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Abeyadana temple
Abeyadana temple is a 12th century Buddhist temple in Bagan, Myanmar.
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Abhidharma
Abhidharma (Sanskrit) or Abhidhamma (Pali) are ancient (3rd century BCE and later) Buddhist texts which contain detailed scholastic reworkings of doctrinal material appearing in the Buddhist sutras, according to schematic classifications.
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Anagarika
In Buddhism, an anagārika (Pali, "homeless one",; f. anagārikā) is a person who has given up most or all of his worldly possessions and responsibilities to commit full-time to Buddhist practice.
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Anawrahta
Anawrahta Minsaw (အနော်ရထာ မင်းစော,; 11 May 1014 – 11 April 1077) was the founder of the Pagan Empire.
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Ashes and Snow
Ashes and Snow by Canadian artist Gregory Colbert is an installation of photographic artworks, films, and a novel in letters that travels in the Nomadic Museum, a temporary structure built exclusively to house the exhibition.
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, and author, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1991).
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Ba Maw
Ba Maw (ဘမော်,; 8 February 1893 – 29 May 1977) was a Burmese political leader, active during the interwar and World War II period.
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Bhakti
Bhakti (भक्ति) literally means "attachment, participation, fondness for, homage, faith, love, devotion, worship, purity".
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Bhikkhuni
A bhikkhunī (Pali) or bhikṣuṇī (Sanskrit) is a fully ordained female monastic in Buddhism.
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Bo Bo Gyi
Bo Bo Gyi (ဘိုးဘိုးကြီး,; lit. "great grandfather") traditionally refers to the name of a guardian spirit (called nat) unique to each Burmese Buddhist temple or pagoda.
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Buddhaghoṣa
Buddhaghoṣa (พระพุทธโฆษาจารย์) was a 5th-century Indian Theravada Buddhist commentator and scholar.
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Buddhābhiseka
Buddhābhiseka (buddhābhiseka; buddhābhiṣeka) refers to a broad range of Buddhist rituals used to consecrate images of the Buddha and other Buddhist figures, such as bodhisattvas.
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Buddhism
Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.
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Buddhism by country
Buddhism is a religion practiced by an estimated 488 million in the world,Pew Research Center,.
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Buddhism in Southeast Asia
Buddhism in Southeast Asia includes a variety of traditions of Buddhism including two main traditions: Mahāyāna Buddhism and Theravāda Buddhism.
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Buddhist calendar
The Buddhist calendar is a set of lunisolar calendars primarily used in mainland Southeast Asian countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand as well as in Sri Lanka and Chinese populations of Malaysia and Singapore for religious or official occasions.
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Buddhist devotion
Devotion, a central practice in Buddhism, refers to commitment to religious observances or to an object or person, and may be translated with Sanskrit or Pāli terms like saddhā, gārava or pūjā.
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Buddhist prayer beads
Buddhist prayer beads or malas (Sanskrit: "garland"Apte, Vaman Shivram (1965), written at Delhi, The Practical Sanskrit Dictionary (Fourth revised and enlarged ed.), Motilal Banarsidass Publishers) are a traditional tool used to count the number of times a mantra is recited, breaths while meditating, counting prostrations, or the repetitions of a buddha's name.
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Burmese Americans
Burmese Americans (မြန်မာနွယ်ဖွား အမေရိကန်) are Americans of full or partial Burmese ancestry.
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Burmese calendar
The Burmese calendar (မြန်မာသက္ကရာဇ်,, or ကောဇာသက္ကရာဇ်,; Burmese Era (BE) or Myanmar Era (ME)) is a lunisolar calendar in which the months are based on lunar months and years are based on sidereal years.
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Burmese names
Burmese names lack the serial structure of most modern names.
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Burmese pagoda
Burmese pagodas are stupas that typically house Buddhist relics, including relics associated with Buddha.
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Clement Vismara
Blessed Father Clement Vismara (September 6, 1897, Agrate Brianza, Lombardy Italy – June 15, 1988, Mong Ping, Burma) was an Italian priest and missionary.
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Culture of Myanmar
The culture of Myanmar (also known as Burma) has been heavily influenced by Buddhism and the Mon people.
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Dasa sil mata
A dasa sil mata is an Eight- or Ten Precepts-holding anagārikā (lay renunciant) in Buddhism in Sri Lanka, where the newly reestablished bhikkhuni (nun's) lineage is not officially recognized yet.
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Deekshabhoomi
Deekshabhoomi is a sacred monument of Navayana Buddhism located where the architect of the Indian Constitution, B. R. Ambedkar, converted to Buddhism with approximately followers on Ashok Vijaya Dashami on 14 October 1956.
