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The Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture (, abbreviated MORAC) administers the religious affairs, cultural affairs and historical and archaeology research efforts of
Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...
(formerly Burma). The Department of Religious Affairs purification, perpetuation, promotion and propagation of the
Theravada ''Theravāda'' () ( si, ථේරවාදය, my, ထေရဝါဒ, th, เถรวาท, km, ថេរវាទ, lo, ເຖຣະວາດ, pi, , ) is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school. The school' ...
Buddhist Sasana and promotes Myanmar traditional customs and culture.


History

The Ministry of Culture was established on 16 March 1952 as the Ministry of Union Cultures, and later renamed the Ministry of Culture on 15 March 1972. The Ministry of Religious Affairs (MORA) came into being before the Union of Burma (now known as the
Republic of the Union of Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
) regained its Independence in 1947. On 2 March 1962, the
Revolutionary Council A workers' council or labor council is a form of political and economic organization in which a workplace or municipality is governed by a council made up of workers or their elected delegates. The workers within each council decide on what thei ...
government reorganised all ministries. The Ministry of Religious Affairs became a department of the Ministry of Home and Religious Affairs. On 18 September 1988. the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) formed the Department for the Promotion and Propagation of the Sasana, also under the Ministry of Home and Religious Affairs. On 20 March 1992. the ministries of Home Affairs and Religious Affairs were separated. A cabinet meeting on 26 June 1998 confirmed that the
International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University The International Theravāda Buddhist Missionary University () is on the Dhammapãla Hill, Mayangon Township, in Yangon, Myanmar. It was inaugurated on 6th waxing moon of Nadaw, 1360 ME (9 December 1998). Inauguration The Minister for Reli ...
would be formed under MORA. MORA's motto was a
Pali Pali () is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language native to the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of the Buddhist ''Pāli Canon'' or ''Tipiṭaka'' as well as the sacred language of ''Theravāda'' Buddhism ...
phrase "''Buddha sāsanaṃ ciraṃ tiṭṭhatu''" (), which translates as "Long Live the Buddhist Sasana." On 1 April 2016, the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Ministry of Culture were combined to form the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture, as part of a government downsizing.


Departments

*Union Minister Office *Department of Religious Affairs ** To ensure that all people living in the Union of Myanmar can freely believe in any religion and freely practice that religion. ** Since the great majority of the people are Buddhist, to purify, perpetuate and propagate the three kinds of Sasana of the Buddha namely, Pariyatti, Patipatti and Pativedha. ** To preserve and promote the traditional and cultural heritage of Myanmar. *Department for Promotion and Propagation of Sasana - Responsible for supporting missionary activity within Myanmar and abroad. It also undertakes translation of Pitakas and compilation of Buddhist Treatises **
State Pariyatti Sasana University, Yangon State Pariyatti Sāsana University, Yangon ( my, နိုင်ငံတော် ပရိယတ္တိသာသနာ့ တက္ကသိုလ် (ရန်ကုန်)) is a Buddhist university located in Yangon, Myanmar, which teaches m ...
**
State Pariyatti Sasana University, Mandalay The State Pariyatti Sasana University, Mandalay ( my, နိုင်ငံတော် ပရိယတ္တိသာသနာ့ တက္ကသိုလ် (မန္တလေး)) is a Buddhist university located in Mandalay, Myanmar, which te ...
*
International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University The International Theravāda Buddhist Missionary University () is on the Dhammapãla Hill, Mayangon Township, in Yangon, Myanmar. It was inaugurated on 6th waxing moon of Nadaw, 1360 ME (9 December 1998). Inauguration The Minister for Reli ...
*Department of Archaeology and
National Museum A national museum is a museum maintained and funded by a national government. In many countries it denotes a museum run by the central government, while other museums are run by regional or local governments. In other countries a much greater numb ...
*Fine Arts Department *Department of Historical Research and National Library *
National University of Arts and Culture, Yangon The National University of Arts and Culture, Yangon ( my, အမျိုးသားယဉ်ကျေးမှုနှင့် အနုပညာတက္ကသိုလ် (ရန်ကုန်) ) is a public university, located in Yangon, M ...
*
National University of Arts and Culture, Mandalay The National University of Art and Culture, Mandalay, (, ), located in Patheingyi, Mandalay, is one of two performing and visual arts universities in Myanmar. The university offers bachelor's degree programs in traditional Burmese performing and ...


Ministers


See also

* Agga Maha Pandita *
List of Sāsana Azani recipients The Burmese government recognizes Buddhist monks who have successfully passed the Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinations as "Sāsana Azani" (သာသနာ့အာဇာနည်), from Pali (). Since the examination's initial incep ...
* State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee *
International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University The International Theravāda Buddhist Missionary University () is on the Dhammapãla Hill, Mayangon Township, in Yangon, Myanmar. It was inaugurated on 6th waxing moon of Nadaw, 1360 ME (9 December 1998). Inauguration The Minister for Reli ...
*
State Pariyatti Sasana University, Yangon State Pariyatti Sāsana University, Yangon ( my, နိုင်ငံတော် ပရိယတ္တိသာသနာ့ တက္ကသိုလ် (ရန်ကုန်)) is a Buddhist university located in Yangon, Myanmar, which teaches m ...
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State Pariyatti Sasana University, Mandalay The State Pariyatti Sasana University, Mandalay ( my, နိုင်ငံတော် ပရိယတ္တိသာသနာ့ တက္ကသိုလ် (မန္တလေး)) is a Buddhist university located in Mandalay, Myanmar, which te ...
* Culture of Burma * Cabinet of Myanmar *
National University of Arts and Culture, Mandalay The National University of Art and Culture, Mandalay, (, ), located in Patheingyi, Mandalay, is one of two performing and visual arts universities in Myanmar. The university offers bachelor's degree programs in traditional Burmese performing and ...
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National University of Arts and Culture, Yangon The National University of Arts and Culture, Yangon ( my, အမျိုးသားယဉ်ကျေးမှုနှင့် အနုပညာတက္ကသိုလ် (ရန်ကုန်) ) is a public university, located in Yangon, M ...


References


External links

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