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title: Jayanti Festival poster, 2500th Anniversary in America (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jayanti-festival-poster-burmese-rangoon-1956/
description: A Burmese-language photo poster of a Buddhist 2,500th-anniversary (Jayanti) observance held in the United States.
section: Collection
---

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# Jayanti Festival poster, 2500th Anniversary in America (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)

A Burmese-language photo poster of a Buddhist 2,500th-anniversary (Jayanti) observance held in the United States. Photographs show an altar with a seated Buddha, candles and flowers, women and monks at a stage altar, a monk reading at a podium with microphones, a kneeling woman and a standing crowd of Asian and American attendees with hands joined. The headline reads as the Buddhist Sasana 2500th anniversary festival in America. The tell is transfer, with respect for Buddhist observance attached to the American hosts.

## 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

```
အမေရိကန်တွင်ကျင်းပသော
သာသနာ-၂၅၀၀-ပြည့်ပွဲတော်

[illegible: five photo captions in Burmese script]
```

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

```
The Sasana 2500th-Anniversary Festival held in America. [Photo captions not transcribed or translated.]
```

Only the headline was transcribed; the five captions are too small to read reliably.

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