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Dwara Nikaya
Maha Dwara Nikaya (မဟာဒွာရနိကာယ,; also spelt Maha Dwaya Nikaya or Maha Dvara Nikaya is the name of a small monastic order of monks in Myanmar (Burma), numbering a three to four thousand monks, primarily in Lower Myanmar. This order is very conservative with respect to Vinaya regulations. It is one of 9 legally sanctioned monastic orders (nikaya) in the country, under the 1990 Law Concerning Sangha Organizations.
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Early Pagan Kingdom
Early Pagan Kingdom (ခေတ်ဦး ပုဂံ ပြည်) was a city-state that existed in the first millennium CE before the emergence of Pagan Empire in the mid 11th century.
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George West (bishop)
George Algernon West, MM (17 December 1893 – 25 May 1980) was a British Anglican missionary who spent many years in Burma, first as a missionary for the Society for Propagation of the Gospel and then as the Lord Bishop of Rangoon.
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Girihandu Seya
Girihandu Seya (also known as Nithupathpana Vihara)is an ancient Buddhist temple situated in Thiriyai, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.
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Glossary of Buddhism
Some Buddhist terms and concepts lack direct translations into English that cover the breadth of the original term.
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Guanyin Gumiao Temple
Guanyin Gumiao Temple (also known as the Guangdong Guanyin Temple) is one of two major Chinese temples located within Latha Township in Yangon's Chinatown.
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History of Buddhism
The history of Buddhism spans from the 5th century BCE to the present.
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History of Myanmar Buddhist Women’s Special Marriage Law
During the British Colonial regime, the position of a non-Buddhist husband and Myanmar Buddhist wife was very unfavorable.
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Hngettwin Nikaya
Hngettwin Nikaya (ငှက်တွင်နိကာယ,; officially Catubhummika Mahasatipatthana Hngettwin) is the name of a monastic order of monks in Burma, numbering approximately 1,000 monks, primarily in Mandalay.
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Htaw Lay
Maung Htaw Lay (မောင်ထော်လေး,; also spelled Maung Taulay; 1776–1869 or 1871) was Magistrate of Moulmein (Mawlamyine) from 1838 to 1853 during the early British colonial period of Myanmar (Burma), and governor of Dala from 1805 to 1827 during the Konbaung period.
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Index of Buddhism-related articles
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Index of Myanmar-related articles
Articles (arranged alphabetically) related to Myanmar (also known as Burma) include.
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India–Myanmar relations
Bilateral relations between Burma (officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar or the Union of Burma) and the Republic of India have improved considerably since 1993, overcoming tensions related to drug trafficking, the suppression of democracy and the rule of the military junta in Burma.
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Intha people
The Intha (lit. "sons of the lake") are members of a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group living around Inle Lake.
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Kaba Aye Pagoda
Kaba Aye Pagoda (ကမ္ဘာအေးစေတီ;; also spelt Gaba Aye Pagoda; lit. World Peace Pagoda), formally Thiri Mingala Gaba Aye Zedidaw), is a pagoda located on Kaba Aye Road, Mayangon Township, Yangon, Myanmar. The pagoda was built in 1952 by U Nu in preparation for the Sixth Buddhist Council that he held from 1954-1956. The pagoda measures high and is also around the base. The pagoda is located approximately 11 km north of Yangon, a little past the Inya Lake Hotel. The Maha Pasana Guha (great cave) was built simultaneously with the Kaba Aye Pagoda and is located in the same complex. The cave is a replica of the Satta Panni cave, located in India, where the first Buddhist Synod was convened. The six entrances of The Maha Pasana Cave symbolize the Sixth Great Synod. The cave is long and wide. Inside, the assembly hall is long and wide.
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Kalyani Inscriptions
The Kalyani Inscriptions (ကလျာဏီကျောက်စာ), located in Bago, Burma (Myanmar), are the stone inscriptions erected by King Dhammazedi of Hanthawaddy Pegu between 1476 and 1479.
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Khin Kyi
Maha Thiri Thudhamma Khin Kyi (1912-1988) (ခင်ကြည်) was a Burmese politician and diplomat, best known for her marriage to the country's leader, Aung San, with whom she had four children, including Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Khin Nyo
Nga Khin Nyo (ငခင်ညို) was a Royal Pinya Army commander.
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Kinnara
In Hindu mythology, a kinnara is a paradigmatic lover, a celestial musician, half-human and half-horse (India).
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Kuopio
Kuopio is a city and municipality located in Northern Savonia, Finland.
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Kyaung
A kyaung (ဘုန်းကြီးကျောင်း, often shortened to) is a Burmese Buddhist monastery (vihara), comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of Buddhist monks.
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Libation
A libation is a ritual pouring of a liquid (ex: milk or other fluids such as corn flour mixed with water), or grains such as rice, as an offering to a god or spirit, or in memory of those who have "passed on".
