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A GOLDEN PAGODA

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 6, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 1.

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A GOLDEN PAGODA.

AT Rangoon, the capital of Burma, is situated the famous golden pagoda of a Buddhist temple, the whole of the exterior of which is one mass of shimmering gold. This generous coating of the metal is the result of years and years of votive offerings to Buddha, for devotees from all parts of the world go to Rangoon and take packets of gold-leaf, which they place on the pagoda. During the last century Tshewbyo-Yen, the king of Burma, gave his weight in gold to the walls of the pagoda, an offering worth $45,000.