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Buddhism (Burmese: ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာ), specifically Theravāda Buddhism (Burmese: ထေရဝါဒဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာ), is the official and state religion of Myanmar since 1961, [2] and practiced by nearly 90% of the population.
In Burma (aka Myanmar), the Theravāda form of Buddhism is practiced by nearly 90% of the population. Buddhism has been the official state religion of since 1961. Buddhist adherents are most likely found among the dominant Bamar people, Shan, Rakhine, Mon, Karen, and ethnic Chinese.
According to both the 2014 census of the Burmese government Buddhism is the dominant religion, of 89.8% of the population, practiced especially by the Bamar, Rakhine, Shan, Mon and Chinese ethnic groups. Bamar people also practice the Burmese folk religion under the name of Buddhism.
Buddhism had been the state religion of Burma beginning with the Kingdom of Pakan in 1044, and was briefly reinstated as the state religion under Prime Minister U Nu in 1961 until the military coup in 1962.
- The Amarapura Nikaya in Sri Lanka
- Bodawpaya's Relationship with The Sangha
- The Fate of Buddhism in Upper and Lower Myanmar
- Tharrawaddy-Min
- Pagan-Min
- The Colonial Administration and The Sangha
- King Mindon
In the later half of the eighteenth century, the upasampada ordination in Sri Lanka was barred to all except the members of the landed aristocracy. This was a result of royal decree probably issued with the support of at least a section of the Sangha. However, this was a flagrant defilement of the letter and the spirit of the Buddha's instructions....
Although King Bodawpaya would appear to have been a pious and devout king, his relationship with the Sangha was somewhat problematic. He supported it at times and even used it to extend his own glory, but at times he seemed almost jealous of the respect the bhikkhus received from the people. He realised that the bhikkhus were not respected out of f...
Bodawpaya's successor, Bagyidaw (1819-1837), was the first of the Myanmar kings to lose territory to the white invaders coming from the West. The Myanmar court was so out of touch with the modern world that it still believed Myanmar to be the center of the world and her army virtually invincible. Hence the king was not unduly disturbed when the Bri...
King Bagyidaw never overcame his shock over the loss of part of his realm. He was declared insane and was removed from the throne by Tharawaddy-Min (1837-1846), King Mindon's father. In the reign of Tharrawaddy-Min, another mission from Sri Lanka visited Myanmar and was received by the Sangharaja Neyyadhammabhivamsa. Neyyadhamma instructed the two ...
Tharrawaddy-Min was himself deposed because of insanity by his son Pagan-Min (1846-52), the brother of Mindon-Min. Pagan-Min appointed Pannajotabhidhaja as his Sangharaja. In his tenure, scholarship received encouragement as the Sangharaja himself wrote a commentary and its sub-commentary in Myanmar on the Anguttara Nikaya. Other works of the time,...
The occupation by the British forces was of utmost significance for the Sangha as the British administration did not grant the traditional protection afforded it by a Buddhist ruler. In accordance with the colonial policy established in India, that the colonial government should be strictly secular, the new lords refused to take on the role of a Bu...
Even today King Mindon's reign (1852-1877) is surrounded by the mystique of a golden era in the minds of the Myanmar people. No war occurred during the twenty-five years of his tenure and the king himself is said to have been of gentle disposition and adverse to violence. He even declared a dislike for capital punishment which was customarily infli...
Theravada mixed with indigenous beliefs and became dominate and known as Burmese Buddhism (similar to Theravada practiced in Sri Lanka, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand) in northern Burma. Mahayana Buddhism, the other main school of Buddhism, for the most part disappeared.
Jan 30, 2014 · Traditional Burmese sources date the arrival of Buddhism to the time of the historical Buddha, but, even limited to historical evidence, the record suggests that the dynamic and powerful role of Buddhism in the region stretches back at least to the early centuries of the Common Era.
