Shwedagon donation box rumour

Thet Naing — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:37:42 +0000

The following is the translation from the blog by Ma Ma written in Burmese. The original article can be found at On Shwedagon. “…… I was quite inquisitive about everything. One day while I was going to Shwedagon as usual, I happened to know about the donation boxes in Shwedagon Pagoda. I was at Chanthargyi Shrine when I saw a young short thin guy carrying the locked donation boxes every night at around 9 PM. He carried all the donation boxes on Shwedagon, not a single night, but every night, and kept them all at the specific place. It was so strange. Even when we were young when the pagoda was open to the public all night long, I never saw or heard anybody kept these donation boxes in a safe place like this. Nowadays when the pagoda gates closes at 10 PM, only the guards are left on Shwedagon Pagoda. Carrying all donation boxes like this every night seemed to me like a punishment to this small boy. I was quite inquisitive, so I asked this young boy who gave him this kind of punishment. He looked very surprised. I asked again why and where he carried them away [...]

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Bamarlay — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:16:01 +0000

Yesterday, I stumble upon a travel blog named Oh, Matero. It is a personal blog of a person with many travel blog interies. Recently, he traveled to Myanmar, and stayed there during New Year’s Day. He wrote quite interesting account of his visit to Myanmar. He came to Myanmar from Thailand on 12 December, 2008 and arrived at the Yangon International Airport, he noticed this country is “very low-key and quite pleasant. I don’t see crowds of people rushing everywhere, I don’t hear car horns, and taxi drivers aren’t bothering me too much.” The next day, he traveled around Yangon on foot and later riding on a passenger pick up truck. He notice men “wearing a type of skirt here called longyi. Next thing you notice is monks walking barefoot on the city streets. This morning I decided to take a walk and see some sights. It was interesting to see how they deliver newspapers. There are strings hanging down from each apartment. A man clips the newspaper onto the end of the string, gives it a shake which sounds a bell, then the person inside pulls up the string with newspaper attached.” After Yangon, he traveled to Kyaiktiyo (Kyaik-hti-yo) [...]

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