Guanyin Gumiao Temple is one of two major Chinese temples located in Latha Township

Latha Township

Latha Township is located in the western part of downtown Yangon, and shares borders with Lanmadaw township in the west, Pabedan township in the east, Seikkan township and Yangon river in the south, and Dagon township in the north. It consists of ten wards and is home to three primary schools, one...

 in Yangon

Yangon

Yangon is a former capital of Burma and the capital of Yangon Region . Although the military government has officially relocated the capital to Naypyidaw since March 2006, Yangon, with a population of over four million, continues to be the country's largest city and the most important commercial...

's Chinatown. It was founded by the Cantonese community

Burmese Chinese

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 of Yangon in 1823, but was destroyed by a fire in December I855, and subsequently rebuilt in 1864, with two additional brick buildings to the side built in 1872. The temple is dedicated to Guanyin, a Buddhist bodhisattva

Bodhisattva

In Buddhism, a bodhisattva is either an enlightened existence or an enlightenment-being or, given the variant Sanskrit spelling satva rather than sattva, "heroic-minded one for enlightenment ." The Pali term has sometimes been translated as "wisdom-being," although in modern publications, and...

 analogous to the Burmese Buddhist boddhisattva Avalokiteśvara

Avalokitesvara

Avalokiteśvara is a bodhisattva who embodies the compassion of all Buddhas. He is one of the more widely revered bodhisattvas in mainstream Mahayana Buddhism....

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See also

• Kheng Hock Keong Temple
  Kheng Hock Keong Temple
  Kheng Hock Keong Temple , located on the corner of Sintodan Street and Strand Road in Latha Township, Yangon , Burma , is the largest and oldest Chinese Buddhist and Taoist temple dedicated to the Chinese goddess Mazu in Yangon. It was originally built as a wooden temple in 1861 and completed in 1863...
  
  
• Fushan Si Temple
  Fushan Si Temple
  Fushan Si Temple , located on Kaba Aye Pagoda Road in Bahan Township, Yangon, is a Hokkien Chinese temple founded in January 1875 by overseas Chinese with ancestry from Anxi County in Fujian Province. The temple is managed by the Kheng Hock Keong Temple in downtown Yangon. Fushan Si is dedicated to...
  
  
• Long Shan Tang Temple
  Long Shan Tang Temple
  Long Shan Tang Temple is a Hokkien Chinese clan temple located on Anawrahta Road in Latha Township, part of Yangon's Chinatown. It was founded by members of the Tseng and Khoo clans from Fujian province in 1877. The temple is dedicated to ancestor worship.-See also:*Fushan Si Temple*Guanyin...