Creating Demand and Creating Knowledge Communities: Burmese Buddhist Women, Monk Teachers, and the Shaping of Transnational Teachings > The importance of Abhidhamma (higher doctrine) in Myanmar Buddhist society is well known. > However, it is only within the last century that this doctrine has become more accessible to the laity, and specifically to women devotees.

📰 Burmese Buddhist Women, Monk Teachers, and the Shaping of Transnational Teachings (A free, 15-page article from 2022)

Tags: #BurmeseBuddhism #Modern

Buddhism under a Military Regime: The Iron Heel in Burma > Buddhism in Burma is involved in a continuing and intense struggle against a repressive military regime.

📰 The Iron Heel in Burma (A free, 16-page article from 1993)

Tags: #BurmeseBuddhism #Asia #News #TBT

What Buddhism Is > Purity of mind is the greatest common denomiator of all religions. Love, which alone is the means for the unity of mankind, must be supreme, and it cannot be so unless the mind is transcendentally pure.

📕 What Buddhism Is (A free, 36-page book from 1977)

Tags: #BurmeseBuddhism #Buddhism

Buddhism in Myanmar: A Short History This booklet provides a brief history of Buddhism in Myanmar, tracing its development from its origins to the country's loss of independence to Great Britain in the late nineteenth century.

📖 A Short History (A free, 49-page book from 1995)

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The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma > promising him special access to a better future life and even nibbāna, that possesses great appeal to him. [...] > When people engage in religious behavior, they are trying to see where there is a concentration of power to which they can connect themselves. So, the question is, where do you think such concentrations of power lie?

🗣️ Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma (A free, 42-minute podcast from 2018)

Tags: #ChineseReligion #Buddhism #Thirdeye #SeaMahayana #Pureland #Religion #BurmeseBuddhism

Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw The life of Ledi Sayadaw and why Vipassanā meditation went mainstream in colonial Burma.

🗣️ Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw (A free, 68-minute podcast from 2015)

Tags: #BurmeseBuddhism #Modern #Vipassana

Talks Delivered on the World Buddhist Missionary Tour > I urge you to meditate beforehand, i.e., before you come across old age, sickness and death

🗒️ Talks Delivered on the World Buddhist Missionary Tour (A free, 12-page essay from 1995)

Tags: #Buddhism #BurmeseBuddhism #Enlightenment

Memorable Dhammas How to live harmoniously within a community, focusing on the six conditions outlined in the [Sārāṇīya Sutta](/content/canon/an6.12).

🗣️ Memorable Dhammas (A free, 42-minute talk from 2013)

Tags: #Buddhism #BurmeseBuddhism #Sangha #Ethics

Vipassanā Dīpanī: Manual of Insight > The insight exercises can be practised not only in solitude, as is necessary in the case of the exercise of calm or samatha, but they can be practised everywhere. Maturity of knowledge is the main thing required. For if knowledge is ripe, the insight of impermanence may easily be accomplished while listening to a discourse or while living a householder’s ordinary life.

📖 Manual of Insight (A free, 49-page book translation from 1961)

Tags: #BurmeseBuddhism #Vipassana

Tigumbacetiyathomanā: Praise of the Tigumba Shrine A line-by-line Pāli and English version of a chanting text from Myanmar praises the Shwedagon Pagoda, showcasing the variations in the Siloka metre.

📖 Praise of the Tigumba Shrine (A free, 5-page book from 2013)

Tags: #BurmeseBuddhism #TheravadaChanting #PaliMetre

A Tigress on the Shwedagon: A Research Note A short article on a glasswork depiction of an incident in 1903 in which a tigress sought refuge on the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon.

📰 A Research Note (A free, 1-page article from 2008)

Tags: #Animals #Buddhastatue #BurmeseBuddhism

Shaping of the Yunnan-Burma Frontier by Secret Societies since the End of the 17th Century The article discusses the development of Buddhistic cults and secret societies on the Yunnan-Burma border, focusing on how these societies shaped the region’s political and social dynamics from the late 17th century.

📰 Shaping of the Yunnan-Burma Frontier by Secret Societies since the End of the 17th Century (A free, 20-page article from 2011)

Tags: #Qing #Medieval #BurmeseBuddhism #News #ASEAN #SouthernChina

Namakkārapāḷi saha Saṅkhepayojanā: The Reverence Text with the Short Word-Commentary This is a translation by Bhikkhu Anandajoti of The Namakkārapāli, a revered Buddhist text from Myanmar that consists of 28 verses, each written in different meters, praising the Buddha.

