The cult of the nats is Myanmar's ancient animist religion. In the 11th century, King Ana­wrahta established the Theravada school of Buddhism as Myanmar's primary religion. When his attempts to ...

4 Myanmar, formerly Burma, has been embroiled in conflicts at the nation’s center ... The discussion that unfolds in this book traces the cultural narratives of Burma’s Theravada Buddhist engagement ...

When the great King Anawrahta of Pagan united the whole of Burma into a single kingdom in the eleventh century and made Theravada Buddhism the national religion, there were already in existence a ...

Ven Ajahn Siripanyo, the only son of Malaysian billionaire Ananda Krishnan, chose to forgo an inheritance from his father’s ...