The same word is used for admission to the first level of Buddhist monkhood. |
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Because the state and the monkhood owned virtually all the productive land in Myanmar, there were no landed hereditary nobles who could weaken the power of the state. |
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His attempts to force the Buddhist monkhood and his subjects to accept his religious pretensions led to a rebellion organized by minor officials near the capital. |
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In those days people looked down on them, thinking that such Swamis were from a very poor family and that taking to monkhood was a way of earning a living. |
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