Keepers of the faith : the Buddhist nuns of Sagaing Hills / written and produced by Hiroko Kawanami.
In the Sagaing Hills, 12 miles from the ancient capital of Mandalay are hundreds of pagodas, stupas, monasteries and nunneries which form a focal point of worship for Buddhism in Burma. In 1986 the filmmaker used to live for 15 months as a nun in the Thameikdaw Gaung nunnery. Some years later she is...
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Royal Anthropological Institute,
1996.
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