Editing Veneration of the dead (section)

===Myanmar===
Ancestor worship in modern-day Myanmar is largely confined to some ethnic minority communities, but mainstream remnants of it still exist, such as worship of [[Bo Bo Gyi]] (literally "great grandfather"), as well as of other guardian spirits such as [[nat (spirit)|nats]], all of which may be vestiges of historic ancestor worship.<ref name="sad">{{cite book|last=Sadan|first=Mandy|title=Burma at the turn of the twenty-first century|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|year=2005|isbn=978-0-8248-2897-4|editor=Skidmore|editor-first=Monique|location=Hawaii|pages=90–111}}</ref>

Ancestor worship was present in the royal court in pre-colonial Burma. During the [[Konbaung dynasty]], solid [[gold]] images of deceased kings and their consorts were worshipped three times a year by the royal family, during the Burmese New Year (''[[Thingyan]]''), at the beginning and at the end of [[Vassa]].<ref name="harv">{{cite book|last=Harvey|first=G. E.|title=History of Burma|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.32059|publisher=Longmans|year=1925|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.32059/page/n385 327]–328}}</ref> The images were stored in the treasury and worshiped at the Zetawunzaung ({{lang|my|ဇေတဝန်ဆောင်}}, "Hall of Ancestors"), along with a book of odes.<ref name="harv"/>

Some scholars attribute the disappearance of ancestor worship to the influence of [[Buddhist]] doctrines of [[anicca]] and [[anatta]], impermanence and rejection of a 'self'.<ref>{{cite book|last=Spiro|first=Melford E.|title=Burmese Supernaturalism|publisher=Transaction Publishers|year=1978|pages=69–70|isbn=978-1-56000-882-8}}</ref>