Burmese Buddhism
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Buddhism in Myanmar historically and today.
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Anthropologists and religious scholars have long debated the relationship between doctrinal Theravada Buddhism, so-called ‘animism’, and other folk practices in southeast Asian societies. A variety of models of this relationship have been proposed on the basis of ethnographic evidence. We provide the first psychometric and quantitative evaluation of these competing models, using a new scale developed for this purpose, the Burmese Buddhist Religiosity Scale.
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A description of some Pāli texts found inscribed on gold in an old Burmese stupa which demonstrate the care with which the Pāli tradition has been preserved even during the early medieval period.
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A short video on the girls who shave their heads to escape war.
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