Maha Thetkya Yanthi Buddha

Maha Thetkya Yanthi Buddha (Burmese: မဟာသကျရံသီ ရုပ်ရှင်တော်မြတ်ကြီး); Pali: Mahāsakyaraṃsi) is a Buddhist temple in Ottarathiri Township, Naypyidaw Union Territory, Myanmar that houses a 32-foot (9.8 m) marble image of the standing Buddha that weighs 700 tonnes (690 long tons; 770 short tons).[1][2] The marble was sourced from a quarry 375 miles (604 km) north in Mandalay.[3] The image was enshrined on 20 June 2015 in the Gandhakuṭi Pavilion (ဂန္ဓကုဋိကျောင်းဆောင်). Construction efforts were undertaken by ACE Construction Group, owned by Tint Hsan.

Maha Thetkya Yanthi Buddha Mahāsakyaraṃsi
မဟာသကျရံသီ ရုပ်ရှင်တော်မြတ်ကြီး
Religion
Affiliation	Theravada Buddhism
Location
Country	Ottarathiri Township, Naypyidaw, Myanmar
Geographic coordinates	19.868934°N 96.140135°E
Architecture
Founder	Naypyidaw Development Committee
Completed	2015

See also

• Buddhism in Myanmar

References

1. "Standing Buddha – Mahasakyaransi" (in French). Retrieved 27 October 2018.
2. "မဟာသကျရံသီ ရုပ်ရှင်တော်မြတ်ကြီး". Naypyitaw Development Committee (in Burmese). Retrieved 27 October 2018.
3. "မဟာသကျရံသီဘုရား". ACE Construction Group. Retrieved 27 October 2018.