Question

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 (-5[1])of the mount (10[1])of a god who writes down the names of sinners in a dog-skin-bound book. The cosmogony (-5[1])(“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 (-5[1])called (-5[1])the Yama (-5[1])Zatdaw (“yah-mah ZAH-toh”). A (10[1])set of 37 deities (-5[1])are considered to be the canonical set of this country’s animistic (-5[1])nat spirits, whose worship is rejected by Baptists (10[1])among the (10[1])Karen (“kah-REN”) people. (10[3])For 10 points, name this country (10[2])where members of the Theravāda Buddhist 969 (10[3])Movement (10[2])have persecuted Muslims (10[1])like the Rohingya. (10[3])■END■ (10[3])

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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Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y21100%0%33%127.52

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Swapnil GargUC Berkeley AImperial A49-5
Isak JatoiSouth Carolina AWUSTL A5210
Daniel MaYale AOhio State A68-5
Nikhil ChellamNorthwestern ABrown A90-5
Alex PijanowskiPurdue AYale B91-5
Sanjay SrihariGeorgia Tech BMinnesota B93-5
Ashish SubramanianDuke AChicago C9510
Raymond WangCornell AVirginia A99-5
Vinu HariharUC Berkeley BColumbia A110-5
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn AChicago A11810
Tracy MirkinFlorida AToronto A12010
Hari ParameswaranGeorgia Tech AMIT A12210
Stevie MillerMaryland AHarvard A12210
Conor ThompsonIowa State ANorth Carolina A12210
Halle FriedmanNYU ACornell B12810
Anson BernsBrown ANorthwestern A12810
Subhamitra Banerjee RoychoudhuryMichigan AIllinois A13510
John MarvinChicago BJohns Hopkins A13510
Clark SmithOhio State AYale A13510
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BTexas A13610
Gideon KpurubuVanderbilt ARutgers A13610
Albert ZhangColumbia BIndiana A13910
Shardul RaoMinnesota AHouston A14210
Karsten RynearsonYale BPurdue A14210
Noah SheidlowerColumbia AUC Berkeley B14210
Nicholas TunksMinnesota BGeorgia Tech B14310
Rahim DinaImperial AUC Berkeley A14310
Alana DickeyVirginia ACornell A14310