Mon State

Some areas of Burma are more strict than other areas.

Like Mon State tends to be somewhat stricter, has a higher quality of Vinaya practice than other parts of Burma.

Some sects, like the Shwe Jin sect, has slightly better Vinaya practice than the Sudama sect in Burma.

but yeah it's i mean it's it's kind of depressing if you go into the sangha as this starry-eyed idealist and then you realize that you're still on your own you're not being supported by the sangha in certain ways you know with regard to strict practice and so forth unless you really choose a good abbot who's really going to encourage you to be strict So I had, when I was a junior monk, I had a few teachers who, even though they didn't dare go against what the other monks were doing, because the Burmese are very conformity oriented culture.

Households in Irrawaddy region are reportedly receiving about six hours of electricity a day.

In Mon State, livestock farmers said the cost of essential supplies have increased by more than thirty percent.

They are struggling with rising costs for feed and veterinary medicines.

Some operating costs have increased twelvefold since the twenty twenty-one coup.