A mid-1950s conference held in this country that produced a series of textual redactions was partially hosted in the Mahapasana Guha, or Great Cave, constructed to resemble the venue used for a similar purpose 2,500 years earlier. During this country’s New Year festival, ponnas make prophecies based on the choice of the mount of a god who writes down the names of sinners in a dog-skin-bound book. The cosmogony (“koz-MOG-uh-nee”) of this country’s folk religion is collected in the Book of Adikalpa, while its national epic is a version of the Rāmāyaṇa called the Yama Zatdaw (“yah-mah ZAH-toh”). A set of 37 deities are considered to be the canonical set of this country’s animistic nat spirits, whose worship is rejected by Baptists among the Karen (“kah-REN”) people. For 10 points, name this country where members of the Theravāda Buddhist 969 Movement have persecuted Muslims like the Rohingya. ■END■
ANSWER: Myanmar [or Burma; or Bama; or Mranma; or Republic of the Union of Myanmar or Pyidaunzu Thanmăda Myăma Nainngandaw] (The conference in the first sentence is the Sixth Buddhist council. Thingyan is the New Year festival.)
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