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After the Anglicized intelligentsia of Burma, the traditionalist masses too came to be affected towards the turn of the century by manifestations of the Buddhist revival. In the Mandalay area, the center of Burmese Buddhism, a Buddha Sasana Noggaha Association was organized in 1897 to preserve and promote Buddhism which seemed to be fading under British rule1 (cf. p. no). On the whole the Buddhist revival was a movement initiated by laymen; its very rise presupposed phenomena of stagnation within the monastic order.2
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Sarkisyanz, E. (1965). Political Activization Trends within Burmese Buddhism and the Beginnings of Modern Burma’s Independence Struggle. In: Buddhist Backgrounds of the Burmese Revolution. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6283-0_19
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