State Pariyatti Sasana University, Yangon

State Pariyatti Sāsana University, Yangon (Burmese: နိုင်ငံတော် ပရိယတ္တိသာသနာ့ တက္ကသိုလ် (ရန်ကုန်)) is a Buddhist university located in Yangon, Myanmar, which teaches members of the Buddhist sangha, specifically in the Pitaka, Pali, Burmese language and Burmese literature, and missionary work.^[1] The university was opened on 26 June 1986.^[1]

State Pariyatti Sāsana University, Yangon

နိုင်ငံတော် ပရိယတ္တိသာသနာ့ တက္ကသိုလ်(ရန်ကုန်)
Motto	သဗ္ဗဒါနံ ဓမ္မဒါနံ ဇိနာတိ sabbadānaṃ dhammadānaṃ jināti
Type	Public
Established	26 June 1986; 38 years ago (26 June 1986)
Affiliation	Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture (Myanmar)
Location	Yangon , Yangon Region , Myanmar 16.855641°N 96.153273°E / 16.855641; 96.153273
Website	spsuygn.edu.mm

The university offers Bachelor of Arts (Sāsanatakkasīla Dhammācariya) and Master of Arts (Sāsanatakkasīla Mahādhammācariya) degrees,^[2] which are conferred as Burmese Buddhist titles. In 2018, 128 titles were conferred to Buddhist monks.^[3]

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)