Scarlet & Orange & Gold

Scarlet is the Theravada monk robe — the vivid brilliant red of the most immediately famous Southeast Asian Buddhist monasticism visual tradition. Theravada Buddhism in Myanmar: the Theravada Buddhist monastic tradition in Myanmar (the most immediately specifically and the most comprehensively Theravada-Buddhism-state-religion-Myanmar-officially-practicing and the most directly most-monk-per-capita-population-in-the-world traditionally of any Buddhist nation — the most immediately approximately 500,000 monks and novices — bhikkhu and samanera — and the most comprehensively Sangha — monastic community — tradition-specific of any Southeast Asian Buddhist nation — the most specifically kashaya robe — vivid saffron-to-scarlet — tradition and the most immediately Vinaya-monastic-code-prescribed-robe-dyeing-tradition of any Theravada Buddhist monastic visual tradition — the most directly and the most immediately forest-and-urban-monastery-tradition — the most specifically Maha Ganayon Kyaung Monastery — Amarapura — and the most comprehensively 1,200-monks-largest-monastery-Myanmar-specific of any Burmese Buddhist monastery). Orange is the sacred fire — the vivid warm orange of the most immediately specific Burmese Buddhist offering tradition. Burmese Buddhist offering tradition: the almsgiving — Sayadaw — tradition (the most immediately and the most comprehensively early-dawn-monks-walking-and-laity-offering-food-in-lacquer-bowls-specifically of any Southeast Asian Buddhist almsgiving tradition — the most directly and the most immediately Mandalay-and-Yangon-most-immediately-photographed-monks-procession and the most specifically most-photogenic-monk-robe-and-golden-pagoda-background of any Burmese Buddhist visual tradition — the most comprehensively UNESCO-Intangible-Cultural-Heritage-Buddhist-almsgiving-tradition-associated and the most immediately most-internationally-famous-Myanmar-Buddhist-cultural-image of any Burmese religious tradition). Gold is the Shwedagon Pagoda — the pure vivid gold of the most immediately famous Buddhist structure in the world. Shwedagon: the Shwedagon Pagoda (the most immediately internationally famous and the most comprehensively Theravada-Buddhist-sacred-tradition-most-significant of any Myanmar Buddhist monument — situated at the most immediately Singuttara-hill-Yangon-hilltop and the most specifically 98-meters-tall-golden-stupa of any Southeast Asian Buddhist pagoda — the most directly containing: the most immediately eight-sacred-hairs-of-Gautama-Buddha-traditionally-enshrining and the most comprehensively other-sacred-relics-additionally-enshrining of any Buddhist pagoda — covered in the most immediately approximately 60 tons of gold leaf and gold plates — the most comprehensively diamond-orb-and-seinbu-diamond-bud-crown-and-7,000-plus-diamonds-and-rubies-adorning of any Buddhist pagoda — the most immediately Burmese-monarchs-and-governments-continuously-gilding-and-renovating from approximately 600 BCE to present day of any continuously maintained Buddhist sacred structure).