Apart from the huge golden bowl, the most famous one in Mahanu Temple is the huge Buddha statue. On the front are three giant sitting Buddhas, and on the back are a giant sleeping Buddha up to 20 meters long. Full of contrary feeling, the temple building itself is not as magnificent as other temples in Pugan. The space is so narrow as to be broken by Buddha statues. You have to take your stomach in side to get through. Walking in the meantime, you don't feel empty and depressed afterwards - that's the mentality of King Manuha, the builder of the Buddhist temple, 1,000 years ago. King Manuha was originally the King of Thaton, a small Mongol state in lower Myanmar. He lost to Pugan in the war and became a captive himself. Empress Li wrote poems after he became a captive of the Song Dynasty, while King Manuha began to build temples after he became a captive of Pugan. Speaking of it, Manuha's temple is also one of the origins of Buddhism in Upper Myanmar.