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Title: Among the Burmans; a record of fifteen years of work and its fruitage
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Cochrane, Henry Park, 1856-1943
Subjects: Burma -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York : F.H. Revell Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Indian Gov-ernment. A large city, regularly laid out withstraight wide streets, was already flourishing out-side of the walled section. Within the walls thepalace and monasteries still remain, the formernow being restored by the provincial govern-ment, at great expense. Services of the Churchof England are held in one of the large halls.In one of the buildings near the palace theMandalay Club is comfortably established.Several old cannon, used by the Burmese intheir wars, more for the noise they could makethan for any death-dealing powers they possessed,now adorn the grounds. The kings monastery,and the queens monastery, are objects of inter-est. Near the former is the site of the Incomparable temple, destroyed by fire in1892. This immense structure, with its gildedcolumns and lofty ceiling, was the grandestbuilding in the city. Near by is a huge pagodawithin a high rectangular wall. The space en-closed is subdivided into three compartments bylow walls extending around the pagoda, to
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Chief Races of Burma 91 represent the threefold division of the Buddhistscriptures. These spaces contain seven hundredand twenty shrines about fifteen feet high, theirtops supported by four columns. In the centreof each shrine, set like a gravestone in thecement floor, is a stone tablet about three feetwide by five and a half feet high, covered onboth sides with portions of the sacred writings.The floor around each tablet is polished by thebare feet of many devotees,—for the Law isone of the three precious things of Bud-dhism—commanding their worship. For all thisimmense outlay of time and money devoted tosacred objects Mindon Min is supposed to havesecured the royal merit, freeing him from thecountless existences through which the ordinarymortal must pass. The prevailing impressionthat as a result of the monastic school system allof the Burmese males can read and write, is notcorroborated by the recent census. A little lessthan half (490 in each i ,000) are able to both readand w

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