Religious Affairs: Senior General Visits Monasteries and Pagoda in Mandalay

Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing paid respects to Bhamo Sayadaw, Chairman of the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee and Presiding Nayaka of Bhamo Monastery on Wednesday.

At the Monastery in Mahaaungmye Township of Mandalay Region, the Senior General offered eight kinds of prerequisites, cash for nine prerequisites, 100 bags of rice, 10 bags of gram, 100 visses of edible oil, nutritious foodstuffs and medicines donated by families of the Tatmadaw (Army, Navy and Air) to Bhamo Sayadaw.

Members of the State Administration Council and Union ministers also donated alms to members of the Sangha. To the Sayadaw, the Senior General supplicated efforts for building Maravijaya Buddha Image in the Buddha Park of Dekkhinathiri Township in Nay Pyi Taw with the aim of showing the firmly flourishing of Theravada Buddha Sasana of Myanmar to the world, ensuring peace and stability of the nation, helping the region develop through visits of the local and foreign travellers to the Buddha image and contributing to the development of the country, stone inscriptions on Pitaka treatises, translating and publishing the Tri Pitaka treatises in Pali to English and arrangements for carving the stone inscriptions on Tri Pitaka treatises in Pali and English.

Also, at Maha Wizitayon Monastery in Chanayethazan Township, the Senior General and party paid respects to Presiding Nayaka of the monastery and offered eight kinds of prerequisites, cash for nine prerequisites, 20 bags of rice, five bags of gram, 50 visses of edible oil, foodstuffs and medicines donated by families of the Tatmadaw (Army, Navy and Air) to the Sayadaw.

The Senior General also paid homage to the Buddha image at Maha Lawkamarazein Kuthodaw Pagoda and donated cash to the fund. There, the Senior General stressed the need to systematically maintain the pagoda. The pagoda was built by King Mindon who came onto the throne in 1852.

There are 729 stone plaques at the pagoda and these inscriptions were carved in 1868. In 2013, these plaques were recognized as the Worlds’ Largest Book by UNESCO.