Given their alienation from their government, the temples are a second home to many Burmese. Another factor that the government is trying to discourage, i.e too many people in one place who are not favorably disposed toward their obviously useless and repressive government.
The presence of the clocks in every temple building is puzzling to me.
Over the millennia many structures were built surrounding the great pagoda.
This amused me, a LED halo that actually pulsed.

 

Shwedagon

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