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Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is one of the most popular fo
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Modern Buddhist Conjunctures in Myanmar
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Modern Buddhist Conjunctures in Myanmar

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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-30 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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For centuries, Burmese have looked to the authority of their religious tradition, Theravada Buddhism, to negotiate social and political hierarchies. Modern Budd
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Burma’s Mass Lay Meditation Movement

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