High Middle Ages · Southeast Asia · Culture
1111
Ananda Temple completed at Pagan
1111
King Kyansittha's architectural masterwork rose complete above the dusty Burmese plain at Pagan - a perfectly symmetrical cruciform temple housing four colossal standing Buddhas facing the cardinal directions, each over thirty feet tall. Gilded inside and out, adorned with hundreds of glazed terracotta tiles illustrating the Jataka tales, it became the spiritual heart of Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia.
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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