THE GREAT THATBYINNYU

A BRIEF BACKGROUND

“Thatbyinnyu” signifies “omniscience”, one of the attributes of the Buddha. The temple was built around the middle of the 12th century A.D. by King Alaungsithu, grandson and successor of the King Kyansittha who erected the Ananda Temple. Standing within the city walls, some 500 yards to the south-west of the Ananda, the Thatbyinnyu rises the height of 201 feet above the ground and overtops all other monuments. Its general plan is not unlike the Ananda, but it does not, like the latter form a symetrical cross. The eastern porch alone projects considerably from the wall. It has two main stories and the Buddha image is seated on the upper floor. The central stairways guarded by two standing figures of guardians faces the eastern hall and entrance. The steps lead to a circumambulatory corridor round the central mass. Climbing up one of the pair of stairs built in the thickness of the walls one reaches the top of the vestibule from where an external flights of stairs lead to the upper story. The pilasters combine to give a soaring effect to the monument. The two tiers of windows in each story make the interior bright and airy. But the walls are bare and the recesses along the plinth and terraces do not contain any glazed plaque.

FACTS

Its height earned it the title of BAGAN TOWER. In olden days, it was used as a library for monks. Today its height gives a vantage point for enjoying the famous scene of sunset at Bagan.

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The name “Thatbyinnyu” signifies “omniscience”, one of the attributes of the Buddha…

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Thatbyinnyu rises the height of 201 feet above the ground and overtops all other monuments…

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The pilasters combine to give a soaring effect to the monument…

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The corridors on the ground floor has numerous Buddha images adjacent to the windows…

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Its height earned it the title of BAGAN TOWER. My tele shot from SHWESANDAW PHAYA…

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Great!!!
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ဒီတေခါက္ retouch လုပ္ထားတာေတြက နည္းနည္းေမွာင္ေနသလားလို႔။
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this is real majestic photo… ThaBinNyuTa Payar…
fantastic shots as well.
HTIN K M

Nice bro… wanna go bagan now…
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@ MM Thinker >> Thanks, bro…

@ ညီလင္း၀င္း >> ခုတစ္ေလာ ေမွာင္ေတာင္ေတာင္ မြဲတဲတဲ အေရာင္ေလးေတြ ႀကိဳက္ေနလို႔ပါ။

@ Linn >> Thanks for your lovely comment, bro. I will always be moving forward…

@ HTIN K M >> I am glad that I could bring you guys to Bagan through this blog…
Su Hnin

very nice photos… all give a real sense of bagan…
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@ Su Hnin >> Thanks for the praise and I will bring you more around Bagan…
THAN ZAW MYO

I like the second last!!!
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@ THAN ZAW MYO >> Thanks for your comment, Ko Pae. I have added some amount of exposure since the original shot was kind of dim…
Treasure

Another amazing ARTs again :)
ပုဂံကို ၀ိညာဥ္ျပန္သြင္းေနသလိုပဲ…
PYI SOE

Bro! Ur shots r professional! pls keep going… :)
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@ Treasure >> Thanks a lot… ပုဂံက ဘုရားေတြနားမွာ ႐ိွတဲ႔ ဘာမွန္းမသိတဲ႔ အေငြ႕ေတြကို လြမ္းလို႔ ဒီလို ကာလာေလး လုပ္ထားတာပါ။

@ PYI SOE >> Glad to have a comment and thanks for the visit, bro…
Pon Gyi

awesome shots bro… luv the 3rd & the last ones most… i also found those pilasters the most breathtaking art… they r such amazing work of architecture that they were created only with egg white since there’s no cement powder… really glad that u made a great shot of them… to tell the truth, the very last one can b said as one of the masterpieces of ya ever… nice background scene, poetic sky, the eminent temple that lies right in the middle… it’s such a perfect teleshot… reminds me of those postcards & calendars sold at Bagan Pagodas… ;D… well… only one word left to tell ya my bro… Congrats!!! ;D
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Absolutely magnificent!
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@ Pon Gyi >> Thanks a lot. I have used some effects in SKY to give that breathtaking feeling and yes again with DRY TONE to share the real feeling of middle Burma. I will keep trying, my sis… Honestly, I always do look forward to your comments since it gives me a great flair of strength…

