by ftainturier | Mar 13, 2019 | Field Note - Yangon, Photo(s) or Illustration(s)
Description Although the site of Yangon (formerly Rangoon) emerged in very early times as a pilgrimage center and port along the trade routes of the Gulf of Bengal, it is really in the aftermath of the Annexation of Lower Burma under the British Indian authorities...
by tnpatton | Mar 12, 2019 | Field Note - Yangon, Photo(s) or Illustration(s)
Description The hairs on the back of my neck stood on end when I came across these life-sized wax statues of these wizard-monks who lived in the early half of the 20th century. I had come to this temple complex to find magical diagrams that had been copied from 18th...
