Myanmar tradition and culture

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La diversity of the people who make up Myanmar is so broad that it is claimed that there are groups belonging to 135 nationalities different who still share their own idioms and dialects.


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The term Myanmar implies all nationalitiesThey include: Bamar, Chin, Kachi, Kayah, Hayin, Mon, Takhine and Shan. Most of the settlers belong to the bamars, which constitute 69 percent of the total población of 47 million.


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One of the characteristics Most notable is the role played by Woman in the country. They participate in life social and gatherings and decisions on a totally igualitario with respect to man. Women go painted with the «Tánaka», a yellow and white substance.


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El interior of the country exhibits great diversity ethnic, With the presence of people coming from the regions mountainous. The river Ayeyarwadi acts as the backbone of this territorio.


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His flow rice fields and fishing depend craft, the main means of subsistence for the population. The Ayeyarwadi was the route used by the burma on their way south, and the path of the English to the heart of imperio.


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Life religious revolves around pagodas where the statues of Buddha they receive you with their innumerable gestures. According to the texts sacred it is possible to recognize a Buddha between 32 and 108 physical features.


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Four are the positions basic body (asana): standing, walking or sitting, showing a living Buddha performing a action (teaching, blessing, meditation ...), and lying, which represents his death and passage to parinirvana or definitive liberation, although according to the position the Buddha lying down can also mean repose.


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