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The Fifth Buddhist council (Burmese: ပဉ္စမသင်္ဂါယနာ) took place in
Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) in 1871 AD in the reign of King Mindon. The
chief objective of this meeting was to recite all the teachings of the
Buddha according to the Theravada Pali Canon and examine them in
minute detail to see if any of them had been altered, distorted or
dropped. It was presided over by three Elders, the Venerable Mahathera
Jagarabhivamsa, the Venerable Narindabhidhaja, and the Venerable
Mahathera Sumangalasami in the company of 2,400 monks. Their joint
Dhamma recitation lasted five months.
The Fifth Buddhist council was a Burmese affair, and most other
Buddhist countries were not involved in it. It is not generally
recognized outside Burma.[1] It has been argued that, since the
Theravadin multinational Sixth Buddhist council received the name of
"Sixth Buddhist council", this involved implicitly recognizing the
fifth, even though most other nations were not involved in the fifth
council, and the results of the fifth council were limited to the
Burmese edition of the Pali Canon only. However, there were a number
of other councils held in Ceylon and Thailand between the fourth and
sixth, so the total can be made up in other ways.[2]
References
^ Mendelson, Sangha and State in Burma, Cornell University Press,
Ithaca, New York, 1975, pages 276f
^ Brandon (ed), Dictionary of Comparative Religion, Weidenfeld &
Nicholson, 1970, article on "Councils, Buddhist"
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