About the product:

📚 Name/Type: Book - 138 pages - The Holy Places of Spirituality - Burma 'The Arcana of Shwedagon' - Cultural and religious landscape of Burma (Myanmar), highlighting the Shwedagon Pagoda

🙌 Author: Patrick de Wilde, published by ROBERT LAFFONT

🌍 Origin: France

📝 Language: French

✨ Year/Condition: 1986 - Good condition

📐 Dimensions: ± 29.5 x 23 x 2 centimeters

⚖️ Weight: ± 990 grams

📦 Packaging: Individually wrapped in paper

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📌 Description and content

The author offers a visual and immersive journey to the heart of the Shwedagon Pagoda (in Yangon) and more broadly of Burma (now Myanmar), to convey "the admirable beauty and atmosphere of religiosity of this country, the extraordinary cultural, artistic and religious richness of a nation of 36 million inhabitants."

The book is both a beautifully illustrated volume and a testament to the country: it highlights sacred spaces, temples, pagodas, and stupas, as well as Buddhist religious practices and the symbols that structure Burmese spiritual life. It focuses particularly on the Shwedagon Pagoda, an emblem of Burma's religious soul.

Beyond its aesthetic appeal, the book conveys the intensity of belief, the weight of tradition, and the site's capacity to embody the history of a country rich in spirituality. It invites the reader to immerse themselves in the atmosphere (the colors of gold, the rituals, the fervor) rather than simply relying on a purely factual description.

In short, it is a book that lies at the crossroads of photographic reportage and reflection on Burmese spiritual culture — relatively little known at the time of publication.