Balancing on a Hair
April 13th, 2006 by Monkey
You should know about this pagoda in Myanmar for any number of amazing reasons. First, it sits on a big rock. Second, as you can plainly see, the rock itself is totally gilded in gold and looks like a shot out of a some spectacular nonexistent sci-fi film.
More importantly still, the great rock of the Kyaik-htiyo pagoda is balancing on the precipice of a larger rock. And when I say balancing, I mean really balancing; the area of contact between the two rocks is unbelievably small. So please don’t push…
However, barring any natural disasters, the pagoda probably isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. The stone hasn’t moved for hundreds of years; perhaps the single hair of Lord Buddha, upon which the pagoda is erected, is somehow keeping this gargantuan rock from slipping away…?
• Kyaik-htiyo – 3 large photos
• 1912 Photograph of Kyaik-htiyo
(via: geisha asobi)
Originally from Tinselman on March 30, 2006, 7:20pm
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