Mandalay is Burma's cultural and religious center of Buddhism, having
numerous monasteries and more than 700 pagodas. At the foot of Mandalay
Hill sits the world's official "Buddhist Bible", also known as
the world’s largest book, in Kuthodaw Pagoda. There are 729 slabs of
stone that together are inscribed with the entire Buddhist canon, each
housed in its own white stupa. The buildings inside the old Mandalay city
walls, surrounded by a moat, which was
