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Title Keepers of the faith : the Buddhist nuns of Sagaing Hills / written and produced by Hiroko Kawanami
Published London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file (52 min.))
Summary In the Sagaing Hills, 12 miles from the ancient capital of Mandalay are hundreds of pagodas, stupas, monasteries and nunneries which form a focal point of worship for Buddhism in Burma. In 1986 the filmmaker used to live for 15 months as a nun in the Thameikdaw Gaung nunnery. Some years later she is coming back for a visit in order to see what has changed. This is an intimate insight into the daily life of a nunnery as well a portrait of the monastic economy and its interactions with the society
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013)
This edition in English and an undetermined language with English subtitles
Subject Buddhist nuns -- Burma -- Sagaing
Buddhist nuns
Burma -- Sagaing
Genre/Form Documentary films
Ethnographic films
Nonfiction films
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentaires.
Films ethnographiques.
Films autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Kawanami, Hiroko, director, producer.