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
- Date
- August 23, 1956
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- Theme
- Religion
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, August 23, 1956. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949009, 306-PPB-137).
Text on the object
အမေရိကန်တွင်ကျင်းပသော သာသနာ-၂၅၀၀-ပြည့်ပွဲတော် [illegible: five photo captions in Burmese script]
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.
