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Putting pressure on the Burmese Government
British Journal of Nursing, 2008As a result of the Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that approximately 250 000 people died and many more thousands were made homeless (WHO, 2008). Due to an unprecedented emergency response by the governments and citizens of the international community, millions of pounds were raised and food, aid and ...
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2016
Contemporary Buddhism in Burma/Myanmar is diverse and manifold, and the variety of “modern” forms of Buddhism have evolved since the colonial period in dynamic interplay with modernization, colonization, nation-building, and shifting socioeconomic circumstances.
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Contemporary Buddhism in Burma/Myanmar is diverse and manifold, and the variety of “modern” forms of Buddhism have evolved since the colonial period in dynamic interplay with modernization, colonization, nation-building, and shifting socioeconomic circumstances.
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Reinterpreting Burmese History
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1987Problems of periodization have received but limited attention in Burmese historiography. Precolonial, that is to say, pre-nineteenth-century history, is said to be of a piece, without significant institutional or social transformations. Dynasties and rulers changed, of course, sometimes with stunning rapidity; but it is always assumed that these ...
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2015
Abstract This article looks thematically at several important aspects of Buddhist politics in Myanmar, from the precolonial period to the present. It considers a number of arguments regarding the use of Buddhism in both supporting and opposing political authority, especially as they are rooted in a dualistic conception of human nature ...
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Abstract This article looks thematically at several important aspects of Buddhist politics in Myanmar, from the precolonial period to the present. It considers a number of arguments regarding the use of Buddhism in both supporting and opposing political authority, especially as they are rooted in a dualistic conception of human nature ...
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Spatial ecology of invasive Burmese pythons in southwestern Florida
Ecosphere, 2021Robert N Reed +2 more
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<p><strong>Supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography, 2020</strong></p>
Palaeoentomology, 2021Andrew J Ross
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1963
This present, Badda world began, in Burmese myth and legend, after previous worlds had been destroyed seven times by fire and once by water. This earth emerged as the water fell away, and a lotus flower blossomed to announce that on this earth a Buddha would appear.
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This present, Badda world began, in Burmese myth and legend, after previous worlds had been destroyed seven times by fire and once by water. This earth emerged as the water fell away, and a lotus flower blossomed to announce that on this earth a Buddha would appear.
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A remarkable assemblage of ticks from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber
Parasitology, 2022Lidia Chitimia-dobler +2 more
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