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Tag: All Burma Monks’ Alliance

Saffron Revolution Monk U Pyinya Zawta in the Bay Area

Over this last weekend Clear View Project hosted senior Saffron Revolution monk U Pyinya Zawta in the Bay Area. U Pyinya Zawta is the Executive Director in Exile of the All Burma Monks’ Alliance ABMA).  He was a leader of … Read more

The Last of the Saffron Monks

Here is a PDF of a wonderful article by Susie Poppick about our good friends in Brooklyn, the exiled Saffron Revolution monks of the All Burma Monks’ Alliance. This was published in the January 2011 issue of First Things, … Read more

Leading Saffron Revolution monk’s memoir

Article by U Pyinya Zawta, first published in Mizzima. U Pyinya Zawta spent almost 11 years in prison. He is now living in exile.

Burmese monks are known to have played an important role in their nation’s politics throughout its … Read more

Grace Under Pressure — The Plight of Burma’s Monks

Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions, courage that could be described as “grace under pressure”—grace which Read more

The Roots of the Saffron Revolution

Burma’s population is 90 percent Theravada Buddhist, so the more than 400,000 monks and 75,000 nuns represent the most stable, ongoing institution of national life. Historically, they have always played a role in society. Monks led the first anti-colonial activities … Read more