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received the name of "Sixth
Buddhist council", this involved implicitly recognizing the fifth, even though most other nations were not involved in the fifth council, and the results of the fifth council were limited to the Burmese edition of the Pali Canon only. However, there were a number of other
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On the 7th year (6th) month (14th day) of Kyauk
Chettin - 2415 years of the religious year, the 3 pictures of the Pita card placed on the pe leaves were damaged due to the weather and the danger of insects and some variations occurred. (3) Together, they held a synod at the Yadana Pinayi Temple in
845:- After the oral recitation lasted for (5) months and (3) days, the scriptures were engraved on the marble slabs so that they would not be destroyed for as long as the world existed, and a total of (729) white marble slabs were obtained . It was very prominent as a proud landmark of Myanmar.
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The Fifth
Buddhist council was a Burmese affair, and most other Buddhist countries were not involved in it. It is not generally recognized outside Burma. It has been argued that, since the
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Mandalay of the world's largest book, consisting of 729 large marble tablets with the
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as part of his transformation of
Mandalay into a royal capital. It was completed in 1878. The text contains the Buddhist canon in the
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and examine them in minute detail to see if any of them had been altered, distorted or dropped. It was presided over by three elder
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inscribed on them in gold. One more was added to record how it all came about, making it 730 stone inscriptions in total.
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994:Tripiṭaka tablets at Kuthodaw Pagoda
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950:Second Buddhist council
649:Varanggana Vanavichayen
386:Seven Aids to Awakening
965:Sixth Buddhist council
955:Third Buddhist council
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716:Fifth Buddhist Council
232:Pre-sectarian Buddhism
207:Abhidhammattha-sangaha
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300:Thai Forest Tradition
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411:Enlightenment Stages
396:Noble Eightfold Path
212:Yogāvacara's manual
177:Paracanonical texts
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444:Moggaliputta-Tissa
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639:Ajahn Brahm
624:Nyanaponika
614:Nyanatiloka
599:Jayatilleke
574:Pragyananda
469:Buddhadatta
464:Buddhaghoṣa
454:Sanghamitta
438:Key figures
391:Mindfulness
353:Kammaṭṭhāna
1116:Categories
1000:References
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928:kyauksa gu
861:Pali canon
842:Mandalay.
771:Theravadin
756:Pāli Canon
664:Ayya Khema
604:Kalupahana
569:Mahapragya
564:Kripasaran
554:Ajahn Chah
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376:Meditation
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257:Mahāvihāra
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865:Theravada
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262:Dipavamsa
242:Sthaviras
137:Sri Lanka
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934:See also
897:Mandalay
889:kuthodaw
868:Buddhism
858:Tipitaka
836:duration
801:Location
764:bhikkhus
736:Mandalay
619:Nanamoli
529:U Nārada
416:Precepts
322:Doctrine
142:Thailand
107:Cambodia
69:a series
67:Part of
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740:Myanmar
720:Burmese
674:Dipa Ma
644:Analayo
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449:Mahinda
369:Nibbāna
360:Saṃsāra
284:Schools
225:History
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127:Myanmar
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830:Mindon
812:Leader
780:Ceylon
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426:Vinaya
333:Anattā
58:stupas
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1096:Fifth
1086:Third
1076:First
748:Burma
459:Tissa
348:Jhana
338:Arhat
165:Texts
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117:India
112:China
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