UPALI THEIN

A BRIEF BACKGROUND

Upali Thein (Ordination Hall) is situated close to Htilominlo Temple. The ordination hall was named after a celebrated monk, Upali. He lived during the reign of King Nantaungmya and Kyazwa, and the foundation of the building was said to be assigned to the second quarter of the 13th century A.D. It is a structure of fine proportions enclosed within brick walls. It is a rectangular in plan, and contains a hall with an image of the Buddha placed on the pedestal near the western end. The roof is ornamented with a double row of battlements in simulation of wooden architecture, and its center is surmounted by a small, slim pagoda. The arches on which and ceilings are in a fair state of preservation. They belong to the late 17th or early 18th century A.D.

Filled with the architectural details of Buddhist style and connotations, the external appearance of this ordination hall reminds of the spectator of the wheel-less Vishnu-raths of South India, particularly of Conjeevaram and Mahabalipuram.

UPALI THEIN is under careful maintenance of Ministry of Culture…

The foundation of the building was said to be assigned to the second quarter of the 13th century A.D.

The image of the Buddha inside UPALI THEIN…

The arches on which and ceilings are in a fair state of preservation…

Pon Gyi

OMGGG… လုပ္လိုက္ဗ်… သက္ အစ္ မိုင္ ဘ ရား သား… very 1st one is such an amazing shot!!! ;D
David Ho

Glad to see the new post. It’s been a long wait…
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I like second and third photo. First one, I like the clouds and 10mm wide :) … well done, bro!!!
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Quite stunning and impressive shots! :)
AM

bro ေရ တတိယပုံမွာ (ဓါတ္ပုံမ႐ိုက္ရ DON’T TAKE PHOTO) လို႔ ေရးထားတယ္ေနာ္ :P
ဒီတခါ post မွာ ဘယ္ camera နဲ႔ ႐ိုက္ထားလဲ ဘာ Lens သုံးထားလဲ မပါဘူးေနာ္။
Whatever nice shoots bro :D congratz
Treasure

ya… I love the 1st one too, keep it up, looking forward to see more :)
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@ Pon Gyi >> သင္းခ႐ု မိုင္စစ္စတား။ အိုင္၀င္ထ႐ိုင္း ဟားဒါး…။

@ David Ho >> Thanks for ur visit and comment, bro. Yes, i have been lack of mood lately. I believe this one is worth waiting…

@ Myo Kaw Htun >> I should have get rid of distortion in #1, but then… Thanks for ur supports, bro…

@ Min Thu >> Thanks a lot, bro…

@ AM >> Yeap. I requested the guard. He said go ahead but no FLASH. So, it’s a natural lighting. All photos taken with Nikon D90 and 2 lens; Sigma 10-20mm and Nikkor 18-200mm…

@ Treasure >> The first one, i played a lot with that sky and clouds…
pyi soe

All photos are great as usual bro, တတိယပံုကို အႀကိဳက္ဆံုးဘဲ။ ဓါတ္ပံု မရိုက္ရ ဆိုဘဲ။ hee hee :D
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Thanks for the background history and photos. It’s really interesting place and nice shoots too.
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@ Pyi Soe >> Thanks a lot for your visit and comment, bro…

@ Myo Han Htun >> Thanks, bro. Background is from various sources, mainly from “Pictorial Guide to Bagan”…
Saw Yu

love the first shot and the last short .. :)
was it raining when you got there? the sky wasn’t so colorful
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သူက အရင္ကတည္း ကလည္း ထီးထီးမားမားႀကီးပါပဲ… ဒါမယ့္ ဒီပံုေတြၾကၫ့္ၿပီးမွ ပိုၿပီး ထီးထီးမားမား ျဖစ္ေနသလိုပဲ :)
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@ Saw Yu >> Yes, it was raining there when I shoot, my dear…

@ နန္းညီ >> အဲ… ႐ိုက္ထားတဲ႔ မွန္ဘီလူး ေၾကာင္႔ျဖစ္မယ္ ထင္ပါတယ္။ Wide Lens ေတြက အေပၚကို ပင္႔လိုက္ရင္ ေအာက္ေျခေတြက Distortion ႐ိွတယ္ဗ်။ ပိုႀကီးသြားတတ္တယ္။
Maggie

You took a beautiful photo…
M.Mimi Lei

great shots as always bro… YLO…
with the related historical information, everything just make all complete… :)
good job…!
glad to see some new posts. how have u been? drop a line when u get a chance.
Keep working hard!!!
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nice thing. really good piece of work, I have never been there even I have been to Bagan a couple of times as long as I can remember…
well done…
THAN ZAW MYO

YLO nice photo and nice article… :D
not allowed to shoot ?
:D may be with flash not allowed .
without flash may ok hehe
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@ Maggie >> Thank you for your visit and comment…

@ M.Mimi Lei >> I am good, sis… Thanks for leaving comment…

@ Linn >> Upali Thein is situated near Htilominlo Temple, bro…

@ THAN ZAW MYO >> Yes, they do not allow FLASH because it deteriorates the paintings on the walls…
Ed

I love the first shot. Because of the clouds, building really stands out, good 3D effect.
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@ Ed >> Thanks a lot. I used some filter effects on sky…
Nwe Ni

Glorious UPALI THEIN and Amazing shoot.
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@ Nwe Ni >> Thanks a lot for your visit and comment. I am currently preparing the new post, The Grand Ananda Temple. That would be more glorious, I bet…
Ma Ma Lay

Great shoot!
Want to read more narrations. Thanks for sharing.
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@ Ma Ma Lay >> Thanks for your visit and comment. Sorry that I am lack of courage to write narration. I will try to include some in next post…
Uncle Dr. Yu Sein

William
At first, I think it’s about a man . A nice shoot & very attractive especially the title.
Uncle Yu Sein
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@ Uncle Dr. Yu Sein >> Thanks a lot, uncle. The name itself is interesting huh?
Snow

Very nice post. Thanks a lot for precious information u have provided.
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@ Snow >> Thanks a lot for your visit and kind comment… I am glad to have a fan who appreciates my arts…
http://photography.zinonline.com Soe

Nice wide angle captures :)
Beautiful as usual… I wish I have an ultra-wide like you guys… :)
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@ Soe >> Thanks for your visit, bro. I am in love with my wide lens, seriously!!!
Su Hnin

very nice shots… i like the first one most… it’s really perfect!!!
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@ Su Hnin >> Thanks a lot, sis… First one is my fav of that set too…
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hi…
Great photo man, i love it…
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@ Kalista >> Thanks my friend… Hope to see your future visits…
MyoMin

nice shoot per bro…
i like all but 1st n 3rd r really perfect…
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@ MyoMin >> Thanks a lot, bro… I love #1 most…

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