The King Bayinnaung of Burma, after conquering the Bago in 1559, the Buddhist King prohibited the practice of halal, specifically, killing food animals in the name of God.

* U Dhammaloka (? Laurence Carroll ), Buddhist monk and anti-missionary agitator in Burma, born in Dublin

The Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia, including Myanmar ( Burma ), Thailand, Laos and Cambodia traditionally harvested ivory from their domesticated elephants.

In Burma, the kammavaca, Buddhist manuscripts, were inscribed on brass, copper or ivory sheets, and even on discarded monk robes folded and lacquered.

Despite border ( both territorial and nautical ) tensions and the forced migration of 270, 000 Rohingya Muslims from Buddhist Burma in 1978, relations with Bangladesh have generally been cordial, albeit tense at times.

Before the modern era, the Bhikkhuni Sangha spread to most Buddhist countries including Burma ( also known as Myanmar ), with the notable exceptions being Tibet and Thailand.

* Buddhist temple construction commences at Bagan, Burma

Buddhist nuns in Rangoon, Burma.

* The Burmese position, named so because of its use in Buddhist sculptures in Burma, places both feet in front of the pelvis with knees bent and touching the floor to the sides.

In 1955, following a stint as an economic advisor to the government of Burma, he published the short paper " Economics in a Buddhist Country ," his first known critique of the effects of Western economics on developing countries.

In Thailand, Burma and other majority Buddhist societies, Buddhist teachings and social decorum are sometimes taught in public school.

In 457, King Anuruth of Burma sent a mission to Ceylon with a request for Buddhist scriptures and the Emerald Buddha, in order to promote Buddhism in his country.

* 1908: Charles Henry Allan Bennett a British national previously ordained as a Theravada monk as Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya in Burma leads the First Buddhist Mission to the West.

The majority of Shan are Theravada Buddhists, and the Shan constitute one of the four main Buddhist ethnic groups in Burma ; the others are the Bamar, the Mon and the Rakhine.

In 457, King Anuruth of Burma sent a mission to Ceylon to ask for Buddhist scriptures and the Emerald Buddha, in order to support Buddhism in his country.

After taking the vows of a Buddhist monk for about 3 years, Sin joined the service of King Ekatat and was first deputy governor and later governor of the Tak, which gained him his name Phraya Tak, the governor of Tak, which was exposed to danger from Burma, though his official noble title was " Phraya Tak ".

Even though King Taksin had applied himself to reforming the Buddhist religion after its period of decline following the loss of Ayutthaya to Burma, gradually bringing it back to the normalcy it enjoyed during the Ayutthaya kingdom, since his reign was so brief he was not able to do very much.

Uparaja or Ouparath, also Ouparaja (, ), was a royal title reserved for the vice royal in the Buddhist dynasties in Burma, Cambodia, and Laos and Thailand as well as some of their minor tributary kingdoms.

** The Shwedagon Pagoda, also known as the Golden Pagoda, is a Buddhist pagoda in Yangon, Burma that is plated in solid gold.

He served as adviser to the India Planning Commission, as well as to the governments of Zambia and Burma — an experience that led to his much-read essay on " Buddhist Economics.

Buddhist Burma, Judson was told by the Serampore Baptists, was impermeable to Christian evangelism.

In the 1950s, Burma's Buddhist prime minister U Nu told the Burma Christian Council " Oh no, a new translation is not necessary.

Mindon introduced the first machine-struck coins to Burma, and in 1871 also held the Fifth Buddhist council in Mandalay.

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In the pariah castes, Tibet had untouchables known as Ra-gyap-pa, just like Eta-Hinin of Japan, Para-gyoon of Burma, and Baekjeong of Korea.

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Shortly thereafter Japan was granted free passage, and on December 21, 1941, Thailand and Japan signed a military alliance with a secret protocol wherein Tokyo agreed to help Thailand regain territories lost to the British and French ( i. e. the Shan States of Burma, Malaya, Singapore, & part of Yunnan, plus Laos & Cambodia ) Subsequently, Thailand undertook to ' assist ' Japan in its war against the Allies.

Increasing numbers of migrants from Burma, Laos, and Cambodia as well as nations such as Nepal, India, along with those from the West and Japan have pushed the number of non-nationals residing in Thailand to close to 2 million in 2008, up from about 1. 3 million in the year 2000.

Japan declared war in December 1941, and quickly seized Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore, and Burma, and threatened Australia and India.

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In addition to tributary relations with the Kushans, the Han Empire received gifts from the Parthian Empire, from a king in modern Burma, from a ruler in Japan, and initiated an unsuccessful mission to Daqin ( Rome ) in 97 CE with Gan Ying as emissary.

* A trip to Asia, specifically India, Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ), Burma, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, and Japan in 1953 had opened his eyes to the consequences of colonialism and imperialism.

There are numerous variations of soy sauce being produced in China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Burma and other countries.

The Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, the Thailand – Burma Railway and similar names, was a railway between Bangkok, Thailand, and Rangoon, Burma ( now Yangon, Myanmar ), built by the Empire of Japan during World War II, to support its forces in the Burma campaign.

The construction of the Burma Railway is counted as a war crime committed by Japan in Asia.

During this time they planned to " speedily extract bauxite, oil, rubber and metals from Malaya, Burma, the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, and ship these materials to Japan for processing ".

Britain was now also at war with Imperial Japan, whose forces inflicted rapid defeats on British forces in Asia, capturing Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore and Burma.

By May 1967, bookstores in 117 countries and territories around the world – including Great Britain, France, Spain, Japan, Russia, Germany, Italy, Nepal, Indonesia, Burma, Iran, Arab and African nations and others – were distributing Mao's Quotations.

Máxima has toured all across the Netherlands and has visited many different countries in the past years on official visits and state visits with the Queen, including Norway, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Belgium, the Baltic States, Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, U. S., Turkey, Chile, Morocco, India, Burma, Australia, New Zealand, Aruba, Thailand, Cameroon, Russia, Qatar, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, China, the Antilles, Slovenia, Antarctica, Paraguay, Bhutan, Mongolia, Vietnam, Kenya and Mexico, among others.

Upon hearing of the loss of Burma by Japan, he suffered a stroke on 10 May 1945.

Initially composed of Indian prisoners of war captured by Japan in the Malayan campaign and at Singapore, it later drew volunteers from Indian expatriate population in Malaya and Burma.