Myanmar Feb
2016
Bagan Day 2
Mount Popa Tour Afternoon
26 Feb 2016
Our next
stop on the return leg is Sa Lay town. Here we visited the Yoke-Sone-Kyaung
(monastery) or Salay Archaeological
Museum. It is the oldest surviving wooden monastery built around 1882. It is
constructed with 153 teak posts with more than 3 feet in diameter. It is known for the abundance of wood
carvings.
Shin Bin
Maha Man Temple and other temples nearby
Saw on the
road
We requested the tour guide to bring us to a local village not for tourist instead of one that is planned for tourists.
We had a
chance sighting near Bagan of a religious ritual, a novitiate ceremony known as
Shin Pyu in Myanmar.
Ceremony of Novitiation (known as “Shin Pyu Ceremony” in
Myanmar language) is one of the most important traditional and religious
ceremonies for Theravada Buddhism because around 90% of the populations are
Buddhist in Myanmar. It is the celebration of a young boy, normally under 20
years old, becoming the novice to enhance his and his parent’s Karma (Merit)
and it is a kind of blessing & pride for the whole family. Myanmar Buddhist
people believed that this event is not only very imperative duty for the
parents to their boy but also the good opportunity to pay back the gratitude
from the boy to their parents by being a novice. Every man should spend some
period of time in a monastic life at least once in his lifetime according to
the Buddhist beliefs in Myanmar. There are no exact age to become a novice and
no exact seasons of the month to celebrate the ceremony. But the Ceremony of
Novitiation is mostly held from March to May because the schools close for the
summer vacation and typically have long public holidays during these months.(Lifted
from MingalaGo website)
Dinner
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