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TIL in 1868 King Mindon of Myanmar commissioned the Burmese-language Buddhist canon to be written on 729 stone tablets, each 1 meter tall. Each tablet is housed in its own structure at Kuthodaw pagoda in Mandalay. Although now black, the letters were originally inscribed in gold.

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