Sixth Great Buddhist Council photo poster (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)
A Burmese-language photo-sheet headed with the name of the Sixth Great Buddhist Council. A hill-like pagoda mound, officials seated in prayer on mats, men reading at microphones and a view of the packed council hall are shown, around a drawn rising-sun motif. A footer names the American information service as publisher. The tell is transfer: the prestige of the council is attached to the sender by the footer credit.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- May 28, 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
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, May 28, 1956. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949128, 306-PPB-220).
Text on the object
ဆဠသံဂါယနာ [illegible: six photo captions in small Burmese script] အမေရိကန်ပြန်ကြားရေးဌာနမှ ထုတ်ဝေလှူဒါန်းသည် [illegible: imprint line at lower right]
Chattha Sangayana (Sixth Great Buddhist Council) [illegible: six photo captions] Published and donated by the American Information Service (approximate rendering of the footer). [illegible: imprint line]
Heading and footer read with reasonable confidence; the captions and imprint are marked illegible rather than guessed.
