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Podcast: Insight Myanmar
Episode: A Moral Reckoning
Description: Episode #406: âI didnât come to study this subject deliberately with a focus on Buddhism,â says Justine Chambers, author of Pursuing Morality, a book that explores Buddhist moral life among the Plong community in southeast Myanmarâknown to outsiders as Pwo Karenâparticularly in and around the town of Hpaan. Her work, the product of many years of immersive fieldwork, traces not only Buddhist ethical practices in everyday life but also the entanglements of those practices with political transitions, spiritual power, armed conflict, and minority identity in Karen State. Chambersâ journey began with refugee advocacy in Australia and continued...