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ဘုရား႟ႀင္တို့၏ဳသဝၝဒ

မေကာင္းမႁမႀန္သမ႖ မဴပႂလုပ္ဴခင္း
ေကာင္းမႁမႀန္သမ႖ ဴပည့္စံုေစဴခင္း
မိမိစိတ္ကို ဴဖႃစင္ေစဴခင္း

ဤတရားသံုးပၝးသည္ ခပ္သိမ္းေသာ ဘုရား႟ႀင္တို့၏ အဆံုးအမ ဳသဝၝဒေပတည္း။

 
Activities
After emergence of the Ministry of Religious Affairs , it has been carrying out the following tasks:

(a) Activities of Internal Missions
Member Sayadaws of the State Samgha Maha Nayaka Committee and Theravada Buddhist Missionary Ovadacariya Saya-daws often visit States and Divisions and discussions are made with member saya-daws of State/ Division Samgha Nayaka Comittees about the Samgha affairs, missionary work in hilly regions and border areas, opening of missionary training courses of the Sasana. These courses of the Teaching are opened also/


(b) Activities of External Missions
Endeavours are being made by Sayadaws headed by member Sayadaws of the State Samgha Maha Nayaka Comittee by discussing and coordinating with foreign countries to flourish Buddhist Sasana there; attending religious and Sasana occasions abroad, and ordaining lay persons from abroad and bhikkhus.


(c) Activities of Monastic Education Schools
According to the decision of the State Samgha Maha Nayaka Committee, 970 monastic education schools have been opened in 216 townships of States and Divisions with the attendance of 95710 school children. Arrangements are being made for extension of Monastic Education Schools in States the Divisions.


(d) Activities for different faiths
Different followers of faiths in the Union of Myanmar are: Buddhists (89.20)per cent, Christians (5.06) per cent, Hindus (0.51) per cent, Islamists (3.78) per cent, animists (1.21) per cent and other faiths such as Bahai Sikhs, Lipian fujianhal, Chinese, etc. (0.61) per cent. Encouragement and assistance are being given on Holy days of different faiths. Native Islamists are sent to Mecca for the Haj. Representatives are also sent to attend religious assemblies at home and abroad.


(e) Tasks carried out with the help of Advisers Committee
Basic Primary level curriculum, basic secondary level curriculum and higher level curriculum were drawn up in Myanmar language without any Pali words so the Buddha's teaching could be comprehended by children and adults easily. Efforts are being made also for spreading Buddhist literatue among the people by the Advisers Comittee comprising six scholars who are skilful in Buddhist literature.


Comferring Religious Titles
Comferring Religious Titles
After Independence of the Union of Myanmar, the religious titles of AggaMaha Pandita, Ahhidhaja Maha Rattha Guru and Tipitakadhara only were conferred on the eminent Sayadaws.

The State Peace and Development Council Government issued its Notification No. (42/91) dated 24-10-91 so newly created religious titles emerged, and thus the following religious titles are being conferred on the recipients.

(a) Titles conferred since long, long ago:
  1. Abhidhaja Maha Rattha Guru
  2. Agga Maha Pandita
  3. Tipitakadhara

(b) Newly created religious titles:
  1. Tipitakadhara Dhammabhandagarika
  2. Agga Maha Ganthavacaka Pandita Sayadaw Agga Maha Ganthavacaka Pandita Nun
  3. Maha Ganthavacaka Pandita Sayadaw Maha Ganthavacaka Nun
  4. Cula Ganthavacakavacaka Pandita Saya-daw Cula Ganthavacaka Pandita Nun
  5. Maha Dahamma Kathika Bahujana-hitadhara Sayadaw
  6. Dhamma Kathika Bahujanahitadhara Sayadaw
  7. Agga Maha Kammathanacariya Saya-daw
  8. Maha Kammathanacariya Sayadaw
  9. Cula Kammathanacariya Sayadaw
  10. Abhidhaja Agga Maha Saddhammajotika Sayadaw
  11. Agga Maha Saddammajotika Sayadaw
  12. Maha Saddhammajotika Sayadaw Maha Saddhammajotika Nun Maha Saddhammajotika Lay person
  13. Saddhammajotikadhaja Sayadaw Saddhammajotikadhaja Nun Saddhammajotikadhaja Lay person
  14. Agga Maha Siri Sudhamma Manijota-dhara
  15. Siri Sudhamma Manijotadhara
  16. Siha Sudhamma Manijotadhara
  17. Sudhamma Manijotadhara
  18. Agga Maha Siri Sudhamma Singi
  19. Siha Sudhamma Singi
  20. Siha Sudhamma Singi
  21. Sudhamma Singi

 

The Ministry Of Religious Affairs,  Yangon,  Myanmar

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