Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple

The temple is located about northwest of Kyaukse on the road leading to the town of Tada-U. It is near Kyaung Pangon and Nyaung Pin Sauk villages. ==History==

The first one-storey temple was built by King Anawrahta in the 11th century, and his grandson King Narapatisithu made it with double storey cave temple decorated Jataka stories on the upper terrace in the 12th century, and finally the whole was encased in the 14th century by King Uzana, and further protected by nature. Over the years this became hidden underneath a hill, which in 1915 was topped by a new stupa. In 1993 some traces of an ancient brick structure were detected at the foot of the hill, but permission to excavate was only granted in 2008 due to concerns that doing so would damage the encasing stupa. In 2015, the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture designated Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple as an ancient heritage site of Myanmar. The pagoda was damaged during the 2025 Myanmar earthquake. ==Gallery==

File:Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple - panoramio (5).jpg|Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple. File:Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple - panoramio (11).jpg|Stone images featuring flora and mythical creature motifs in relief, similar in craftsmanship to those found in Bagan. File:Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple - panoramio (14).jpg|Stone-carved images File:Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple - panoramio (12).jpg|Reclining Buddha in the temple. File:Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple - panoramio (9).jpg|Buddha statues. File:Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple - panoramio.jpg|Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple compound in 2016. == References ==