Buddhist Method for Monastic Educational Preservation and Inheritance of Rāmañña Nikāya in Myanmar
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The article is to explore the Rāmañña Nikāya, the Mon sangha in Myanmar through preservation and inheritance the Mon monastic education. The study shows that the Rāmañña Nikāya preserve and inherit the origin and development of the monastic education through learning and teaching with the oral and palm-leaf tradition, and the roles of the Rāmañña Nikāya in preserving and inheriting the monastic education through learning and teaching, publishing and translation and examinations in Mon language have been discovered. Learning and teaching process in Mon language and studying through bi-languages in Mon and Myanmar have been suggested. Then, the methods of preserving and inheriting the monastic education through learning to practice in accordance with the Vinaya and the Dhamma for Saṅgha have been presented.
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