Myazigon Pagoda

{{Short description|Buddhist Pagoda in Taungoo, Myanmar}}

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| location = Taungoo, Myanmar

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The Myazigon Pagoda (sometimes known as the Myasigon Pagoda) is a Buddhist temple in Taungoo, Myanmar. Built in either the 16thSein Lwin Lay, Kahtika U (1968). Mintaya Shwe Hti and Bayinnaung: Ketumadi Taungoo Yazawin (in Burmese) (2006, 2nd printing ed.). Yangon. pp. 312{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Toungoo|title=Toungoo {{!}} Myanmar|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-08-15}} or 19th century,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cE98DAAAQBAJ&dq=Myasigon+Pagoda&pg=PT97|title=DK Eyewitness Myanmar (Burma) Travel Guide|last=Travel|first=D. K.|date=2016-09-20|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9781465459824|language=en}} the temple contains several images of members of the Toungoo dynasty{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y42DMkS3ZXUC&dq=Myazigon+Pagoda&pg=PA103|title=Myanmar (Burma)|last1=Köllner|first1=Helmut|last2=Bruns|first2=Axel|date=1998|publisher=Hunter Publishing, Inc|isbn=9783886184156|language=en}} (which ruled Taungoo) and a large sitting bronze statue of the Buddha that was captured in a Toungoo war against the Ayutthaya Kingdom.{{Cite web|url=https://www.myanmarinsider.com/a-visit-to-taungoo/|title=A visit to Taungoo|last=admin|date=2015-06-08|website=Myanmar Insider|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-14}}

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