Utha Kyaung Tite
is a Buddhist monastery with a school for novices,
located on the outskirts of Meiktilai. Whereas the
school buildings consist of more modern structures, the
temple complex has a number of older structures too.
Included are
several
pagodas in various styles,
set in a spacious garden adorned with some
sugar palms
and
coconut palm
trees. There is also
a platform with a sacred
bodhi tree.
Utha Kyaung Tite
Utha Kyaung Tite
The
bodhi
tree is surrounded by eight
Buddha images
in combination with
eight
animals from the Burmese system of an
animal-per-day (fig.).