High Middle Ages · Southeast Asia · Religion
1095
Pagan Kingdom Reaches Peak Temple Construction
1095
Under successive kings following Anawrahta's legacy, the Pagan kingdom's religious construction reached a crescendo. The Shwezigon Pagoda - begun by Anawrahta and completed by his son Kyanzittha - rose as the kingdom's crowning Buddhist monument, its golden stupa visible for miles across the Irrawaddy plain. The pagoda's design synthesized Mon, Indian, and Burmese traditions into a form that would become the prototype for Burmese pagoda architecture for centuries to come.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.