One of the
best is at Rangoon on a hill, and it's called the Shway Dagohn
Pagoda. There's a lot of relics in it, and smaller temples around,
and strings of pilgrims coming from as far as Ceylon and China.
Remarkable holy place. Old Lo Tsin, he drops down there one day and
looks around. His fishy feelin's got interested, and he says to
himself, 'Guess I'll come into this.' He went sailin' up the river
till he found a king somewhere, who appeared to own the whole
country. This one's pastime was miscellaneous murder, but his taste
for tea was cultured and accurate. Then Lo Tsin got down on the floor
and kowtowed to this king for an hour and a half, the way it comes
natural if you have the right kind of clothes. Then he bought a
temple of him. It stands at the foot of the south stairway of the
Shway Dagohn. Fu Shan ain't sure what the old man's idea was, whether
it was pure business or not. Anyway he worked up the reputation of
the temple, till there was none in the place to equal it, except the
Shway Dagohn, which he didn't pretend to compete with. He advertised
it on his tea. 'Shan Brothers' have a brand still called 'Green
Dragon Pagoda Tea.' There wasn't no real doubt but the income of the
temple was large, and yet it didn't appear at Lo Tsin's death that
he'd ever drawn anything out of it.
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