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MODERN BUDDHISM. in Burmah. But we must not omit to mention the great
collection of pagodas at Pagahn, the deserted Pagahn.
agann. capital on the Irrawaddy, extending for eight miles along the bank and for two miles inland. Colonel Yule, in his “Mission to Ava," has described them in detail. Some are cruciform vaulted temples, with great galleries and transepts, and remind visitors of old-world cathedrals; others have minarets, pyramids of fretwork; some are like huge bulbous mushrooms. It is said that there are nearly ten thousand more or less complete, but
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ruin is on many, and jungle-bushes have overgrown them. Very many contain colossal figures of Buddha and sculptured groups. Again, Shway Goo, an island between Mandalay and Bhamo, is a great centre of temples, having nine hundred and ninety-nine.
Thus we may gather some faint idea how deeply the belief in securing merit by building a pagoda has entered
Burmese into the nature of the Burmese; but, says worship. Shway Yoe, they are not idolaters; they worship neither relics nor images. The pagoda and the figure