@ A K Win >> Thank you so much, Sayar…
Yan Paing Oo

ပုဂံ ဘုရား ႐ွဳခင္းပုံ ေတာ္ေတာ္ မ်ားမ်ားကို ၾကၫ္႔ဖူးပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ္႔ ဒီပံုေတြၾကၫ္႔ၿပီး ဒီထက္ေကာင္းတဲ႔ ႐ိုက္ခ်က္ အလင္းအေမွာင္ ရွိပါ႔မလား လို႔ေတြးမိတယ္။ အေကာင္းဆုံး ဆိုတာေတာင္ ေ႐ြးရခက္သြားျပီ။ I like d 3rd one most. I’m proud of u, bro…
Saw Yu

အေ၀းၾကၫ္႔ၾကၫ္႔ ၊ အနီးၾကၫ္႔ၾကၫ္႔ ပံုေတြအကုန္ အရမ္းေကာင္းပါတယ္… ဘယ္လိုမ်ား ႐ိုက္လိုက္ပါလိမ့္ေနာ္… ေ႐ွ႕ဆံုးပံုနဲ႔ ေနာက္ဆံုးပံုကို အႀကိဳက္ဆံုးပဲ…
Nyi Htwar

i like this photo, not too bright, good man, keep it up…
i like 1,2,3,5 it’s going to be my ph screen saver…
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@ Yan Paing Oo >> ညီေလး။ အကို အလင္းအေမွာင္ ခ်ိန္ထားတာနဲ႔ ညီေလးရဲ႕ အႀကိဳက္နဲ႔ သြားတိုက္ဆိုင္ေနတယ္ နဲ႔တူပါတယ္။ ပံုေတြကို မိုးအုံ႔ေနတဲ႔ အခ်ိန္မွာ ႐ိုက္ထားတာ က တစ္ေၾကာင္း ၊ အညာ ရသေလး ပါသြားေအာင္ Color Tone ေတြကို Dry ျဖစ္ေအာင္ လုပ္ထားတာက တစ္ေၾကာင္း ေၾကာင္႔ ဒီလို ျဖစ္သြားတာပါ။ အားေပးတာ အၿမဲ ေက်းဇူးဗ်ာ…။

@ Saw Yu >> Lolz… Now you know you brother, huh?

@ Nyi Htwar >> Thanks a lot for the praise, my friend. You know what? I am always happy to see my photo shots on my friend’s computer as wallpaper or screen saver. It does give me a true happiness…
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Those are really high quality shots. :) I like them. Thanks for sharing!
Ma Ma Lay

Remarkable shot I have ever seen and great narration of amazing Bagan.
I’ve known that if we pray deeply in this pagoda, our wish will come true.
Your photos insist me to go there again. Thank you, bro.
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@ Min Thu >> Thanks a lot. But it eats up lots of time to upload a single post. I spent many hours for these shots…

@ Ma Ma Lay >> Bagan is where you wanna go again and again. Thanks for the visit and comment. May all your wishes come true…
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1st and 4th are my favorites. You should put those photos as a set in Flickr when you have chance. Your recent trip to Singapore improves your post processing a lot, I guess. Keep shooting… way to go bro!
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@ Myo Kyaw Htun >> Thanks a lot, bro. Yes, I learned a lot from Ko Rain during my stay in Singapore. My editing skill somewhat reflects his choice of tones sometimes… Can’t use Flickr for the moment and I cant wait to update my Flickr album…
Shwe Wut Hmone Khine

Thank you so much. Bro! OOHH OHHHH!! how excellent your shots are!!! YOU are making your country beautiful with your PHOTOGRAPHY… I don’t even know how to describe my feeling on your creations. Let me say,”ALL ARE BEST & I LIKE ALL” Now I see not only the beauty of places, but your skill and your POWERFUL SPIRIT in it also!!! YOU should create a place for YE LWIN OO’S GALLERY! JUST DO IT, BRO, DO IT!!!
Myo Min

Bro…
I like #1, #4 n #5 per bro. nice shots n amazing Bagan. #5 က အညာေဒသ ပုဂံေျမကို လြမ္းတဲ႔ သူတိုင္းအတြက္…
Keep going bro…
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ဒုတိယေျမာက္ပံု ေပးမလား… ဟင္ ဟင္ ဟင္…
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@ Shwe Wut Hmone Khaing >> Thanks a lot, sis… I always include a sip of feeling/state of emotion in photos. I bet you can catch up all those hidden meanings. I have a dream to take part in photography show. But then, I need lots of time to improve my skill to reach that level. Anyway, thanks for your visit and comment…

@ Myo Min >> I really love the way you write the comment for #5. Thanks a lot, bro…

@ နန္းညီ >> I will send it to ur email, sis… no worries…
MinThant2009

ေအာက္ဆံုး ၂ ပံုႀကိဳက္တယ္ ခင္ဗ်ာ….
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@ MinThant2009 >> Thanks, bro… The last one is my fav here…
ေမာင္ေမာင္

