- Some
distinguished sayadaws would often be
referred to as a
sayadawgyi (ဆရာတော်ကြီး, as a sign of reverence. The
terms "
sayadaw" and "sayadawgyi" originally...
- Mahāsī
Sayādaw U
Sobhana (Burmese: မဟာစည်ဆရာတော် ဦးသောဘန,
pronounced [məhàsì sʰəjàdɔ̀ ʔú θɔ́bəna̰]; 29 July 1904 – 14
August 1982) was a
Burmese Theravada...
- Ledi
Sayadaw U Ñaṇadhaja (Burmese: လယ်တီဆရာတော် ဦးဉာဏဓဇ,
pronounced [lɛ̀dì sʰəjàdɔ̀ ʔú ɲàna̰dəza̰]; 1
December 1846 – 27 June 1923) was an influential...
- Webu
Sayadaw (Burmese: ဝေဘူ ဆရာတော်,
pronounced [wèbù sʰəjàdɔ̀]; 17
February 1896 – 26 June 1977) was a
Theravada Buddhist monk, and vip****anā master...
- Candimābhivaṃsa,
commonly known by his
position as
Thanlyin Mingyaung Sayadaw, is the
current Thathanabaing or
Sangharaja of Myanmar, as the
fifth head...
- The
Venerable Mingun Sayadaw U Vicittasārābhivaṃsa (Burmese: မင်းကွန်းဆရာတော် ဦးဝိစိတ္တသာရာဘိဝံသ,
pronounced [mɪ́ɰ̃ɡʊ́ɰ̃ sʰəjàdɔ̀ ʔú wḭseiʔda̰ θàɹà bḭwʊ̀ɰ̃θa̰];...
-
global audience.
Sayadaw U
Tejaniya lived as a
householder running a
textile business until age thirty-six,
which is
atypical for
Sayadaws in Myanmar. At...
-
Ashin Nyanissara (Burmese: ဉာဏိဿရ; IAST: Ñāṇissara) best
known as
Sitagu Sayadaw (သီတဂူဆရာတော်), is a
Burmese meditation teacher and
prolific Buddhist scholar...
-
Ashin Kovida (Burmese: ကောဝိဒ; born 14 May 1957), best
known as
Vasipake Sayadaw (Burmese: ဝစီပိတ်ဆရာတော်), is a
Burmese Buddhist monk,
astrologer and occult...
- The
Taunggwin Sayadaw U
Visuddha Silacaraha (တောင်ခွင်ဆရာတော် ဦးဝိသုဒ္ဓ သီလာစာရဟာ) was the last
Buddhist monk to hold the
office as
Thathanabaing of Burma...
