Abstract
On a little hill just north of Burma’s chief city, set in the wide green expanse of the Irrawaddy delta region, stands the great golden pagoda, the Shwe Dagon. Its tip is roughly the height above ground of the tip of the dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, and the sight of it in the brilliant sunshine invites the obvious and frequently used simile of a gigantic golden flame leaping up into the Burmese sky. Somewhere in the base of the central massive cone of the pagoda are said to be enshrined some hairs of the Buddha. This makes it a place of great sanctity to the Buddhist, and to this pagoda come the ordinary people of Burma in their thousands.
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