Loka-Hteik-Pan

Built in the reign of Kyanzittha’s successor, Sithu I, “Loka-hteik-pan” (also known as Lawka Hteik Pan) means “adorning the top of the world”. This temple has a special exemplary status in Burmese Sacred art. The painters of the early twelfth-century, closely followed Indian literary sources or an Indian model to capture this cosmology as it was revealed through certain events in the life of the Buddha.

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