With „Prayers“ I will end my travel stories on Burma. I hope you enjoyed them. Thanks for following me to a different and distant world.

Myanmar, or Burma as the nation has been known throughout history, is one of the major countries following Theravada Buddhism. It is the most religious Buddhist country in terms of the proportion of monks in the population and proportion of income spent on religion. Theravada Buddhism is practiced in conjunction with Nat worship, which involves the placation of spirits who can intercede in worldly affairs.

With regard to the daily routines as Buddhists in Myanmar, there are two most popular practices: Merit-making and Vipassana (insight meditation). The Vipassana path, which has gained ground since the early 1900s, is a form of insight meditation believed to lead to enlightenment. The history of Buddhism in Burma probably extends more than two thousand years.

All those pictures I took at Shwedagon Paya in the capital Yangon.