page_title: Kaylartha Pagoda
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Kaylartha Pagoda / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Canopy of ancient Bodhi Tree atop Kaylartha Mountain in Mon State, Myanmar
context_page_description: Kaylartha Pagoda is a Buddhist Pagoda that sits atop the summit of Mount Kaylartha in Mon State, Myanmar. Local legend claims that at the foot of Kaylartha Mountain sat the ancient Kingdom of the Gold.
context_section_description: At the top of Mount Kaylartha stands a pagoda said to house a hair of the Buddha. It is believed that in the Tharthanar Era (111), the Gautama Buddha arrived at the Kaylartha Mountain, Thuwunna Bonmi.  He stayed at a monastery built by King Tissa Dama Thiha Yaza.  The Buddha preached sermons to the public for seven days. During that time, he became close with the Hermits Tissa and Thiha and the local hermit of Kaylartha Mountain. They requested that he leave behind some relic to be revered by the people in his place after he left to return home.  Buddha agreed and gave six of his hairs to hermits from Kyaiktiyo, Zinkyaik (to Tissa), Mount Zwegabin (to Thiha), Kaylartha, Kuthaerayone and Melan. A pair of belu brothers from Kyaikhtisaung also received a hair.  All the hermits and belus enshrined the hair in great stones.
  The Hermit of Kaylartha, whose name was Tila of Dokkhalun, discussed how to go about enshrining the hairs and building pagodas around them with Hermits Tissa and Thiha and Indra Sakka, who had supported Thiha in constructing a pagoda on Mount Zwegabin.  He enshrined the hair relic in the pagoda atop Kaylartha Mountain, and was advised by Indra Sakka. 
  The hermits communicated with each other by shining lights atop their respective mountains at nighttime.  Tissa, who stayed atop Zinkyaik Mountain, did not see light coming from Mountain Kaylartha and wondered what might have occurred.  He went to Kaylartha Mountain and found the body of the Kaylartha Hermit.  The body was burnt and buried, while the head, which was not burnt nor decomposed, held one of Buddha's hairs in its braid. It was returned to Mok Soe Taung Pagoda and joined the original two hair relics there.
caption: Canopy of ancient Bodhi Tree atop Kaylartha Mountain in Mon State, Myanmar
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