"Dagon pagoda, near Rangoon, Burma." (Yangon, Myanmar.) Colored aquatint by William Daniell after James Kershaw, c. 1831. The Shwedagon Pagoda, officially named Shwedagon Zedi Daw and also known as the Great Dagon Pagoda and the Golden Pagoda, is a gilded stupa located in Yangon, Myanmar. This pagoda is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar, as it is believed to contain relics of the four previous Buddhas of the present kalpa.