3x-xx-xx ep012 The Costliest Temple in the World

The costliest temple in the world. Rangoon, where the splash of paddle steamers from Rangoon to Mandalay, mingles endlessly with a mystic chanting of Buddhist priests. We of Christian faith can never penetrate the mystery of India and Burma, or understand the faith inspired by the ascetic teachings of the Prophet Buddha who lived over 500 years

before Christ. But if we go to Rangoon, we can see the shrine of Shweidha Gond, erected to Buddha, and learn from the priests its amazing secret. They are the priests chanting the prayers of Buddha.

They alone are allowed here, for it is sacred ground. This is the shrine of Shweadha Gaun, blessed and sublime, which has stood for twenty-five hundred years as a tribute to the Buddha. Listen to the music of the bells.

They call to the all-hires day and night for centuries that have gone and for centuries to come. See the countless emeralds and rubies that glisten in the sun from the narrow top of the bell-shaped temper.

Those were placed there by a million humble hearts to give thanks to the mercy of the Buddha. You will wonder who built this way, Dargorn. Listen, and you shall hear the story. It is about 550 years before Christ.

brothers, to Powell and who, wealth in merchants of India, are leading the caravan of precious stones and spices through the cedars and teakwood trees of the poorest of Benares. It is dark in this forest of Benares or to Powell.

Yes, it is dark, but the Buddha himself lives here, and we must stop the caravan for him to give us his blessing. Do you think to Powell that he would give us a relic so that we might hold it sacred?