Description:
"...Donald Stadtner brought the following piece of history regarding the Shwedagon to our attention and sent a
photograph of glasswork that recorded the event, together with the text below from Walter del Mar, The
Romantic East: Burma, Assam, & Kashmir (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1906, 27-28). We reproduce it
further below along with a detail of the glass painting, from a private collection in Yangon. The scene
depicts the incident quite literally , with the soldier climbing "to the roof of one of the smaller
shrines....." Although del Mar refers to the animal as a tiger, it was in actuality a tigress and the
events discussed below occurred on 3 March 1903, the tigress having moved to the vicinity of the
Shwedagon from Gyophu Lake..."
Source/publisher:
SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research 6, 2008
Date of Publication:
2008-12-00
Date of entry:
2010-10-03
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