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State Pariyatti Sasana University, Mandalay

နိုင်ငံတော် ပရိယတ္တိသာသနာ့ တက္ကသိုလ် (မန္တလေး)
Other name	SPSU
Motto	သဗ္ဗဒါနံ ဓမ္မဒါနံ ဇိနာတိ sabbadānaṃ dhammadānaṃ jināti
Type	Public
Established	21 August 1986; 38 years ago (21 August 1986)
Affiliation	Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture (Myanmar)
Chancellor	Bhaddanta Kesarājā
Students	442
Address	62 Street, Mandalay, Mandalay Region, Myanmar 22°00′04″N 96°06′55″E / 22.001094°N 96.115394°E / 22.001094; 96.115394
Website	www.spsumdy.org

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The State Pariyatti Sasana University, Mandalay (Burmese: နိုင်ငံတော် ပရိယတ္တိသာသနာ့ တက္ကသိုလ် (မန္တလေး)) is a Buddhist university located in Mandalay, Myanmar, which teaches members of the Buddhist sangha, specifically in the Pitaka, Pali, Burmese language and Burmese literature, and missionary work. The university was opened on 21 August 1986. The university offers Bachelor of Arts (Sāsanatakkasīla Dhammācariya), Master of Arts (Sāsanatakkasīla Mahādhammācariya) and Ph.D (Sāsanatakkasīla Dhammapāragū) degrees, which are conferred as Burmese Buddhist titles. In 2018, 51 titles were conferred to Buddhist monks.

See also

• List of Buddhist universities across the world

References

1. ^ "Department for Promotion and Propagation of the Sanana". Ministry Of Religious Affairs. 2005. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
2. "A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF STATE PARIYATTI SÂSANA UNIVERSITY". Association of Theravāda Buddhist Universities. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
3. "Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture striving for long-lasting of the Sasana and preserving and protecting cultural heritage". Global New Light Of Myanmar. Archived from the original on October 2, 2018. Retrieved 2018-10-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

External websites

• Official website

• Universities and colleges in Mandalay
• Seminaries and theological colleges in Myanmar
• Buddhist universities and colleges in Myanmar
• Educational institutions established in 1996
• 1996 establishments in Myanmar