Are interested me and half the small statues of marble. "Probably, they are very old?" - I ask of the abbot. He whistle me to the window and points to a nearby hill. Throughout his passes slope collapse. It turns out that the top of the hill when it was crowned with an ancient pagoda. Over time, it collapsed, and the land taken into their fold sacred wreckage. Recently, a landslide occurred, exposing the ancient relics, which are now kept in the monastery.
I remember the legend of the most sacred statue of Buddha of Arakan, which is called the Maha Muni - the great sage, a saint. After achieving enlightenment more than two and a half thousand years ago, among other lands, visited the Buddha and the Arakan kingdom. They then of King Sandasuriya. The name that means "the moon and the sun." King-sun Pray enlightened allow otlit pure bronze almost chetyrehmetrovoe image. Since then, Arakan, stored as the Buddha, has flourished for centuries.
According to legend, in the Arakan kingdom was built more than 6 million pagodas. In each of them dozens of Buddha images. Arakan Therefore we can call the land a hundred million Buddhas.
But in 1784 the Kingdom was captured by the Burmese and attached to the Burma Empire. Bronze Buddha is taken away in the capital conqueror.
The statue now located in the former prestolnom City, in Mandalay. Her foot is always hundreds of worshipers. Maha Muni temple atmosphere permeated religious ecstasy, as in the storm the air is saturated with ozone. The entire surface of the statue, except for face, covered with golden cocoons, praying all the add and add the gold plates, rather than the plate, and subtle gold stripes. Buddha reminds cocoon of a butterfly unknown, beautiful which can not be anything in the world. When I shared with her memories of the prior of litsezrenii in Mandalay Maha Muni, he just smiled mysteriously. After a rather long silence the monk said: "Do you know that true Maha Muni was not taken out the Burmese, and remained in Arakane?" To my surprise the question, but where is this statue is now kept, the monk did not answer. Someone called from the depths of his cell, and the abbot left.
In the head, I had the sudden thought: I do not whether an ancient relic hidden in the monastery? I took sight of the altar and looked up at the door. It seemed to me that in the sanctuary, making the statue, muffled in a black veil. Alas, the obsession lasted for a fraction of a second and I saw that overstepped the threshold of a young Muslim woman, all in black. She came to the monastery for a tour.
Soon, the abbot is back and I learned that during his stay in Arakane Buddha made a prophecy that his statue will be located in Arakan Kingdom 5 thousand years. So the Maha Muni resides somewhere Arakane. And where exactly is still unknown.
Maung Ba held me on the hills, the snow-white with a bluish tint pagoda, which I saw from the plane. Well, that although they would not have been a mirage. From the height of Cox's Bazar town, seemed to garden. Tropical greens hid poor shacks and dusty streets, put them emerald blanket.
A young monk Sando Bata, with whom I met in the monastery, told me that Cox's Bazar have Arakan title: Phalaunschey, which means "place porosshee roses" - in other words, rosary. Very poetic. I asked Sando Bata, how would I go in Arakan village? "It's very simple. Tomorrow I will be able to escort you. I will simply say that you prefer: to go to the mountains, in Ramah, or on the island of Moheshkhali? - Said the monk. I chose the island. We ride on the sea.
I remember the legend of the most sacred statue of Buddha of Arakan, which is called the Maha Muni - the great sage, a saint. After achieving enlightenment more than two and a half thousand years ago, among other lands, visited the Buddha and the Arakan kingdom. They then of King Sandasuriya. The name that means "the moon and the sun." King-sun Pray enlightened allow otlit pure bronze almost chetyrehmetrovoe image. Since then, Arakan, stored as the Buddha, has flourished for centuries.
According to legend, in the Arakan kingdom was built more than 6 million pagodas. In each of them dozens of Buddha images. Arakan Therefore we can call the land a hundred million Buddhas.
But in 1784 the Kingdom was captured by the Burmese and attached to the Burma Empire. Bronze Buddha is taken away in the capital conqueror.
The statue now located in the former prestolnom City, in Mandalay. Her foot is always hundreds of worshipers. Maha Muni temple atmosphere permeated religious ecstasy, as in the storm the air is saturated with ozone. The entire surface of the statue, except for face, covered with golden cocoons, praying all the add and add the gold plates, rather than the plate, and subtle gold stripes. Buddha reminds cocoon of a butterfly unknown, beautiful which can not be anything in the world. When I shared with her memories of the prior of litsezrenii in Mandalay Maha Muni, he just smiled mysteriously. After a rather long silence the monk said: "Do you know that true Maha Muni was not taken out the Burmese, and remained in Arakane?" To my surprise the question, but where is this statue is now kept, the monk did not answer. Someone called from the depths of his cell, and the abbot left.
In the head, I had the sudden thought: I do not whether an ancient relic hidden in the monastery? I took sight of the altar and looked up at the door. It seemed to me that in the sanctuary, making the statue, muffled in a black veil. Alas, the obsession lasted for a fraction of a second and I saw that overstepped the threshold of a young Muslim woman, all in black. She came to the monastery for a tour.
Soon, the abbot is back and I learned that during his stay in Arakane Buddha made a prophecy that his statue will be located in Arakan Kingdom 5 thousand years. So the Maha Muni resides somewhere Arakane. And where exactly is still unknown.
Maung Ba held me on the hills, the snow-white with a bluish tint pagoda, which I saw from the plane. Well, that although they would not have been a mirage. From the height of Cox's Bazar town, seemed to garden. Tropical greens hid poor shacks and dusty streets, put them emerald blanket.
A young monk Sando Bata, with whom I met in the monastery, told me that Cox's Bazar have Arakan title: Phalaunschey, which means "place porosshee roses" - in other words, rosary. Very poetic. I asked Sando Bata, how would I go in Arakan village? "It's very simple. Tomorrow I will be able to escort you. I will simply say that you prefer: to go to the mountains, in Ramah, or on the island of Moheshkhali? - Said the monk. I chose the island. We ride on the sea.
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