ပံုေတြက ေကာင္းလြန္းလို႔ ဘယ္လို႔ ေျပာရမလဲေတာင္ စဥ္းစားရတယ္ ၊ အေပၚဆံုးပံုၾကၫ္႔ေတာ႔ မေရာက္တာၾကာၿပီျဖစ္တဲ႔ ပုဂံေျမကို လြမ္းတဲ႔စိတ္ ေပၚလာတယ္ ၊ ေအာက္ဆံုးပံု ၾကၫ္႔ေတာ႔ ပုဂံ ေရာက္သြားတဲ႔ အတိုင္း ၾကည္ႏူးခံစား မိတယ္ဗ်ာ ၊ ကိုရဲလြင္ဦး ရဲ႕ fav မို႔ လိုက္ႀကိဳက္တာေတာ႔ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး ၊ ကၽြန္ေတာ္လည္း ေအာက္ဆံုးပံုကို ပိုႀကိဳက္တယ္။
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@ ေမာင္ေမာင္ >> Thanks a lot for the comment, bro. Yes, the last shot is kind of my fav for this set.
http://photography.zinonline.com Soe

Beautiful set of pictures! You could feel the rain coming… Good Job, bro!
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@ Soe >> Thanks a lot, bro. Yes, the clouds give me kind of roaming feeling…
Zaw

I like your shots. It makes me miss Myanmar. I think, most of Myanmar who live in foreign country like your photos most.
Thanks a lot…
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@ Zaw >> Thanks for your visit. I am happy that you like my photos. I do have visitors from Myanmar also…
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အလြန္႔အလြန္ ေကာင္းတဲ႔ ပံုေတြပါဗ်ာ… ေနာက္ဆံုးပံုကိုေတာ႔ အႀကိဳက္ဆံုးပါပဲ။
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@ SuperNova >> Thanks a lot, bro. The last one is just a bird-eye view…
SY

YLO… can i have first and last one?
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@ SY >> Sure, I will send them to your gmail…
Gina Khine

last pic is my fav one… keep it up and post more…
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@ Gina Khine >> No worries, Ma Gina. I still have a lot to go…
Nan Wah Wah Aung

After looking all your picture I want to visit to that place. If I have a chance I will visit to that place. These are great pictures. The name “Thatbyinnyu” signifies “omniscience”, one of the attributes of the Buddha… That is I like the most. Thank you for sharing your creation.
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@ Nan Wah Wah Aung >> Sure. Whenever you think of travel spot, Bagan always come to your mind. Thank you for your visit and comment…
စုလတ္

ဒီတခါလဲ အားလံုးႀကိဳက္တယ္။ အေပၚဆံုးနဲ႔ ေအာက္ဆံုးပံုေတာ႔ အႀကိဳက္ဆံုးပဲ။ အေရာင္… အဲ႔လို အေရာင္ကို သိပ္သေဘာက်တာပဲ။
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@ စုလတ္ >> ေက်းဇူး ဗ်ာ။ အကိုက ေအာက္ဆံုးက bird-eye view ကို အႀကိဳက္ဆံုးဗ်။ အေရာင္က နဲနဲ ျပန္ခ်ိန္ထားတာ…။ ေျမလတ္ ေဒသ နဲ႔ လိုက္ဖက္တဲ႔ Dry Tone မဲေျခာက္ေျခာက္ ေလးပါ။ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕လူေတြကေတာ႔ မႀကိဳက္ဘူး ဗ်။ အကို ကေတာ႔ အဲလို ကာလာတုန္း နဲ႔ လိုက္ဖက္တယ္လို႔ ခံယူလို႔ ျပန္လုပ္ထားတာပါ။
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I like all of your shoots. But, some have a noisy effect. This is also good for new sightseeing. I think, your hand have magic power. Go ahead my brother. One of the Pagodas in Indonesia has such kind of situation. I hope you can enjoy this places. The name is Borobudur Pagodas. This is very ancient pagodas. The age is earlier than Bagan.
Thanks for your effort.
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@ Kyaw Linn Zaw >> Thanks a lot, bro. Indonesia is in my list. I would love to go there and shoot. Not for the moment though. Thanks for the visit and comment…
Greensky

I like your ideas about the light and dark on these photos. It’s dreamy. I feel like dreaming by viewing them. That’s great, Bro. How did you do that?
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@ Greensky >> You can use ND filter to capture this kind of photos, bro. Thks for your visit and comment…

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