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The Beginning and Development of Buddhist Culture in Myinmu Township Htwe Htwe Kyaw Myinmu is a town situated on Mandalay-Monywa highway in the Sagaing District in Sagaing Region. This paper is compiled to bring to light that Myinmu Township is a historic place where Sāsanā and ancient culture thrived. The age of this culture could be earlier than Pyu Period according to the findings from the current excavation. In compiling this paper it is based on the findings from the present excavation, ancient brick walls, stone inscriptions, bell inscriptions, palm-leaf manuscripts, folded paper manuscripts, ancient pagodas, pagoda historical evidences and Myinmu Township record. This paper is presented from different aspects of religion, social affairs, culture and Buddhist literature by employing historical and analytical methods. Presentation is also made on the fact that ancient people erected numerous stone inscriptions. This paper should be of value to research scholars attempting to get ancient cities to be included as world's heritages, research scholars of Myanmar history and literature scholars of Pāḷi and Myanmar literature. 2015 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12678/0000000393 https://meral.edu.mm/records/393