Kyauktawgyi Pagoda Yangon

This is one of the biggest marble Buddha Images in Yangon Myanmar with a height of 37ft (11m) and a weight of weighs over 600 tons. The classical name of this Image is Lawkachantha Abaya Labamuni, meaning World Peace and Prosperity. This Sitting Buddha Image is curved out from a single marble stone. The giant stone was found in the Sakyin region, Medaya Township in Mandalay Division. The draft sculpture was carried through the Ayeyarwaddy river down to Yangon. Then it was finally touched up. The sculpting and the enshrining got completed in 2008 and located in Insein, Yangon.

The platform of Kyauktawgyi Buddha Image

Stairways to Kyauktawgyi Buddha Image

Kyauktawgyi Pagoda – Yangon Myanmar

(Source: myanmars.net)