📖 The Reverence Text with the Short Word-Commentary (A free, 29-page book of #poetry from 2013)

Tags: #Buddha #TheravadaChanting #PaliReaders #BurmeseBuddhism

Buddhist Nuns in Burma > The present nuns in Burma had a great period of revival and prosperity during the sasana reforms sponsored by King Mindon, who built the royal city of Mandalay and held the Fifth Buddhist Council...

🗒️ Buddhist Nuns in Burma (A free, 8-page essay from 2010)

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Buddhist Discrimination Against Women in Modern Burma > Neither Buddhism, a practice of transforming oneself with love, compassion, and wisdom, nor the Buddha, an ideal description of man enjoying life without harming oneself or others, helped me appeal to those monks who had the author- ity to imprison me. I came to know deeply that these monks did not truly understand that Buddhism is about the practice of love, compassion, and wisdom, even though they all said that they understood.

📰 Buddhist Discrimination Against Women in Modern Burma (A free, 7-page article from 2010)

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Bodipakkhiya-dipani: The Manual of the Factors Leading to Enlightenment A detailed, Abhidhamma/Pāli-inflected map of the Buddhist path in a style that became surprisingly popular in modern Burma.

📕 The Manual of the Factors Leading to Enlightenment (A free, 53-page book translation from 1960)

Tags: #Abhidhamma #BurmeseBuddhism #Meditation

A Wonderland of Pagoda Legends > It is the human need to express devotion to and adoration of the Buddha and his teaching that manifests itself in the act of building pagodas and in making ceremonial offerings before shrines.

📕 A Wonderland of Pagoda Legends (A free, 205-page book from 1996)

Tags: #BurmeseBuddhism #Buddhastatue #Travel

A Short Biography of the Venerable Ledi Sayadaw > Ledi Sayadaw was simultaneously a great teacher to his monks and lay disciples, a great Dhamma preacher to large segments of the Burmese population, a founder and organizer of many Buddhist lay organizations, a famous teacher and popularizer of meditation practice, especially Ānāpāna and Vipassanā, and a classical scholar-monk and author of classical work.

📕 A Short Biography of the Venerable Ledi Sayadaw (A free, 12-page book from 2022)

Tags: #BurmeseBuddhism #Theravada

The Religious Standing of Burmese Buddhist Nuns (thilá-shin): The Ten Precepts and Religious Respect Words > There is a contradiction between the spiritual worthiness felt by thilá-shin themselves and the mundane degradation to which they are subject.

📰 The Ten Precepts and Religious Respect Words (A free, 23-page article from 1990)

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The Nikāyas of the Burmese Sangha in the Context of Contemporary Burmese Buddhism A straightforward list of the nine official Nikāyas in Burma along with a word on their history.

📰 The Nikāyas of the Burmese Sangha in the Context of Contemporary Burmese Buddhism (A free, 13-page article from 1990)

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The Changing Social and Religious Role of Buddhist Nuns in Myanmar: A case study of two nunneries (1948-2010) > social welfare activities conducted by nuns in Myanmar enhance their social and religious capital

📑 A case study of two nunneries (1948-2010) (A free, 14-page paper from 2020)

Tags: #Nuns #Modern #BurmeseBuddhism

Pagodas and Prophets: Contesting Sacred Space and Power among Buddhist Karen in Karen State > Field-based observations on the young charismatic Phu Taki and his community, as well as on the practice of pagoda worship called Duwae

📰 Contesting Sacred Space and Power among Buddhist Karen in Karen State (A free, 23-page article from 2011)

Tags: #BurmeseBuddhism #HillTribe #Buddhism

On Saints and Wizards: Ideals of Human Perfection and Power in Contemporary Burmese Buddhism > Known in Burmese as the *weikza-lam* or ‘Path of Esoteric Knowledge,’ this tradition has as its goal not the termination of saṃsāric life as an arahant, but rather its indefi nite prolongation through the attainment of virtual immortality

📰 Ideals of Human Perfection and Power in Contemporary Burmese Buddhism (A free, 36-page article from 2010)

Tags: #ChineseReligion #BurmeseBuddhism #Buddhism

Heresy and Monastic Malpractice in the Buddhist Court Cases (Vinicchaya) of Modern Burma (Myanmar) > The religious courts that try these cases have the backing of state law enforcement agencies: failure to comply with their judgements is punishable by imprisonment. > A guilty verdict has been passed in all seventeen cases to date. > There is no opportunity of appeal.

📰 Heresy and Monastic Malpractice in the Buddhist Court Cases (Vinicchaya) of Modern Burma (Myanmar) (A free, 63-page article from 2017)

Tags: #Buddhism #BurmeseBuddhism