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title: Buddha Jayanti photo poster, 2500th year (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/buddha-jayanti-photo-poster-burmese-rangoon-1956/
description: A Burmese-language photo-sheet under the heading Buddha Jayanti. Five black-and-white photographs show a crowd filling a large hall.
section: Collection
---

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# Buddha Jayanti photo poster, 2500th year (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)

A Burmese-language photo-sheet under the heading Buddha Jayanti. Five black-and-white photographs show a crowd filling a large hall, officials kneeling in white before a row of monks, a senior monk receiving offerings from a man in a head-cloth, and rows of shaven-headed novices with hands joined. A footer names the American information service as publisher. The tell is transfer: the standing of a major Buddhist anniversary is placed beside the sender's name.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (Burmese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ဗုဒ္ဓဇယန္တီ

[illegible: five photo captions in small Burmese script]

အမေရိကန်ပြန်ကြားရေးဌာနမှ ထုတ်ဝေလှူဒါန်းသည်

[illegible: imprint line at lower right]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Buddha Jayanti

[illegible: five photo captions]

Published and donated by the American Information Service (approximate rendering of the footer).

[illegible: imprint line]
```

Only the heading and footer could be read with confidence; the five captions and the imprint are marked illegible rather than guessed.

[← 10th Anniversary, Republic of the Philippines (English poster distributed in Manila)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tenth-anniversary-philippine-republic-1956/) [Might as well remove that sign. →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-might-as-well-remove-that-sign-1956/)

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