SHWE NANN DAW KYAUNG

A BRIEF HISTORY

Shwe Kyaung (or) the Golden Monastery renown as Golden Kyaung Daw Gyi is 19th Century Kon Baung Era Architectural Work. The monastery is over 100 years old. It is situated in Maha Aung Mye Township, Dawna Ward of Mandalay. Since the building was originally a palace, it is gilded with glittering gold layers inside and outside: thus called “Golden Monastery”.

When King Mindon passed away, his son King Thibaw ascended the throne. King Thibaw dismantled the building in which the late king passed away and reconstructed on the present site as a monastery using the materials from it and donated.

Golden Palace Kyaung Gyi has a total of 150 pillars and 54 Nayar decorated support poles and built with five Thayet Kin Brick Stairs. The whole Shwe Nan Daw Kyaung is decorated with Myanmar woodcarvings, tapestry with floral designs of Kon Baung Era as well as fabulous works of art. Doors are decorated with bird and animal statues as well as Myanma cultural mosaic. The carving of Jataka stories adorn the bases of teak pillars.

Remark: Long Live Mandalay… This post is the fourth dedication post to the 150th Birthday Anniversary of Mandalay.

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The splendor of 19th Century Kon Baung Era Architectural Work…

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Construction of this monastery completed in AD 1880. So it is 129 years old now… (monochromatic tone in Adobe Lightroom)

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The interior decoration is with glittering gold layers. That’s the reason local people named it “Golden Monastery”…

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The pride of Myanmar woodcarvings from 19th Century Kon Baung Era…

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Local flower vendors trying to sell Jasmine to the visitors…

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A glance to the basement of the monastery. This Golden Palace Kyaung Gyi has a total of 150 teak wood pillars…

မီးငယ္

I like #2 photo. Nice shoot and right angle.
ABL

Nice! Learned from your photos. Thanks dude.
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@ မီးငယ္ >> Thanks, my sis…

@ ABL >> Just my fool proofs, mate… Something within my ability…
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nice photos.. it’s an amazing place until i see it myself too..

great photos as usual.
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bro, your shooting skills are getting better. Keep going and share us more photos.
Thanks…
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@ Linn >> Thanks, bro. It is such a wonderful place…

@ Min Thu >> Thanks a lot, Nyi Lay. I will try my best to hit your expectations…
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so great
real ancient art in digital art
Yinnwe

since when u left to Madalay,, i was hoping to see the pictures taken in Shwe Kyaung. when i lived in Mandalay i used to go there to see the antique architechture. thz for uploading these shots. I like the first picture most….
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@ MM Thinker >> Thanks a lot, Ko Thinker…

@ Yinnwe >> Of coz, how can I fail to miss this landmark icon of Mandalay. I had only 15 mins for shooting there. I wish I had more time…
SuWei

like d different color tone and structure u captured bro :D
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@ Suwei >> The temple itself is too grand. My shots aint describe 100% of its legend, I bet…
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Now, we are talking!
Well done.
By the way are you based (live) in Mandalay?
the desaturated shot looks the best; puts some nostalgic charm into the composition.
Would be better if you had an old monk walking with a stick or a young novice studying his texts, somewhere in to add some humanity.
But that’s my particular thought!
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@ Moe Lwin >> I do not based in Mandalay, bro. These shots are created during my recent trip to Mandalay. Regarding humanity shot, I would love to, bro. But then, I have been granted with a mere 15min there. Time is too restricted to wait for such moment. Thanks for your lovely comment and kind visit…
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Great works, bro.
#5 နဲ႕ #6 ကိုႀကိဳက္တယ္။ ဒီထက္ အေမွာင္ခ်ၿပီး ႐ိုက္လိုက္ရင္ ပိုေကာင္းမယ္ထင္တယ္။ My two cents bro…
Win Thiri Kyaw

Very nice photos…
Thank you for sharing history and great photos, you are very talented…
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@ Myo Kyaw Htun >> Thanks for your suggestion, bro. I wish I have enough time to shoot there…

@ Win Thiri Kyaw >> Thanks, A Ma. I love sharing my art with a brief history so that people know what is what…
Shwe Wut Hmone Khine

Bro!
All are Very Splendid! Your skill is DEEPLY APPRECIATED. And Boys are so cute, didn’t u buy their flowers?? I think you should. I love all but the third and fifth shots most… I would like to be captured standing by a golden pillar wearing an old beautiful traditional dress of a Princess in Golden Monastery… If so, I’ll be so SWEET… isn’t it?? :P
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@ Shwe Wut Hmone Khaing >> Thanks for your appreciation. I did buy some flowers from them. Regarding the last tips, I guess you are day dreaming. ROFL…
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No #6 ပံု အႀကိဳက္ဆုံးပါ။
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@ ညီလင္း၀င္း >> Thanks, bro… Ko TKG also like #6…
Saw Yu

Second photo is very nice… and the last is just the best one…
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@ Saw Yu >> Thanks, I love the last shot most…
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Excellent job! I especially love the 2nd and last photos.
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@ Soe >> Thanks a lot, bro…
PaukSi

