Kanagamana Buddha

Devas in Bagan Period costumes flank this East facing image in the later Mandalay style.  It replaces an original destroyed by a fire started by candles placed there by pilgrims, or by temple robbers, nobody can be sure.

Seven rows of arched niches for displaying Buddha  images adorn the corridors for which the architects devised a perfect plan to allow in light and ventilation. 

As always the vendors await. 

Next to Ananda is the Vihara, one of a few monasteries which survived, as it is built of brick.  The interior murals are some of the best in Bagan, we hired a young guide who was superb and made the visit most memorable.  The key holder was upset because we gave the boy a bigger tip and he bullied the boy into giving him most of it.  I was quite upset, but I guess I do not understand the hierarchy.