{"id":1814,"date":"2017-10-28T10:30:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T08:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/?page_id=1814"},"modified":"2017-11-18T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T11:25:37","slug":"shwedagon-pagoda","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/gb\/2016-2\/myanmar-march\/yangon\/shwedagon-pagoda","title":{"rendered":"Shwedagon Pagoda"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a rest from the busy day, the girls have found out their burmese birthday zodiac by visiting the Sule Pagoda in the meanwhile and got it introduced by a pagoda volunteer, we visit the Shwedagon Pagoda, the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar, in the dusk.<\/p>\n

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\nShwedagon Pagoda built between 6th and 10th centuary. The Landmark of Yangon<\/p>\n

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One has her birthday on Wednesday evening, and the other on Friday. The Burmese zodiac has eight days a week, the Wednesday is split into Wednesday morning (up to 12am) and Wednesday evening (after 12am), according to the planets Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Rahu. There is Ketu, the King of all planets, but it is not included in the zodiac.<\/p>\n

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There are eight planetary posts with Buddha resides over its representing animals: Garuda, tiger, lion, tusked elephant, tuskless elephant, mouse, guinea pig and naga, placed around the Shwedagon Stupa. Each Burmese knows his zodiac and offers flowers, flags, pour water over the residing Buddha and the animal of their post, and prays for his fortune.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Friday \/ Guinea pig shrine<\/p>\n

Also, it is customary to circumnavigate the Stupa in a clockwise direction. We do it twice for the double happiness…<\/p>\n

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An impressive evening. We are devoted.<\/p>\n

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After a rest from the busy day, the girls have found out their burmese birthday zodiac by visiting the Sule Pagoda in the meanwhile and got it introduced by a pagoda volunteer, we visit the Shwedagon Pagoda, the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar, in the dusk. Shwedagon Pagoda built between 6th and 10th centuary. … Continue reading “Shwedagon Pagoda”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":288,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1814","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"gb","enabled_languages":["de","gb"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"gb":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373,"href":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1814\/revisions\/2373"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}