This powerpoint presentation will introduce us to the world of Burma or popularly known today as Myanmar. This just serves as a background information on the country to understand the representative piece which is On the Three Evils.

1. Trivia

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Clue

3. What is the coinage of the name
Myanmar?
a. Burmese word for independence
b. Burmese word for the martial
attributes of strong and fast
Answer

4. If Japan is the land of the rising sun
and Thailand is the land of the free,
what about Burma (Myanmar)?
a. Land of Spirits and Stars
b. Land of the Khmers
Answer

5. Who conquered Burma
(Myanmar)?
a. Dutch
b. British
Answer

6. What is the former name of U Nu?
a. Thakin Nu
b. Thekin Nu
Answer

7. Why did U Nu drop the prewar
title, “Thakin”?
a. Burmese were required by the Englishmen
to use it in addressing themselves.
b. Burmese are now masters in their house.
Answer

8. What is the meaning of U Nu?
a. U means roughly “Respected Sir,” or “Uncle”
and Nu is a Saturday name meaning “soft” or
gentle”.
b. U means roughly Major-General or
Generalissimo and Nu means benevolent.
Answer

9. The official name of the
country is the Union of
Myanmar (Myanmar from
the Burmese word for the
martial attributes of strong
and fast).

10. Cambodia = Land of Khmer
Myanmar = Land of the Spirits and Stars

11. British and Japanese did a
part in the invasion of the
country, Burma but Dutch
didn’t.

12. Thakin (master) was the title the
Englishmen insisted that they be
addressed by Burmese.
Thakin Nu then means Master Nu.

14. U = “Respected Sir” or
“Uncle”
Nu = soft/gentle
U Nu = Sir Nu

15. Answer

17. On the Three Evils
By: Prime Minister U Nu

18. Astray (adv.)  away
from the right path
Example Sentence:
Humanity has been led astray by
three evils….

19. Inevitable (adj.) 
impossible to avoid
Example Sentence:
…we cannot escape the three
inevitable…

20. Transitory (adj.)  not
permanent
Example Sentence:
Nor can anybody deny that
property is transitory…

21. Dogged tenacity (adj.
phrase)  determined in
persisting something.
Example Sentence:
Men have been chasing these
transitory pleasures with dogged

22. Samsara (n.)  Hindu
cycle of death and rebirth
Example Sentence:
They forget that this life is not even one
millionth part of the whirlpool of Samsara…

23. Insatiable (adj.) 
always wanting more
Example Sentence:
This insatiable greed for wealth
results in the profit motive…

24. Commodity (n.) useful
thing
Example Sentence:
…all commodities were common
property…

25. Exploitation (n.) unfair
treatment or use
Example Sentence:
…these commodities became
objects of exploitation.

26. Padaythabin (n.) 
fictional tree growing in the
heaven of the ‘Nats’ which is
said to produce whatever is
wanted
Philippines = Christmas tree
Burma = Padaythabin tree

27. Ad infinitum (adv. &
Latin term)  endlessly
Example Sentence:
…the process goes on ad