အင္း မတတ္ တတတ္ အျမင္နဲ႔ ေျပာရမယ္ ဆုိရင္ ပထမပံုနဲ႔ ဒုတိယပံုကို အႀကိဳက္ဆံုးပဲ။ ဒါေပမယ့္ နံပါတ္ 4 ပံုက နည္းနည္းေလး တစ္မ်ိဳး ျဖစ္သလုိပဲ။ ဟုိေလ အထင္ေသးတာေတာ့ မဟုတ္ရပါဘူးခင္ဗ်ာ။ တျခားသူေတြ ရုိက္တာေတြ ျမင္ဘူးတယ္ သူတုိ႔ပံုနဲ႔ ယွဥ္လုိက္ရင္ တစ္ခုခု လုိေနသလုိပဲ။ နည္းနည္း ျပန္ဆန္းစစ္ ၾကၫ္႔ပါဦး ခင္ဗ်ာ။ အႏုပညာေျမာက္တဲ႔ ဓါတ္ပံုေတြ ၾကၫ္႔ခြင့္ရလုိ႔ ေက်းဇူး အရမ္းတင္တယ္ အစ္ကိုေရ။ တကယ္ပါ။ ေက်းဇူးတင္လ်က္။ ဓါတ္ပံုေကာင္းေတြပဲ အၿမဲရပါေစ ခင္ဗ်ာ။
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@ PaukSi >> Yes, #4 is not a good shot. But then, I wanted to show my foreign friends that the wood carving appeared on many doors. Thanks for your wish and I will always be trying to improve myself. Thanks for dropping in and commenting…
Than Zaw Myo

Man! I like the third one very much… it’s a well capture of rhythm…
I Lim

Wow!… YLO Man. I like all fotos again. I like NO.2 and 4 more than other. I think NO.4 foto is more light. My opinion, if NO.2 foto make a little bit darker, will be better. But I like all of your fotos. Keep going YLO.
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Second photo is very nice… and the last is just the best one…
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I Lim >> Thanks for your appreciation once again, my friend. No.4, I have added light with Graduated Filter because I wanna highlight the details of wood carving. Anyway, I like the way you suggested too… Thank you so much for your regular visit, my friend…

@ LW >> Thanks for your comment. #2, I have desaturated in Adobe Lightroom.
Cool Master

I love everything, from the pictures to the narrations. I think you spend quite a lot of time to get these. Appreciate them.
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@ Cool Master >> Thanks a lot. I have spent couples of hours writing narration… Thanks for appreciating my arts…
PonGyi

luv the 2nd & the last one… 2nd one looks like a sketch… also adore the angle u shot in the last pic… the way the lighting came down through parallel small holes from the ceiling to the ground is really awesome… u grabbed the unique point of the scene… congrats bro!!! oh btw, sorry for my late comments… u know i’m damn busy during these days… ;D
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I think your setting on the no. 4 photo was not suitable for the day time. ISO 320, S=1/50 sec and Aperture f5.6. That’s why your photo is blurred (not sharp enough) and didn’t show the details what you want to show to the viewers. Should use F8 or above and S 1/100 or above in this situation.
Same with No. 5 and 6 photos. Should use higher shutter speed and above f5.6.
I like the No. 1 and 2 photos.
Happy shooting!
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@ PonGyi >> Thanks for your kind comment and yes, you’re always busy. Busy with Ye Tike? Lolz…

@ A K Win >> Sayar. Thanks for your suggestion. I will watch out those details next time. I was in rush that time and yes, I shoot with Aperture Priority mode making f/5.6, Sayar. And lighting at that time is CRAZY…
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I love the second photo and the last photo. Classic~
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@ ေမာင္ Harry >> Thanks for your visit and comment…
Superman

wowww… i like 2,3,4 and 5 a lot.. nice bro..
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@ Superman >> Thanks, bro…
ဇင္မာ

ေနာက္ဆုံး တစ္ပုံကို… အႀကိဳက္ဆံုးပဲ… တစ္မ်ိဳးေလး… ဘယ္လို ေျပာရမလဲ… ေျပာေတာင္ မတတ္ေတာ႔ဘူး (ဓါတ္ပုံဆရာရဲ႕… စိတ္ကူးနဲ႔… ဖန္တီးႏိုင္မႈ ေၾကာင္႔ထင္တယ္… :) ဟိ…ေျမႇာက္ေနတာ…
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@ ဇင္မာ >> Thanks for your comment. The light array in the last shot is something STRANGE…
မႏြယ္

သားငယ္ေလး… ေနာက္ဆုံးပုံေလးကို ႀကိဳက္တယ္။
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@ မႏြယ္ >> Thanks a lot… You visit here too?
Nyikha

#2 ပံုေလးကို သေဘာက်တယ္… ၊ အရိုးဆံုးဟာ အဆန္းဆံုးပဲ ဆိုတာ ဒါကို ေျပာတယ္ထင္ပ… ၊ ၾကၫ္႔ရတာ အရသာ တစ္မ်ဳိးပဲ…
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@ Nyikha >> Thanks for your comment. #2, shooting angle is a bit different and I have desaturated the color tones…
Hnin

I prefer 2nd, 4th n 6th… these r really nice capture… especially 6th one… lighting is really good… love to see it… :)
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@ Hnin >> Lolz. You love 6th too? Thanks thanks…
Nyi Htoo

BW photo is nice, like the way…
and the basement 1, people miss to shot that spot…
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@ Nyi Htoo >> Thanks, bro. Yes, the basement is what people normally do not notice…

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