State Pariyatti Sasana University, Mandalay | |
Native Name Lang: | my |
Other Name: | SPSU |
Motto: | sabbadānaṃ dhammadānaṃ jināti |
Motto Lang: | my |
Type: | Public |
Affiliation: | Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture (Myanmar) |
Chancellor: | Bhaddanta Kesarājā |
Students: | 442 |
Address: | 62 Street |
City: | Mandalay |
Province: | Mandalay Region |
Country: | Myanmar |
Coordinates: | 22.0011°N 96.1154°W |
The State Pariyatti Sasana University, Mandalay (Burmese: နိုင်ငံတော် ပရိယတ္တိသာသနာ့ တက္ကသိုလ် (မန္တလေး)) is a Buddhist university located in Mandalay, Myanmar, which teaches members of the Buddhist sangha, specifically in the Pitaka, Pali, Burmese language and Burmese literature, and missionary work. The university was opened on 21 August 1986.[1] The university offers Bachelor of Arts (Sāsanatakkasīla Dhammācariya), Master of Arts (Sāsanatakkasīla Mahādhammācariya) and Ph.D (Sāsanatakkasīla Dhammapāragū) degrees,[2] which are conferred as Burmese Buddhist titles. In 2018, 51 titles were conferred to Buddhist monks.[3]