Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese opposition politician and chairperson of the National League for Democracy in Burma.
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s father died when she was two year old. Her father was assassinated by political rivals in Yangon.
In 1946, Aung San delivered a fiery pro-independence speech on the steps of Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. In 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi was catapulted to the opposition leadership by giving a passionate speech embracing the Buddhist principle of nonviolent protest.
Aung San Suu Kyi found in the Buddhist practice of vipassana that she gained control of her thoughts and became aware of the pros and cons of each act.
Vipassana is an insight meditation.
The NLD (National League for Democracy) is a democratic socialistic-liberal Burmese political party.
NLD was not able to take power after winning a sweeping electoral victory in 1990 because the military nullified the vote, is boycotting the vote.
Than Shwe is a Burmese Strongman politician who was chairman of the State Peace and Development Council. Than Shwe fused his Buddhism with belief in nats, or spirits, and yadaya, magic rituals performed to ward off misfortune.
Than Shwe’s wife attended a rededication and placed jewel-encrusted hti, or sacred umbrella, atop the spire. It is a sign that Than Shwe has done so many evil things. After Danok Pagoda, Than Shwe decided to step down – as a means of escaping his karmic destiny.
There are 4 million of mons in hammer, and 4 million soilders in beech.
In 2007, the “Saffron Revolution” is the protests were triggered by the decision of the national military government.
These “sons of Buddha” could organize discreetly inside their monasteries and spread pro-democracy, anti-regime sentiments to the people.
The protesting monks were shot and they were begging bowls in a tangle on the street, means that they refused to get the