ဘုရား႟ႀင္တို့၏ဳသဝၝဒ
	မေကာင္းမႁမႀန္သမ႖ မဴပႂလုပ္ဴခင္း
	ေကာင္းမႁမႀန္သမ႖ ဴပည့္စံုေစဴခင္း
	မိမိစိတ္ကို ဴဖႃစင္ေစဴခင္း
ဤတရားသံုးပၝးသည္ ခပ္သိမ္းေသာ ဘုရား႟ႀင္တို့၏ အဆံုးအမ ဳသဝၝဒေပတည္း။
	The giving up of all evil;
	The cultivation of all good;
	The cleaning of one's mind;
This is the teaching of the Buddhas.

The Ministry of Religious Affairs was established in order to function various affairs of Sasana even during the period not before gaining the Independence of the Union of Myanmar . According to implementation of new system of administration on 15 March 1972, the Department of Religious Affairs was formed comprising the following departmentts. which were under the Ministry of Religious Affairs:-

1. Secretriat of the Ministry of Religious Affairs
2. Division of Religious Affairs Directorate
3. Division of Pali University and Dhamma-cariya
4. Division of Pali Education
5. International Institute for Advance Buddhist studies
6. Buddha Sasana Council
7. Tipitakadhara Selection Board

TThe objectives of the establishment of the Department of Religious Affairs are to effectively carry out and function the following matters:-

1. All people living in the Union of Myanmar have to take faith freely in any religion which they believe and to practise it freely.

2. As 89.280 per-cent of population of the whole country taking faith in Buddhisam, it is to purify, perpetuate and propagate the three kinds of Sasana of the Buddha namely, Pariyatti, Patipatti and Pativedha.

3. To promote and cultivate moral conduct and character of people by preserving and promoting traditional and cultural heritage of Myanmar.

The Department of Religious Affairs

The Department of Religious Affairs is consequently carrying out the above-mentioned tasks and besides is implementing to solve and settle disputes arising among other religions. In addition, the Department is also performing to promote other religions respectively. To attend their religious seminars, conferences and meetings at abroad, the Department of Religious Affairs makes necessary arrangements and requirements for them in order to go there. Members of other religions who visit Myanmar are recommended to obtain their further stay-permit. Islamic believers from Myanmar are sent to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for their Haj pilgrimage. Financial aids are yearly granted for other religions and also travelling free-pass is issued to leaders of other religions.

A Lump sum of financial aids are yearly granted to respective religous communities as follows:-

Due to supporting Buddhism and other religions throughout the country, believers in respective religions and their religious buildings are increasing in number as follows:-