State Pariyatti Sasana University, Mandalay

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State Pariyatti Sasana University, Mandalay
နိုင်ငံတော် ပရိယတ္တိသာသနာ့ တက္ကသိုလ် (မန္တလေး)
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Other name
SPSU
Motto
သဗ္ဗဒါနံ ဓမ္မဒါနံ ဇိနာတိ
sabbadānaṃ dhammadānaṃ jināti
TypePublic
Established21 August 1986;38 years ago (21 August 1986)
Affiliation Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture (Myanmar)
Chancellor Bhaddanta Kesarājā
Students442
Address
62 Street
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22°00′04″N96°06′55″E / 22.001094°N 96.115394°E / 22.001094; 96.115394
Website www.spsumdy.org
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The State Pariyatti Sasana University, Mandalay (Burmese : နိုင်ငံတော် ပရိယတ္တိသာသနာ့ တက္ကသိုလ် (မန္တလေး)) is a Buddhist university located in Mandalay, Myanmar, which teaches members of the Buddhist sangha, specifically in the Pitaka, Pali, Burmese language and Burmese literature, and missionary work. [1] The university was opened on 21 August 1986. [1] The university offers Bachelor of Arts (Sāsanatakkasīla Dhammācariya), Master of Arts (Sāsanatakkasīla Mahādhammācariya) and Ph.D (Sāsanatakkasīla Dhammapāragū) degrees, [2] which are conferred as Burmese Buddhist titles. In 2018, 51 titles were conferred to Buddhist monks. [3]

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  1. 1 2 "Department for Promotion and Propagation of the Sanana". Ministry Of Religious Affairs. 2005. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  2. "A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF STATE PARIYATTI SÂSANA UNIVERSITY". Association of Theravāda Buddhist Universities. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  3. "Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture striving for long-lasting of the Sasana and preserving and protecting cultural heritage". Global New Light Of Myanmar. Archived from the original on October 2, 2018. Retrieved 2018-10-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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