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Many people in the West view the coup and its violent aftermath in Myanmar as taking place in some far-off, exotic land that has little bearing on our own lives. Please read this 🧵...
Today is the Full Moon of Thadingyut, and across Myanmar the Festival of Lights will arrive again in its familiar glow, carrying with it a feeling older than celebration — a season of reflection, gratitude, and the quiet tenderness of asking forgiveness,… instagr.am/p/De9dSuVlymT/
In Silicon Valley, Khemarato Bhikkhu worked to improve lives through technology and education. Today, as a Buddhist monk in Thailand’s forest tradition, he walks for alms, practices meditation, and follows a path shaped by the Buddha’s teachings on suffe… instagr.am/p/De9RidGy7aF/
May all the lights of Dhamma shine in the Thadingyut Festival ift.tt/Tu32Qlj
Algorithms of Becoming: Social Media and the Intensification of Craving ift.tt/QmrSKjA
Beth Upton’s teaching begins from a refusal to make the Dharma smaller than it is, even when doing so would make it easier to sell, easier to explain, or easier for Western students to digest.
She explains in Episode 97 that she carries the Pa-Auk inhe… instagr.am/p/De72AYLDS7m/
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In Episode 590, historian Chie Ikeya discusses the argument at the center of her book "Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma": that the celebrated “high status” of Burmese women was never as simple as later accounts made it seem. Drawing … instagr.am/p/De5REnzDYJ_/
October 24, 2026 is United Nations Day, the anniversary of the UN Charter coming into force in 1945, a date meant to feel like a promise the world made to itself after it had seen what happens when power is left unchecked. The UN was built as an answer t… instagr.am/p/De4TgM1lyWV/
In Episode 589, historian Wenxu Zhang discusses Rangoon’s Chinese diaspora during the interwar years, especially the violence surrounding the 1930–31 riots. Zhang’s work places the Chinese community inside a city that was then one of Southeast Asia’s gre… instagr.am/p/De2sWZpDLTe/
There’s something these conversations make possible that, not long ago, simply didn’t exist in Myanmar spaces.
Through the Insight Myanmar Podcast, stories don’t just inform — they transport. Voices carry you into monasteries, kitchens, classrooms, vill… instagr.am/p/De1vAI5DBVx/
“They don’t sleep with their leg on.”
For prosthetist Jason Bender, this simple observation challenges a common misconception: providing a prosthetic limb does not mean the work of recovery is complete.
Bender spent seven years in Myanmar, fitting pros… instagr.am/p/De1d2qxSIrY/
In Episode 588, historian Douglas Ober discusses "Dust on the Throne," his study of Buddhism in modern India and the much messier history concealed beneath the familiar story of disappearance and revival. Ober explains that he himself first entered this … instagr.am/p/De0Hi2ZjGkF/
What stays with us most isn’t a spike in attention during a breaking moment, but the fact that so many of you have stayed long after the headlines faded.
Myanmar’s crisis has not moved in clean chapters. It has stretched on, grown more complex, more fra… instagr.am/p/DerHqwYyOln/
Nay Chi Min Htun learned how to fight a revolution before she fully understood what it might take to lead one.
Before Myanmar’s 2021 military coup, she was a university student in Yangon. When peaceful protests were met with deadly violence, she joined … instagr.am/p/Dey3oGpSu7U/
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Max Ante spent more than thirty years meditating two hours a day and more than two decades organizing his life around the Goenka Vipassana tradition. He did not approach it casually. He sat long courses in India, traveled to Myanmar on pilgrimage, briefl… instagr.am/p/DerHVb2Sgdn/
In Myanmar, even an ordinary shortcut can become a deadly risk when landmines are laid without warning.
Rory McCann, a 25-year veteran of the Irish Army who spent nearly two years as the ICRC's Weapons Contamination Specialist in Myanmar, describes how … instagr.am/p/Deqio0oSPjY/
