Palin (throne)

and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi seated in the backdrop of a palin in Naypyidaw. Traditional Burmese scholarship recognizes six types of thrones, namely: • () – the Buddha's throne • () – Brahma's throne • () – nat's throne • () – monarch's throne • () – Buddhist monk's throne • () – judge's throne == Usage by Burmese monarchs ==

and Queen Supayalat seated on The Bumblebee Throne in Glass Hall at Mandalay Palace In pre-colonial times, the (Burmese yazapalin) seated the sovereign and his chief consort. Traditionally, Burmese palaces possessed eight types of thrones, housed in nine palace halls, leading to the Burmese adage, "eight thrones, nine palace halls" (ပလ္လင်ရှစ်ခန်း ရွှေနန်းကိုးဆောင်). from Mandalay Palace was preserved and is now displayed at the National Museum of Myanmar in Yangon. The thrones were carved of wood, specifically by hereditary palace carpenters. An auspicious time was chosen by astrologers to commence operations, and construction of these thrones was heralded by a royal ceremony to propitiate spirits. The thrones were also grouped by height, as follows: • (မဟာပလ္လင်) – • (မဇ္စျိမပလ္လင်) – • (စူဠပလ္လင်) – Below is a list of these eight types of thrones: == Usage in Buddhism ==

. The palin is also used to seat images and statues of the Buddha, variously called gaw palin (ဂေါ့ပလ္လင်), phaya palin (ဘုရားပလ္လင်) or samakhan (စမ္မခဏ်), from the Pali term . This palin is a feature of many Buddhist household shrines in Burma. == References ==