Offering Compassion: Nourishing Monastics, Uplifting Souls
Your $10 can provide a day’s meal for devoted monks.
Nourishing Monastics
We provide regular, nutritious meals to monks, nuns, and novices, thereby ensuring they receive enough nutrition to sustain their spiritual practice.
Reviving Tradition
By organizing alms donations, we help revive a time-honored noble tradition deeply embedded in Myanmar’s culture, and we target communities where economic hardship has diminished the people’s ability to give.
Sustaining Impact
Our program is funded through crowdfunding and local donations received by supporters all around the world, enabling us to make a lasting impact and expand our efforts to support monastic communities in other regions of Myanmar.
A Noble Relationship at Risk
For centuries, the sacred connection between the Buddhist laity and monastics in Myanmar has been foundational to the country's spiritual and social fabric. In this deep, symbiotic relationship, the laity provide material support through alms and donations, and in return, monastics offer spiritual guidance and preserve the teachings of the Buddha. Despite political upheavals and societal challenges over the centuries, this bond has endured, symbolizing the collective effort to maintain the Buddha’s Sāsana in the Golden Land.
However, since the recent coup, the severe economic collapse has strained this noble tradition. Many lay supporters now struggle just to meet their basic needs, making it difficult to continue their customary offerings to monks. Aware of this hardship, some monasteries have stopped sending their monks on alms rounds altogether!
The Alms Round
Better Burma’s Alms Round Program organizes regular donations for monks, nuns, and novices in Myanmar, targeting areas that are in most urgent need of support, ensuring that monastics receive enough food on their daily rounds. Our initiative not only nurtures the connection between local communities and monastics, it preserves Myanmar’s timeless spiritual heritage while addressing the economic hardships impacting both groups.
A Mission to Support Burmese Monastics
And so in response, we are launching our Alms Rounds Program—inviting compassionate supporters from around the world to step in and help sustain this age-old practice. Wherever you live, you can contribute to helping keep alms rounds alive in Burma, ensuring that the spiritual heart of the nation continues to beat.
Please join us! Even the smallest offering can uplift and sustain the lives of monastics throughout Myanmar.
The Alms Round
Better Burma’s Alms Round Program organizes regular donations for monks, nuns, and novices in Myanmar, targeting areas that are in most urgent need of support, ensuring that monastics receive enough food on their daily rounds. Our initiative not only nurtures the connection between local communities and monastics, it preserves Myanmar’s timeless spiritual heritage while addressing the economic hardships impacting both groups.
