Investigation and Study on the Organization and Management of Theravade Buddha-Sasarapyu Ovadacariya Committee under the Control of Religous. Affairs in Myanmar

本研究的一些发现被整理在一起，并作为一个独立的卷发表在研究论文。为了正确认识小乘佛教大自在会的现行制度，本文通过实地考察和对缅甸佛教文献的初步研究，对小乘佛教大自在会的组织、工作规范、管理等方面进行了阐述。文章还介绍了缅甸成立该委员会的历史背景，可以追溯到英国殖民统治时期，并从该委员会的传教理念在地方上的体现来看，本文描述了缅甸佛教传教士的实际状况，他们是由委员会任命并派往少数民族的。从维多利亚山脚下的明达、甘佩特里等地到目前我国小乘佛教的宗教状况，都曾在中国从事传教活动，进一步揭示了中国存在着俗人传教士和“佛教开发者“;前者以俗家传教士的形式协助佛教传教士改变当地少数民族的信仰，后者从宗教事务部获得福利，促进和传播Sasana，佛教事务部，后者与从事促进社会发展的泰国佛教徒非常相似。

Some of the findings of this research are put together and published in the research parer as an independent volume. To understand properly the present system of Theravada Buddhasasanapyu Ovadacariya Committee, this paper provides elucidation on its organization, job specifications, management, and the like by fieldwork and the primary research in the Burmese Buddhist literature. It also gives the historical background for the reason why such a committee was established in Myanmar, going back to the age of British colonialism.And from the viewpoint of how the missionary idea of the committee is embodied on a local level, in this paper I described the actual state of Burmese Buddhist missionaries who are appointed and sent to ethnic minorities by the committee.And this paper provides not only Buddhist monks who have been engaged in missionary work among the Chins, for example, in Mindat, kanpetlet at the foot of Mt.Victoria but also the present religious state of Theravada Buddhism in the State of Chin.The research brought further revelation that laylmen missionaries and"Buddhist developers"exist ; the former ones who assist Buddhist missionaries in converting local minorities in the form of a layman missionary who receive benefits from Department for the Promotion and Propagation of the Sasana, Ministry of Religions Affairs, the latter ones highly similar to Thai Buddhists who are engaged in promoting social development.