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Burmese Buddhism
Theravāda Buddhism as it was taught and practised in Burma, in historical English editions with their translators' framing kept visible.
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Texts
The Life or Legend of Gaudama, Vol. I — Paul Ambroise BigandetVolume I of Bishop Paul Ambroise Bigandet's annotated English version of a Burmese life of the Buddha, first printed at Rangoon in 1858: the prefaces and twelve chapters running from the Buddha's former lives and birth to the downfall of his cousin Dewadat, with Bigandet's long notes on Burmese Buddhist belief and practice.The Life or Legend of Gaudama, Vol. II — Paul Ambroise BigandetVolume II of Bishop Paul Ambroise Bigandet's annotated English version of a Burmese life of the Buddha: his last year, death and funeral, the councils and the coming of Buddhism to Burma, followed by abstracts of birth-stories, notes on the Legend's places, The Seven Ways to Neibban and Bigandet's Notice on the Phongyies, or Burmese monks.