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 ...

Burmese wash Buddha statues with fragranced water for good luck. For Southeast Asians and some South Asians, mid-April is the official start of the New Year based on early Agrarian calendars. This ...

(Editor’s Note: There is no accepted uniform system of rendering the sounds of Burmese words phonetically in English. Therefore the preferences of individual writers have been followed in this ...