Fifth Buddhist council
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title:
Fifth Buddhist council
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The Fifth Buddhist Council took place in Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) in 1871 CE under the auspices of King Mindon of Burma (Myanmar). The chief objective of this meeting was to recite all the teachings of the Gautama Buddha according to the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism 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 bhikkhus, Mahathera Jagarabhivamsa, Narindabhidhaja, and Mahathera Sumangalasami in the company
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1871 meeting of Buddhist monks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Buddhist_council
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2006-06-01T01:46:07Z
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2024-08-31T16:58:23Z
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