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Posted in Oddities, Religion by Greg Ross on April 29th, 2006

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The Kyaiktiyo pagoda is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in Myanmar. The pagoda, 18 feet tall, purportedly contains a hair of the Buddha. Believers claim that the boulder on which it sits, now completely gilded, has perched like this for 2,500 years, and that a thread can be passed beneath it if it's rocked gently. Let's not find out.