In this article, I examine the establishment and artistic style of the Ananda Temple, one of the most beautiful and important Buddhist temples in the Bagan region of Myanmar. The temple was built by the famous King Kyanzitta for the eight Pacceca Buddhas visiting his palace from the Sacred Himalayan region. This temple's sculptural and architectural style is similar to the art of the Pala period in late Indian Buddhism. However, iconographic features of sculptures in the temple represent the eccentric cultural syncretism of Indian and Burmese contemporary Buddhist art, while also expressing original and traditional Burmese Theravada Buddhism. There are no available inscriptions on the exact construction of the Ananda Temple, but the historical story of the Glass Palace Chronicle and the traditional legend of the temple itself told that the background of the temple construction was Theravada Buddhism and Buddhist Kingship of King Kyanzitta. However, according to its artistic style deeply related with Indian Pala Buddhist Art, it is likely to have been built in the early twelfth century CE during the later period of King Kyanzitta. This is around the same time that King Kyanzitta sent Burmese monks to Eastern India in support of the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodhgaya and other important Buddhist monasteries for his Buddhist kingship.