{"id":8428,"date":"2017-06-07T11:26:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T09:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bandeapartfilms.com\/nouveausite1\/the-venerable-w\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T17:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:45:40","slug":"the-venerable-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bandeapartfilms.com\/en\/the-venerable-w\/","title":{"rendered":"THE VENERABLE W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Burma, the \u00ab\u00a0Venerable W.\u00a0\u00bb is a highly influential Buddhist monk. To meet him is to find oneself in the heart of daily racism and watching how islamophobia and hate rhetoric transform into violence and destruction. 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