• symbols instead of Burmese script. The Great Bell of Dhammazedi (Burmese: ဓမ္မစေတီခေါင်းလောင်းကြီး [dəma̰zèdì kʰáʊɰ̃láʊɰ̃ dʑí]) was a bronze bell, believed...
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  • tons, the Great Bell of Dhammazedi is the largest bell to have existed in recorded history. Cast in 1484 by King Dhammazedi of Mon, this bell was located...
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    report different dates for the key events of his life. Dhammazedi Road, a road in Yangon. Great Bell of Dhammazedi Kalyani Inscriptions (Maha Yazawin Vol...
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    Palace of Westminster which popularized it as the measure used by Big Ben. The Great Bell of Dhammazedi (1484) may have been the largest bell ever made...
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    A standing bell or resting bell is an inverted bell, supported from below with the rim uppermost. Such bells are normally bowl-shaped, and exist in a...
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  • 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2017. "The search for Myanmar's mysterious Dhammazedi Bell". BBC News. 18 August 2014. Archived from the original on 11 November...
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  • 930,000. Nominee Best Costume Design – BAFTA (Anthony Mendleson) Great Bell of Dhammazedi "MOVIES: Baby from Belgrade". Los Angeles Times. 15 September 1963...
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    men took the 300-ton Great Bell of Dhammazedi, donated in 1485 by the Mon King Dhammazedi. De Brito's intention was to melt the bell down to make cannons...
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    The Japanese Peace Bell is a bell donated to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City via the United Nations Association of Japan in June 1954...
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    device in 1481. In 1497, Simone Campanato moulded the great bell, which was put on the top of the tower where it is alternately beaten by the Due Mori...
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    His men took the 300-ton Great Bell of Dhammazedi using elephants and forced labour. De Brito's intention was to melt the bell down to make cannons. but...
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    Pazundaung Creek have high concentrations of Burmese Indians. The Great Bell of Dhammazedi, one of the largest bells in the world, sank into the creek in 1608...
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    church bells in the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, all of which are mounted in the two main bell towers. Notre-Dame used to have other smaller bells in...
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  • of Dagon. 1460 - Palace built by Mon Queen Shin Sawbu. 1484 - Great Bell of Dhammazedi presented. 1583 - Italian merchant, Gasparo Balbi visits. 1755...
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    Bonshō (category Bells (percussion))
    Bonshō (梵鐘, Buddhist bells), also known as tsurigane (釣り鐘, hanging bells) or ōgane (大鐘, great bells) are large bells found in Buddhist temples throughout...
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    The World Peace Bell Association (WPBA) is a Japanese organisation which attempts to raise awareness of the World peace movement by casting and installing...
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    size replica of the Liberty Bell. The replica bell was cast by Whitechapel Bell Foundry, the casters of the original bell for the Pennsylvania State House...
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    bells were donated by Boris Godunov to the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra. In 1621, Andrey Chokhov and other masters cast four bells for the Ivan the Great Bell...
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  • Grandsire Grassmayr Bell Foundry Great Bell of Dhammazedi Great Tom (bell) The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America Guild of St Magnus Harmonic series...
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    Pieter and François Hemony (category Bell foundries)
    present-day Champagne-Ardenne, France) into a family of bell founders who travelled throughout Europe to cast bells. It is likely that they relocated their business...
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  • raise the Dhammazedi Bell from the Yangon River. The bell had been commissioned by King Dhammazedi in 1484 as a gift to the Shwedagon Pagoda of Dagon (Yangon)...
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    footsteps of Dhammazedi, he supervised mass ordinations at the Kalyani Ordination Hall at Pegu in his orthodox Theravada Buddhism in the name of purifying...
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    Temple erected by king Dhammazedi in Bago, Myanmar, (1476 AD) Inscribed bronze figure of a Buddha from Fang District, part of a large SE Asian collection...
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    to the Kalyani Inscriptions, Dhammazedi carried out an extensive reform of the Buddhist sangha by sending thousands of Buddhist monks to Sri Lanka to...
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    Mawlamyine (category Township capitals of Myanmar)
    referred as Moulmeinian. According to Kalyani Inscriptions erected by King Dhammazedi of Hanthawaddy Pegu in 1479, Mawlamyine was mentioned among the ‘32 myo’...
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  • Dhammayangyi Temple Dhammayazika Pagoda Dhammayietra Dhammayuttika Nikaya Dhammazedi Dhammika Sutta Dhammikarama Burmese Temple Dharani Dhardo Rimpoche Dharma/Dhamma...
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    architect (b. c. 1450) Dhammazedi, Burmese king of Hanthawaddy (b. 1409) Eric Clauesson, Swedish Norse pagan Satal Rathore, Rao of Marwar Sonni Ali, Songhai...
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