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The Glass Palace of Hna-Kyeik-Shit-Su

The Hna-Kyeik-Shit-Su Shrine, built in 1888 by U Nar Auk, consists of two parts. The front portion comprises the main hall, which is surrounded by a corridor and roofed by a nine-tiered pyathat or spire, while the back portion, with its lower pyathat roof of five tiers, is the shrine proper. The corridor outside this hall has a series of relief carvings, displayed just under the ceiling, depicting the life of the Buddha. Similar carvings, illustrating the sometimes bloody and macabre histories of Bagan and Thaton, the old Mon capital city, are displayed within the hall proper. The many pillars inside and outside the hall are all covered by glass mosaic work of varying patterns. Festoons of carved floral patterns stretch across the upper portions of the spaces between the pillars, and similar floral carvings stretch as a band between the pillers just above the relief carvings. The ceilings are decoratively subdivided into square and triangular patterns; those over the central hall being etched with glass mosaic and variously painted in gold and other colours while those over the corridors incorporate traditional floral patterns painted in red and gold.