A consecration ceremony and the
hoisting of the golden umbrella, vane and diamond bud atop Botahtaung Pagoda in
Botahtaung Township, Yangon, was held yesterday morning.
The attendees received the Nine
Precepts from Yangon Region Thanlyin Minkyaung Monastery Sayadaw of Bhaddanta
Sandima Bhivamsa.
The members of the Sangha recited the
parittas.
The congregators, led by Amyotha
Hluttaw Deputy Speaker U Aye Tha Aung, Union Minister for Religious Affairs and
Culture Thura U Aung Ko, Union Minister for Natural Resources and Environmental
Conservation U Ohn Win, Yangon Region Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein and wife,
and donors handed over the diamond bud, the vane and the golden umbrella, as
well as offertories. The Amyotha Hluttaw deputy speaker, union ministers, the
Yangon Region chief minister and wife, the Yangon Region Hluttaw speaker and
regional ministers and donors conveyed the diamond bud, the umbrella and the
vane around the pagoda clockwise. The religious objects were then fixed with
the pagoda before the members of the Sangha consecrated the pagoda.
Myanmar News Agency
Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar
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