{"id":3607,"date":"2024-01-24T03:29:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T03:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2024-01-24T03:38:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T03:38:15","slug":"a-scene-of-pilgrims-coming-to-offer-their-prayers-to-the-great-maravijaya-buddha-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3607","title":{"rendered":"A scene of pilgrims coming to offer their prayers to the great Maravijaya Buddha Statue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>24 January 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M\u0101ravijaya Buddha is an 81-foot (25 m) marble statue of the Buddha in Dekkhinathiri Township, Naypyidaw, the national capital of Myanmar. The image, which features the bhumiphassa mudra, is the world&#8217;s largest marble Buddha statue. The statue itself weighs 5,292 tons, built using marble quarried from Sagyin, near Mandalay. The image is located on a 91-hectare site, which also features stone inscriptions, stupas, religious buildings, and a Mucalinda pond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-24_09-41-29-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-24_09-41-29-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-24_09-41-29-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-24_09-41-29-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-24_09-41-29-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-24_09-41-29.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a lot of pilgrims visiting the great Maravijaya Buddha Statue on weekends. On weekdays many pilgrims who want to have a peaceful also come to offer their prayers to the great Maravijaya Buddha Statue in the evening after their jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-24_09-41-34-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-24_09-41-34-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-24_09-41-34-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-24_09-41-34-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-24_09-41-34-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-24_09-41-34.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-24_09-41-36-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-24_09-41-36-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-24_09-41-36-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-24_09-41-36-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-24_09-41-36-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-24_09-41-36.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 January 2024 M\u0101ravijaya Buddha is an 81-foot (25 m) marble statue of the Buddha in Dekkhinathiri Township,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3617,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions\/3617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}