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Amerapoora: Toung-lay-lou-tiy Kyoung
Linnaeus Tripe British
Not on view
Most of the monasteries Tripe encountered in Burma were made of wood, but a few monumental brick monasteries, such as this one, were constructed in the eighteenth century. In this photograph, he focused on the massive staircase, with its sweeping balustrades and profuse ornamentation. The name Tripe recorded, Toung-lay-lou-tiy, may be a corruption of Taung leh lon ("four mountains"), for Amerapoora was understood, like the sacred mountain in Burmese cosmology, to be surrounded by four peaks.
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