Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1918 — Old Buildings In Far East. [ARTICLE]

Old Buildings In Far East.

Of the many strange buildings and tempies in the far T3ast. says a writer in the Wide World, there are none more wonderful than the 430 temples of the law at Mandalay, in upper Burma, known as the Riithcldaw, “Royal Merit” The group coairlsfs of a large central pagoda surrounded by hundreds of smaller white temples or ohrtaes. They were erected by Ain-shay-min, who ascended the throne on the death of his brother !n 1837. The latte? was cruelly murdered by his two nephews, and It nppte.’u that this very much affected the row king. Mot only did he devote his energies to pence, but erected this strsnge group of temples, each one of which contains a slab on which Is engraved a portton of the Buddhist Bible. The holy tablets are made of soft mnible or alaoaster, each slab being about the size cf a large, old-fash-iuned upright tombstone. On both sides are .engraved chapters from the Buddhist scripture*. Over every slab is erected a canopy surmounted by a gilded framework of metal witn small tinkling bells. The temples are situated in u beautiful wooded valley and seen from the surrounding hills tn.«y proeeM a fa cinatlng picture.