here were four main a divisions in a traditional wooden monastery consist in a of principal shrine room or an adjoining intermediate area(sanu-hsaung), which may serve as a room for the abbot and or as a passageway between the shrine and the gavernous main room(hsaung-margvi, and a smaller apartment at the western end which usually served as a Storeroom (baw-ga-hsaung). The edifice was usually surrounded by a wide veranda or zin-gyan where monks could take their daily exercise. To emphasize the hallowed nature of the building each apartment was marked externally by a set of dislitatve multi-storeyed roofs Like most wooden buildings in Burma monasteries were only one storey high. Due to the sacred nature of the head, the Burmese traditionally have not liked the idea of other people domiciled above them