Rangoon: Henzas on the East Side of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda November 1855 Linnaeus Tripe British Taken from the wide platform on which the Shwe Dagon Pagoda rested, this photograph shows four wooden posts topped with carvings of birds that constituted pious offerings. Burmese art featured various birds, including the hintha, which Tripe called "henza." Usually identified as a duck or goose, the hintha appears in tales of the previous lives of Gautama. In one of these stories, Gautama takes the form of a hintha and offers guidance to a king regarding the importance of royal benevolence—appropriat
Rangoon: Henzas on the East Side of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda November 1855 Linnaeus Tripe British Taken from the wide platform on which the Shwe Dagon Pagoda rested, this photograph shows four wooden posts topped with carvings of birds that constituted pious offerings. Burmese art featured various birds, including the hintha, which Tripe called "henza." Usually identified as a duck or goose, the hintha appears in tales of the previous lives of Gautama. In one of these stories, Gautama takes the form of a hintha and offers guidance to a king regarding the importance of royal benevolence—appropriate to this site in Burma’s royal Rangoon: Henzas on the East Side of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda 302660
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