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Amarapura

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Amarapura (MLCTS) is a former capital of Myanmar, and now a township of Mandalay city. [1]

33 relations: Amarapura, Amarapura Nikaya, Amarapura Palace, Bagaya Monastery, Bagyidaw, Bodawpaya, Bronze, Buddhism, Buddhist temple, Chanmyathazi Township, Cotton, Gautama Buddha, Inwa, Irrawaddy River, Konbaung dynasty, Kyauktawgyi Pagoda, List of capitals of Myanmar, Mandalay, Mandalay Region, Mindon Min, Myanmar, Myanmar Standard Time, Pagoda, Second Anglo-Burmese War, Silk, Sri Lanka, Stupa, Tharrawaddy Min, Township, U Bein Bridge, Urban sprawl, Weaving, Yadanabon University.

Amarapura

Amarapura (MLCTS) is a former capital of Myanmar, and now a township of Mandalay city.

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Amarapura Nikaya

The Amarapura Nikaya is a Sri Lankan monastic fraternity (gaṇa or nikāya) founded in 1800.

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Amarapura Palace

Amarapura Palace was a royal palace in the old capital of Amarapura in Burma.

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Bagaya Monastery

The Bagaya Monastery (ဘားဂရာ ကျောင်း), located in Inwa, Mandalay Region, Burma (Myanmar) is a Buddhist monastery built on the southwest of Inwa Palace.

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Bagyidaw

Bagyidaw (ဘကြီးတော်,; also known as Sagaing Min,; 23 July 1784 – 15 October 1846) was the seventh king of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma from 1819 until his abdication in 1837.

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Bodawpaya

Bodawpaya (ဘိုးတော်ဘုရား,; ปดุง; 11 March 1745 – 5 June 1819) was the sixth king of the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma.

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Bronze

Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12% tin and often with the addition of other metals (such as aluminium, manganese, nickel or zinc) and sometimes non-metals or metalloids such as arsenic, phosphorus or silicon.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Buddhist temple

A Buddhist temple is the place of worship for Buddhists, the followers of Buddhism.

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Chanmyathazi Township

Chanmyathazi Township (also spelled Chanmyathasi Township; ချမ်းမြသာစည် မြို့နယ်) is located in south-central area of Mandalay, Myanmar.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Gautama Buddha

Gautama Buddha (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE), also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic (śramaṇa) and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.

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Inwa

Inwa or Ava (or; also spelled Innwa), located in Mandalay Region, Burma (Myanmar), is an ancient imperial capital of successive Burmese kingdoms from the 14th to 19th centuries.

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Irrawaddy River

The Irrawaddy River or Ayeyarwady River (also spelt Ayeyarwaddy) is a river that flows from north to south through Myanmar.

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Konbaung dynasty

The Konbaung dynasty (ကုန်းဘောင်ခေတ်), formerly known as the Alompra dynasty, or Alaungpaya dynasty, was the last dynasty that ruled Burma/Myanmar from 1752 to 1885.

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Kyauktawgyi Pagoda

Kyauktawgyi Pagoda (ကျောက်တော်ကြီးဘုရား; also known as the Taungthaman Kyauktawgyi) is a Buddhist pagoda located in Amarapura, Burma, near the Taungthaman Lake.

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List of capitals of Myanmar

The current capital of Myanmar (Burma) is Naypyidaw.

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Mandalay

Mandalay is the second-largest city and the last royal capital of Myanmar (Burma).

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Mandalay Region

Mandalay Region (မန္တလေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး,, formerly Mandalay Division) is an administrative division of Myanmar.

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Mindon Min

Mindon Min (မင်းတုန်းမင်း,; 8 July 1808 – 1 October 1878) was the penultimate king of Burma (Myanmar) from 1853 to 1878.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.

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Myanmar Standard Time

Myanmar Standard Time (MMT) (မြန်မာ စံတော်ချိန်,; formerly Burma Standard Time (BST)) is the standard time in Myanmar, 6:30 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+06:30).

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Pagoda

A pagoda is a tiered tower with multiple eaves, built in traditions originating as stupa in historic South Asia and further developed in East Asia or with respect to those traditions, common to Nepal, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar, India, Sri Lanka and other parts of Asia.

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Second Anglo-Burmese War

The Second Anglo-Burmese War or the Second Burma War (ဒုတိယ အင်္ဂလိပ် မြန်မာ စစ်; 5 April 185220 January 1853) was the second of the three wars fought between the Burmese and British forces during the 19th century, with the outcome of the gradual extinction of Burmese sovereignty and independence.

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Silk

Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Stupa

A stupa (Sanskrit: "heap") is a mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics (śarīra - typically the remains of Buddhist monks or nuns) that is used as a place of meditation.

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Tharrawaddy Min

Tharrawaddy Min (သာယာဝတီမင်း,; 14 March 1787 – 17 November 1846) was the 8th king of the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma.

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Township

Township refers to various kinds of settlements in different countries.

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U Bein Bridge

U Bein Bridge (ဦးပိန် တံတား) is a crossing that spans the Taungthaman Lake near Amarapura in Myanmar.

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Urban sprawl

Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl describes the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities, in a process called suburbanization.

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Weaving

Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.

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Yadanabon University

Yadanabon University (ရတနာပုံ တက္ကသိုလ်) is a public liberal arts and sciences university in Mandalay, Myanmar.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarapura

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