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Kuthodaw Pagoda (Burmese: ကုသုိလ္တော္ဘုရား, officially titled မဟာလောကမာရဇိန္စေတီ) is a Theravada Buddhist stupa located in Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma) that contains the world's largest book. It is located adjacent to Mandalay Hill and was built during the reign of Mindon Min. The stupa itself, which is gilded above its terraces, is 188 feet high. It is modelled after the Shwezigon Pagoda at Nyaung U. Within the compounds of the pagoda are 729 shrines, each containing a marble slab with text from the Tipitaka. The pagoda was constructed from 1860-1869.
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