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Buddhistdoor View: From Scandal to Reform, When Buddhism Reaches a Turning Point
19 Jul 2025 04:27 GMT
… moral but institutional. Buddhist schools proliferated. Monastic … institutions in exile, from Myanmar to Mongolia, sanghas … only for monks and nuns, but for all … Dhammananda Bhikkhuni
Anagarika Dharmapala: Buddhist Revivalist, Global Missionary, Sinhalese …
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Nuns in Myanmar struggle to aid countless devastated by earthquakes and civil unrest
11 Jul 2025 08:12 GMT
Catholic nuns engaged in rehabilitation efforts say Myanmar continues to struggle without … magnitude earthquake hit the central Myanmar region, especially Mandalay, and … her nuns have also collaborated with Buddhist monks. "Usually, a Buddhist monk …
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Monastic schools in Myanmar serve 338,713 students in 2025
29 Jun 2025 05:12 GMT
… monastic education schools in Myanmar provided free education to … free education for monks, nuns, orphans, children from low … promoting Myanmar cultural values, and guiding students in Buddhist teachings … them live by core Buddhist principles and to preserve …
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Militant Monks Fuel Government Terror in Myanmar
25 Jun 2025 11:53 GMT
… military junta and ultranationalist Buddhist monks. Myanmar’s current military … 575,000 monks and nuns, the members of the … to take over Burmese society (Democratic Voice of Burma, May 10 … Maha Nayaka Committee, Myanmar’s highest Buddhist authority, banned the …
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For the love of peace for all across South-East Asia as Buddhists in Malaysia celebrate the Wesak festivities in prayers and also style
31 May 2025 14:41 GMT
… devastating natural disasters, Malaysian Buddhists celebrated the continuing Wesak … of Malaysia’s rich Buddhist heritage. The Dana ceremony … for the monks and nuns who preserve and share … in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia
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Lotus in the Desert: The Untold Story of Buddhist Nuns
07 Mar 2025 21:27 GMT
… challenges and resilience of Theravada Buddhist nuns, particularly those at the Mahapajapati … , Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Thailand are largely Theravada Buddhist countries, so majority … ’t know the history of Myanmar or Burma, look into it. It …
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4 Buddhists Share What Vesak Means to Them
12 May 2025 20:44 GMT
… thousands of advanced monks and nuns, top bodhisattvas like Manjushri, gods … a new generation of Buddhists
Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara Sunday school students … , Burmese, Indians, Koreans, Laotians, Sri Lankans, Thai, Tibetans, and more Asian Buddhists …
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A New Buddhist Canon
10 May 2025 05:19 GMT
… so that monks and nuns from different parts of India … approach two centuries of translating Buddhist texts into European languages, … , held in Yangon in Burma in 1956, a monk … translating the ancient corpus of Buddhist sutras by artificial intelligence, …
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‘Don’t leave me behind’: The earthquake that shattered a Buddhist sanctuary
02 May 2025 21:08 GMT
… Town, once home to 56 Buddhist nuns, now lies in ruins, abandoned … former capital of the last Burmese royal dynasty. The two hills … published, it sparked backlash within Myanmar’s monastic community. Venerable Ardessa …
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Bo: the face of 'synodality and mercy' in a Myanmar wounded by war
02 May 2025 10:26 GMT
… powder keg between the Buddhist majority and minorities, particularly … he became the first Burmese bishop to take up the … the same year that Myanmar, formerly Burma, became an independent state … 000 monks and 70,000 Buddhist nuns in the country.
They …