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Date: 2019-06-15

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00:01:06 1 Royal merit
00:03:22 2 Assembly and contents
00:04:41 3 Annexation, desecration and restoration
00:06:56 4 See also



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SUMMARY
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Stone tablets inscribed with the Tripiṭaka (and other Buddhist texts) stand upright in the grounds of the Kuthodaw Pagoda (kuthodaw means "royal merit") at the foot of Mandalay Hill in Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma). The work was commissioned by King Mindon as part of his transformation of Mandalay into a royal capital. It was completed in 1868. The text contains the Buddhist canon in the Burmese language.
There are 730 tablets and 1,460 pages. Each page is 1.07 metres (3 1⁄2 ft) wide, 1.53 metres (5 ft) tall and 13 centimetres (5 1⁄8 in) thick. Each stone tablet has its own roof and precious gem on top in a small cave-like structure of Sinhalese relic casket type called kyauksa gu (stone inscription cave in Burmese), and they are arranged around a central golden pagoda.