Jun 16, 2011

Photographs of Global Vipassana Pagoda

(updated January 6, 2012)


Global Vipassana Pagoda, steps leading up to main entrance

December 23, 2011. Photograph by Ashok M.Karnad. More Global Pagoda photos from this Picasa Album

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Myanmar Gate, seen from atop main entrance steps to Global Pagoda

Photograph by Ashok M.Karnad. More Global Pagoda photos from this Picasa Album

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Global Pagoda, seen from near Dhamma Pattana Vipassana Centre

December 23, 2011. Photograph by Ashok M.Karnad. More Global Pagoda photos from this Picasa Album


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View of Global Vipassana Pagoda from ferry
Photo by Adi, October 9, 2011
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Global Vipassana Pagoda as seen from the Borivili National Park, Borivili (East).

Photograph taken on October 4, 2011. From mumbai-eyed.blogspot.com
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The Myanmar Gate entrance to the Global Vipassana Pagoda. The entrance, under construction, is similar to the entrance to Dhamma Giri, Igatpuri, and is built as a Dhamma symbol of gratitude to Burma that preserved the teaching of Vipassana in its purity for over 2,000 years.

Photography by Ramachandran K, September 1, 2011. More Global Pagoda photographs in this Picasso Album

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Vipassana meditators inside the Inner Dome Dhamma Hall of the Global Pagoda. An architectural wonder as the world's largest stone dome without any supporting pillars, the Global Pagoda Dhamma Hall can seat around 8,000 Vipassana students at a time.

(Photograph from Afternoon Despatch & Courier, June 6, 2011. Article A Monumental Wonder )

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Art Gallery of the Global Pagoda : Containing the world's single largest collection of paintings on the life of SammasamBuddha Gotama. The beautiful, intricate paintings are by leading artists from Burma and India.

(Photograph from Afternoon Despatch & Courier, June 6, 2011. Article A Monumental Wonder)
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Bell Tower of the Global Pagoda
(Photograph by Ambar Sexena, April 26, 2011. More Global Pagoda photographs from this Google Picasa Album )
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Global Vipassana Pagoda at night

( Photograph by SajeevKumarC, May 8 2011 )
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Global Pagoda as seen from the ferry jetty

(edited) Photograph by Mary Koliva, February 25, 2011
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Main Entrance to Global Pagoda

(Photograph by Joe Ravi, January 8, 2011, CC-BY-SA 3.0)

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Motif of Global Vipassana Pagoda, by artisans from Burma
(Photograph by Joe Ravi, January 8, 2011, CC-BY-SA 3.0)

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Centre of the ceiling of Inner Dome Dhamma Hall of Global Pagoda. The Dhamma Wheel marks the spot where the Sammasambuddha Gotama's bone relics are preserved

(Photograph by Joe Ravi, January 8, 2011, CC-BY-SA 3.0)
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For More Photographs of the Global Vipassana Pagoda :
http://globalpagoda.blogspot.com/2011/02/global-pagoda-recent-photographs.html

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