မဟာဂန္ဓာရုံကျောင်းတိုက် — Attraction in Mandalay District

One of the treasures of Myanmar "Htera Warda" Buddha teaching centre for young monks. Managed under the rules of Buddha Ethics where more than one thousand trainees and teachers are staying. We take care not to make a noise in the monastery where silence prevails. There are 10 displines for a trainee monk in the monastery. The first one is to have a good mind in one's heart. Monks have to sit for entrance exams to enter the monastery as a student. There are all the year round charity for breakfast and lunch for them: they do not need to walk around the homes for alms. They can pay more time...

Maha Gandayone Monastery, It was located in Amarapura ancient city along the eastern bank of the Taung Tha Man Lake. Maha means great and Gandayone means smell. So its means great smell monastery in Myanmar. In Myanmar, there are two types of monastery. Meditation monastery and Buddha's letcure teaching monastery. It is a famous teaching monastery. In there, you can see way of life of the Buddhist monks and the food offering ceremony in everymorning. It already start at 10:30am. So if you visit to there, you have to go at...

Just a 30 min car ride outside of Mandalay, sits Mahagandhayon Monastery, the largest monestary in Myanmar/Burma. Several thousand, many of them young, monks, live here, spending their time studying and praying. The place is quite busy with tourists, especially during the 10 a.m. alm giving ceremony, when food and other necessities are donated by villagers and tourists alike and monks stand in long lines to receive their lunch. It's commercialised but still a nice place to visit and watch the monks going about their...