Nga Phe Kyaung Monastery, Inle Lake

The Nga Phe Kyaung is the biggest and oldest monastery in Inle Lake.

It is a beautiful wooden structure that was built on stilts over the lake at the end of the 1850s. The monastery is home to a collection of ancient Bagan, Shan, Tibet and Ava-style Buddha images.

However, it’s most famous for the jumping cats. An abbot at the monastery has trained the cats to jump through a hoop like in a circus.

Monastery seen from the northeast.

North entrance to the monastery.

North pavilion with reclining Buddha statue.

Shan style Buddha statue (right).

Main Buddha statue in the north pavilion.

Throne carved in wood with the Buddhist Dharma wheel with lions on both sides.

Exhibitor offering japamalas.
A japamala, jaap maala, or simply mala (meaning 'garland') is a loop of prayer beads commonly used in Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, for counting recitations (japa) of mantras, prayers or other sacred phrases.

The main body of a mala is usually 108 beads of roughly the same size and material as each other though smaller versions, often factors of 108 such as 54 or 27, exist.
A distinctive 109th "guru bead" or mother bead, which is not counted, is very common.
See more at Japamala - Wikipedia.