Abstract
At about 40 km from Monywa, in the north-west of Central Burma, Po Win Taung [the hill of Po Win] is a huge, multi-level religious complex including some 800 excavations chiselled out of soft sandstone rock. The walls of the numerous grottoes are adorned with paintings which represent traditional scenes (the 28 Buddha of the Past, the previous lives of Buddha Gotama, and the Life of Buddha), scenes of daily life and a large variety of ornementations. Most of the paintings of Po Win Taung date from the second Ava period till the beginning of the Konbaung dynasty (16th-18th centuries). The Ava style is generally called "Nyaung Yan" as it started under the reign of the King Nyaung Yan (1597-1606) when the Burmese artistic production was reviving with numerous and original works showing the vigor of the Pagan period. The paintings of Po Win illustrate the Ava style at best, displaying the characteristics of the "Nyaung Yan" style as well as the various foreign influences (Chinese, Indian, Portuguese, Siamese, Muslim and Dutch) exerting on it.
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