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List of ethnic cleansing campaigns
This article lists incidents that have been termed ethnic cleansing by some academic or legal experts.
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List of the named Buddhas
In countries where Theravāda Buddhism is practiced by the majority of people, such as Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand, it is customary for Buddhists to hold elaborate festivals, especially during the fair weather season, paying homage to the 28 Buddhas described in the Buddhavamsa.
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Mahagandhayon Monastery
Mahāgandhāyon Monastery (မဟာဂန္ဓရုံကျောင်းတိုက်), located in Amarapura, Myanmar, is the country's most prominent monastic college.
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Milinda Panha
The Milinda Pañha ("Questions of Milinda") is a Buddhist text which dates from sometime between 100 BCE and 200 CE.
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Min Bin
Min Bin (မင်းပင်,, Arakanese pronunciation:; also known as Min Pa-Gyi (မင်းပါကြီး,, Arakanese pronunciation); 1493–1554) was king of Arakan from 1531 to 1554, "whose reign witnessed the country's emergence as a major power".
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.
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Mysticism
Mysticism is the practice of religious ecstasies (religious experiences during alternate states of consciousness), together with whatever ideologies, ethics, rites, myths, legends, and magic may be related to them.
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Mythical creatures in Burmese folklore
A wide variety of mythical creatures are found in Burmese folklore and in mythology.
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Narapatisithu
Narapati Sithu (နရပတိ စည်သူ,; also Narapatisithu, Sithu II or Cansu II; 1138–1211) was king of Pagan dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1174 to 1211.
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Northern Rakhine State clashes
A series of violent clashes have been ongoing in the northern part of Myanmar's Rakhine State since October 2016.
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Okāsa
Okāsa (ဩကာသ, also awgatha and common Buddhist prayer) is a formulaic Burmese Buddhist prayer that is recited to initiate acts of Buddhist devotion, including obeisance to the Buddha and Buddhist monks.
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Outline of Buddhism
Buddhism (Pali/बौद्ध धर्म Buddha Dharma) is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha, "the awakened one".
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Outline of Myanmar
The location of Myanmar. An enlargeable map of Myanmar. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Myanmar: Myanmar, also known as Burma, is the most extensive country in mainland Southeast Asia.
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Pagoda festival
Pagoda festivals (ဘုရားပွဲ; paya pwe) are regular festivals found throughout Burma (Myanmar) that commemorate major events in pagoda's history, including the founding of a pagoda and the crowning of the pagoda's hti (umbrella).
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Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar
There is a history of persecution of Muslims in Myanmar that continues to the present day.
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Phongyibyan
Phongyibyan (ဘုန်းကြီးပျံ; also spelt pongyibyan or phongyibyan pwe) is a Burmese language term that refers to the ceremonial cremation of high-ranking Buddhist monks, in particular monks from Myanmar's largest Buddhist order, the Thudhamma Nikaya.
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Phra Mae Thorani
Phra Mae Thorani (พระแม่ธรณี) is an chthonic goddess from Buddhist mythology in Southeast Asia.
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Popular belief
Popular beliefs are studied as a sub-field of social sciences, like history and anthropology, which examines spiritual beliefs that develop not independently from religion, but still outside of established religious institutions.
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Religion in Asia
Asia is the largest and most populous continent, with a wide variety of religions, and was the birthplace of many religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Islam, Jainism, Christianity, Judaism, Shintoism, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism.
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Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh refer to the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in Bangladesh.
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Saffron Revolution
Saffron Revolution is a term used to describe a series of economic and political protests and demonstrations that took place during August, September and October 2007 in Myanmar.
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Sasana Vamsa
The Sāsana Vaṃsa or Thathanawin (သာသနာဝင်) is a history of the Buddhist order in Burma, composed by the Burmese monk Paññāsāmi in 1861.
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Sayadaw
A sayadaw (ဆရာတော်,; lit. royal teacher and alternatively spelt hsayadaw, sayado, sayāḍo or sayāḍaw) is a Burmese Buddhist title used to reference the senior monk or abbot of a monastery.
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Shin Sandalinka
Shin Sandalinka ((ရှင်စန္ဒလင်္ကာ) was an 18th century Burmese Buddhist monk, who wrote the influential court treatise Mani Yadanabon in 1781. He held a high religious title, Zinalinkara Maha Dhammayazaguru (ဇိနလင်္ကာရ မဟာ ဓမ္မရာဇဂုရု, Pali: Jinalankāra Mahā Dhammarājaguru), bestowed by King Singu.Aung-Thwin 2005: 141–142Sandalinka 2009: book cover He compiled the Mani Yadanabon from various sources, chiefly the late 14th to 15th century Zabu Kun-Cha treatise.Lieberman 1983: 137 His treatise was one of the four books to be machine-published by the Konbaung government in 1871.
