INLE LAKE, Myanmar (AP) — Hundreds of waterborne spectators gathered Friday to watch boat races on Myanmar’s Inle Lake, the highlight of the annual Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival. The festival, held on ...

Spiraling towers shrouded in green foliage and crumbling, copper-colored Buddha statues: welcome to the village of Indein in Myanmar, home to a series of centuries-old, beautiful pagodas. French ...

Myanmar has been spending a great deal of its resources on pagodas (consisting of stupas and their surrounding enclosures) and temples (places for meditation called Ku's) as well as on the new capitol ...

Gerdts, William H. and Deborah Epstein Solon, "East Coast / West Coast and Beyond: Colin Campbell Cooper - American Impressionist," New York: Hudson Hills Press (Laguna Art Museum), 2006, no. 32.

Myanmar is known as the Land of the Golden Pagoda. It is famous for its gold-covered temples like the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. Discover why pagodas are golden, their cultural meaning, and how they ...