးအတွက်များစွာအထောက်အကူဖြစ်ပါတယ်။
သိပ်လှတဲ့မြန်ပြည်တစ်ခွင်ကို အရေးတော်ပုံအောင်ပြီးရင်လျှောက်သွားမယ်မင်မင် ခေါ်ရမလား
ခုတော့ တော်လှန်နိုင်ဖို့ ကြိုးစားကလစ်မယ်
june 18
at least I can smile when i see catfish pic.
Wanna visit one day
Thanks for sharing.
Go after all agreed with the company that the money for my burmese friend
General rule the immediacy of answering questions
“I want to go everywhere one day when there is peace. We have so many things to do in Burma. “
Democracy
အဆုံးသတ် တိုက်ပွဲ
ဒိပွဲက ငါတို့နိုင်မှ ဖြစ်မယ်…ငါတို့ရဲ့မျိုးဆက်တွေအတွက် ငါတို့အတွက် ရင်းနှီးသွားကျရတဲ့ တိုင်းရင်းသား ညီအစ်ကိုမောင်နှမ များအတွက် ငါတို့ နိုင်အောင်တိုက်ထုတ်ရမယ် စစ်အာဏာရှင် စနစ်ဆိုးကို မြန်မာမြေပေါ်ကနေ✊💪✊💪✊💪
Fighting to fighting.
Real True Man
နိုင်ရာတာဝန်တွေအတူတူထမ်းဆောင်ရင်းရှေ့ဆက်သွားကြပါစို့ဘယ်တော့မှအရှုံးမပေးဘူးအဆုံးထိတိုက်သွားကြမယ်
We will fight till the end 🤘
ဓမ္မ ဘက်တော်သားများဘေးကင်းကြပါစေ။ကြံတိုင်းအောင်ပါစေ။ဆောင်တိုင်းမြောက်ပါစေ။အောင်ပွဲဝင်ကြပါစေ။အောင်ကြပါစေ။အောင်ကြပါစေ။🙏🙏🙏
2022Jun24
3:23pm
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We will win✊
Fighting 💪
Like this.
The land of legends but it’s ok.
Omm..done💪
Many Thanks!
Thanks for your article.
Done ✊✊👊
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I don’t know if i will go there.
This is good!
Nice