Thingaza Kyaung

Mandalay


This appealingly lived-in monastery has some photogenically dilapidated teak buildings. Tucked behind the tagondain (pillar topped with a golden duck) is a shaded open-air trio of sinuous buddha figures that have been weathered into almost abstract ghosts.


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