State Pariyatti Sasana University, Yangon

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| name = State Pariyatti Sāsana University, Yangon

| native_name = {{lang|my|နိုင်ငံတော် ပရိယတ္တိသာသနာ့ တက္ကသိုလ်(ရန်ကုန်)}}

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| motto = {{lang|my|သဗ္ဗဒါနံ ဓမ္မဒါနံ ဇိနာတိ}}
sabbadānaṃ dhammadānaṃ jināti

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| established = {{start date and age|26 June 1986}}

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| affiliation = Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture (Myanmar)

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| city = Yangon

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| province = Yangon Region

| country = Myanmar

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| coordinates = {{coords|16.855641|96.153273}}

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State Pariyatti Sāsana University, Yangon ({{langx|my|နိုင်ငံတော် ပရိယတ္တိသာသနာ့ တက္ကသိုလ် (ရန်ကုန်)}}) is a Buddhist university located in Yangon, 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 26 June 1986.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mora.gov.mm/mora_sasana2.aspx|title=Department for Promotion and Propagation of the Sanana|date=2005|website=Ministry Of Religious Affairs|access-date=2018-10-02}}

The university offers Bachelor of Arts (Sāsanatakkasīla Dhammācariya) and Master of Arts (Sāsanatakkasīla Mahādhammācariya) degrees,{{Cite web|url=http://atbu.org/node/31|title=A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF STATE PARIYATTI SÂSANA UNIVERSITY|website=Association of Theravāda Buddhist Universities|language=en|access-date=2018-10-02}} which are conferred as Burmese Buddhist titles. In 2018, 128 titles were conferred to Buddhist monks.{{Cite web|url=http://www.globalnewlightofmyanmar.com/ministry-religious-affairs-culture-striving-long-lasting-sasana-preserving-protecting-cultural-heritage/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002142009/http://www.globalnewlightofmyanmar.com/ministry-religious-affairs-culture-striving-long-lasting-sasana-preserving-protecting-cultural-heritage/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=October 2, 2018|title=Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture striving for long-lasting of the Sasana and preserving and protecting cultural heritage|website=Global New Light Of Myanmar|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-02}}

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