[1] Shein Makkar is located about 26 miles (42 km) away from Mandalay at Wetlet Township in Sagaing Region.

[2] When King Mindon toured the country in 1862, he arrived at the Shein Makkar and had a chance to pay homage to Sayadaw U Jāgara, the coming Shwegyin Sayadaw originated one.

[1] King Mindon donated and built monasteries and buildings there in the forest with stone caves where Sayadaw meditated and old religious buildings could be observed as origin as its ancient times infrastructure.

[2][3] King Mindon was designated the Shein Makkar forest at Burma's first wildlife sanctuary in 1862.

The area is managed by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation.