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Pagan Temple City

Type Object Region Asia Time c. 1044–1287

A Buddhist religious city built by the Pagan dynasty in the mid-12th century on the middle Irrawaddy plain, whose thousands of brick stupas, murals, …

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  1. c. 1044–1100Pagan plain · PaganAnawrahta unified the Irrawaddy basin and promoted Theravada Buddhism, building early stupas such as Shwezigon on the Pagan plain and inaugurating the dynasty's tradition of religious city-building.
  2. c. 1171–1180Pagan temple group · PaganAround 1175, during the reign of Narathihapate, many stupas and temples were built; structures such as the Sulamani Temple represent the maturity of Pagan's brick-stupa craft and mural art, and the city's religious landscape reached its greatest density.
  3. c. 1200–1287Ancient city of Pagan · MyanmarAfter internal division within the Pagan dynasty and the Yuan invasion in the 13th century, the capital lost its status as a political center, but the thousands of surviving stupas on the plain became the core heritage of Myanmar's Buddhist art and architectural history.

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