#FullMoonDay of #Thadingyut is one of the most important day in #Myanmar. It is a #Buddhist holiday that celebrates the coming of Buddha back from heaven after he had stayed there during Buddhist Lent, teaching his mother and other heavenly gods his various laws and doctrines.
Ruins of European-style buildings in the Old Summer Palace, 1875, by Thomas Child.
Known as Yuanming Yuan, reputed as the "Garden of Gardens" in NW Beijing, main imperial residence in the Qing dynasty, burned in Oct. 1860, by Anglo-French force during the Second Opium War.