Myanmar

2 profiled groups with documented operations in Myanmar — 0 Extreme-band, 1 High-band, 1 Moderate or below. Presence here describes documented operations, not a judgement about Myanmar or its communities; many listed groups also operate elsewhere.

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Buddhist

Burmese 969 / Ma Ba Tha movement (U Wirathu)

Burmese Theravada-Buddhist nationalist movement built around the 969 Movement (2001+) and the Association for the Protection of Race and Religion (Ma Ba Tha, founded 2013) and identified primarily with the monk U Wirathu (b. 1968). UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (2018) documented Wirathu's rhetoric as a material contributor to the environment that produced the 2017 genocide of the Rohingya Muslim population. Distinct from mainstream Burmese Theravada and Sri Lankan Theravada traditions, with which it shares no doctrinal authority.

Buddhist

Theravada Buddhism (mainstream)

Mainstream Theravada Buddhism — the dominant tradition of Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos — is a low-CLCI reference point with voluntary lay practice and a self-disciplined monastic Sangha.

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