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Shin Upagutta
Shin Upagutta (ရှင်ဥပဂုတ္တ or ရှင်ဥပဂုတ်; also spelt Shin Upagot, Shin Upagote or Shin U Pagoke) is a Buddhist arahant commonly venerated by Buddhists in Burma, as he is believed to protect worshipers from danger, including floods and storms.
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Shin Uttarajiva
The Venerable Shin Uttarajiva (ရှင်ဥတ္တရဇီဝ; died c. 5 October 1191) was primate of Pagan Kingdom during the reigns of three kings Narathu, Naratheinkha and Narapatisithu from 1167 to 1191.
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Shwedagon Pagoda
The Shwedagon Pagoda (MLCTS), officially named Shwedagon Zedi Daw (ရွှေတိဂုံစေတီတော်) and also known as the Great Dagon Pagoda and the Golden Pagoda, is a gilded stupa located in Yangon, Myanmar.
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Shwegyin Nikaya
Shwegyin Nikaya (ရွှေကျင်နိကာယ,, also spelt Shwekyin Nikaya) is the name of the second largest monastic order of monks in Burma.
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Silananda
U Sīlānanda (သီလာနန္ဒ) was a Burmese Buddhist monk and scholar of vipassana meditation.
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Subcommentaries, Theravada
The subcommentaries (Pali: tika, ṭīkā) are primarily commentaries on the commentaries (Pali: atthakatha) on the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism, written in Sri Lanka.
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Sule Pagoda
The Sule Pagoda (ဆူးလေဘုရား) is a Burmese stupa located in the heart of downtown Yangon, occupying the centre of the city and an important space in contemporary Burmese politics, ideology and geography.
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Tagundaing
Tagundaing (တံခွန်တိုင်) refers to an ornamented monumental column or flagstaff, typically, found within the grounds of Burmese Buddhist pagodas and monasteries.
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Thathanabaing of Burma
The Thathanabaing of Burma (သာသနာပိုင်, also spelt Thathanapaing) served as the head of the Buddhist Sangha (order of monks) in pre-colonial Burma, until its abolishment in 1938 by the British authorities in colonial Burma.
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Theravada
Theravāda (Pali, literally "school of the elder monks") is a branch of Buddhism that uses the Buddha's teaching preserved in the Pāli Canon as its doctrinal core.
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Thilashin
A Thilashin (သီလရှင်,, "possessor of morality", from Pali sīla) is a female lay renunciant in Buddhism in Myanmar.
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Thudhamma Nikaya
Thudhamma Nikaya (သုဓမ္မာနိကာယ,; also spelt Sudhamma Nikaya) is the largest monastic order of monks in Burma, with 85-90% of Burmese monks (250,000) belonging to this order.
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U Vimala
U Vimala (မိုးကုတ်ဆရာတော် ဦးဝိမလ, commonly known as the Mogok Sayadaw; 27 December 1899 - 17 October 1962) was a renowned bhikkhu and vipassanā meditation master of Theravada Buddhism.
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U Wisara
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Vasudhara
Vasudhārā, whose name means "stream of gems" in Sanskrit, is the Buddhist bodhisattva of wealth, prosperity, and abundance.
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Vipassana movement
The Vipassanā movement, also called the Insight Meditation Movement, refers to a number of branches of modern Theravāda Buddhism which stress insight into the three marks of existence as the main means to attain awakening and become a stream-enterer.
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Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen
Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen (วัดปากน้ำภาษีเจริญ) is a royal wat ('temple') located in Phasi Charoen district, Bangkok, at the Chao Phraya River.
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Weizza
A weizza or weikza (ဝိဇ္ဇာ, vijjādhara.) is a semi-immortal supernatural figure in Buddhism in Burma associated with esoteric and occult practices such as recitation of spells, samatha and alchemy.
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Yadaya
Yadaya (ယတြာ,; from Sanskrit; variously spelt yadayar and yedaya) refers to magical rituals done to delay, neutralize or prevent misfortune, widely practiced in Burma (Myanmar).
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Yama
Yama or Yamarāja is a god of death, the south direction, and the underworld, belonging to an early stratum of Rigvedic Hindu deities.
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Yama (Buddhism)
In East Asian and Buddhist mythology, Yama (sometimes known as the King of Hell, King Yan or Yanluo) is a dharmapala (wrathful god) said to judge the dead and preside over the Narakas ("Hells" or "Purgatories") and the cycle of afterlife saṃsāra.
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1962 Rangoon University protests
The 1962 Rangoon University protests were a series of marches, demonstrations, and protests against stricter campus regulations, the end of the system of university self-administration, and the policy of the new military regime of General Ne Win.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Myanmar
