Yangon,
\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi today wrapped up his Myanmar trip with visits to the \u201cmazar\u201d of last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and the 2,500-year-old Shwedagon pagoda, besides performing puja at the Kalibari Temple here.<\/p>\n
Modi, on the last day of his three-day first bilateral visit to this Buddhist-majority country, visited the pagoda, considered to be the pinnacle of Myanmar\u2019s cultural heritage.<\/p>\n
He also planted a Bodhi tree sapling at the pagoda complex, signifying common cultural heritage. \u201cDelighted to visit Myanmar\u2019s cultural landmark, the Shwedagon Pagoda,\u201d Prime Minister Modi tweeted.<\/p>\n
The 2,500-year-old Shwedagon Pagoda enshrines strands of Buddha\u2019s hair and other holy relics. Located west of the Royal Lake in Yangon, it is considered to be the most sacred and impressive Buddhist site for the Myanmarese people.<\/p>\n
Shwedagon Pagoda is covered with hundreds of gold plates and the top of the stupa is encrusted with 4,531 diamonds, the largest of which is a 72 carat diamond.<\/p>\n
Modi also visited the Bogyoke Aung San Museum where he was accompanied by Myanmar\u2019s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. \u201cI thank Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for the special gesture of showing me around the Bogyoke Aung San Museum. Paid tributes to General Aung San,\u201d Modi said.<\/p>\n
He also visited the grave of Bahadur Shah Zafar and paid floral tributes. The Prime Minister also tweeted a picture of his at the Mughal ruler\u2019s grave.<\/p>\n
Bahadur Shah Zafar, who was also a prolific Urdu poet and calligrapher, died at the age of 87 in then Rangoon, where he was exiled to by the British after the revolt of 1857.<\/p>\n
Modi also paid his respects at the martyrs\u2019 mausoleum and performed \u201cpuja\u201d at the Kalibari Temple. \u201cPerformed Puja at Yangon\u2019s Kalibari Temple. Feeling extremely blessed,\u201d Modi tweeted along with a picture of him at the temple.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, Modi had visited the famous early 12th-century Ananda Temple in Myanmar\u2019s ancient city of Bagan. The temple is being renovated with India\u2019s assistance after it was damaged in a tremor last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yangon, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today wrapped up his Myanmar trip with visits to the \u201cmazar\u201d of last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and the 2,500-year-old Shwedagon pagoda, besides performing puja at the Kalibari Temple here. Modi, on the last day of his three-day first bilateral visit to this Buddhist-majority country, visited the pagoda, considered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4145,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions\/4145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}