Yadana Manaung Kaunghmudaw Pagoda

The Yadana Manaung Kaunghmudaw Pagoda lies on the route of the royal barge in Nyaung Shwe, Southern Shan State as one of the 84,000 pagodas built by King Thiri Dhamma Thawka. It was renovated in Sakarit 721 by the Saopha of Hsiseng as he built Nyaung Shwe. It was further renovated by successive kings, finally by King Mindon's son, Saopha Sao Maung in the present name, of Yadana Manaung.

In 1274, there was a big earthquake that felled the pagoda. It was renovated by Sao Maung himself to a height of 70 cubits and 160 cubits in girth that it has today as a pagoda encased in glass and golden structure. In the Tazaungs, there is Yadana Manaung image with genuine relics, consecrated with a great deal of gold in the east Lokawidhu Yadana Oushaung Image in the south, Yadanatazaung with the hands placed together in the west and Buddha Image with one hand turned, upward and one hand turned down flanked by eight Arahantas in the north. In the Tazaungs. Buddha Images were there to represent 32 Buddhas from Tahningara to Gautama.