Sayādaw U Vāseṭṭha ထေရုပ္ပတ္တိ အကျဉ်း (brief introduction): Sayādaw U Vasettha (Vāseṭṭha) was born in 1959 to a Chinese father and a Burmese mother. He grew up in Yangon and was initiated at the age of 12 into the satipaṭṭhāna meditation at the Mahāsī centre in Yangon during the master’s lifetime. He was also able to …
Venerable Pānaduwe Khemānanda ထေရုပ္ပတ္တိ အကျဉ်း (brief introduction): Since the passing away of Venerable Ñānārāma on 30 April 1992, Venerable Pānaduwe Khemānanda became the Abbott of Mitirigala Nissarana Vanaya. Since that time and until his death at 11.30 pm on 1 July 2006, Venerable Khemānanda continued to lead Mitirigala Nissarana Vanaya, attending to all aspects of …
Matara Sri Nanarama Mahāthera ထေရုပ္ပတ္တိ အကျဉ်း (brief introduction): Most Ven. Matara Sri Nanarama Mahā Thera (December 11, 1901 – April 30, 1992) (spelled Ñāṇārāma in Pāḷi, sometimes called Gnanarama in Sinhala) was an influential Sri Lankan meditation master, scholar and forest monk of the 20th century.Childhood Dedduwa Jayathungage Don Bastian family of the Bajjima Village …
Ven. Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu ထေရုပ္ပတ္တိ အကျဉ်း (brief introduction): Venerable Yuttadhammo (formerly Noah Greenspoon) is a Canadian-born Theravāda Buddhist monk, ordained in 2001 under the guidance of Venerable Ajaan Tong Sirimangalo of Chiang Mai, Thailand. He has practiced intensive and daily meditation following the Mahāsī Sayādaw tradition since January 2000. He keeps discipline in line with the …
Sayādaw U Thitzanālaṅkāra ထေရုပ္ပတ္တိ အကျဉ်း (brief introduction): ဒွိပိဋကဓရ ဒွိပိဋကကောဝိဒ ၊ သာသနဓဇ သိရီပဝရ ဓမ္မာစရိယ၊ ဝိနယပါဠိပါရဂူ ဆရာတော် ဦးသဇ္ဇနလင်္ကာရ | ဆရာတော်၏ ထေရုပ္ပတ္တိ အကျဉ်းချုပ် | Sayādaw U Thitzana’s Biography Sayādaw U Thitzana was born in December 1951, in a village about 180 kilometres northwest of Mandalay. He became a novice in 1960 at Kan Oo Monastery in Lhaw-gar village …
Kamala Masters ထေရုပ္ပတ္တိ အကျဉ်း (brief introduction): Kamala Masters is co-founder with Steve Armstrong of the Vipassanā Mettā Foundation and Sanctuary on Maui, and a Core Guiding Teacher of the Insight Meditation Society of Barre, MA. In 1977 she began her Dhamma training in the Mahāsī tradition with the late Anagarika Munindra of India. In 1985, …
Steve Armstrong ထေရုပ္ပတ္တိ အကျဉ်း (brief introduction): Steven Armstrong has studied the dhamma and practiced insight meditation since 1975. He served for many years at the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts as Executive Director, Board member and senior teacher of the annual three month retreat. As a monk in Burma for 5 years, under the guidance of …
Sayādaw U Rajinda ထေရုပ္ပတ္တိ အကျဉ်း (brief introduction): Sayādaw U Rajinda, was born in Shwebo District, Myanmar. He became a novice monk (Samanera) at the age of 10 and then a fully ordained monk (Bhikkhu) of Theravāda Monastic Order at the age of 20. Sayādaw has lived in Singapore for the last 12 years teaching …
Sayādaw U Thondara ထေရုပ္ပတ္တိ အကျဉ်း (brief introduction):
Visu Teoh ထေရုပ္ပတ္တိ အကျဉ်း (brief introduction): Visu Teoh’s Biography Visu Teoh is Malaysian Chinese born in Penang, Malaysia, in 1953. He has been practising meditation since 1982 and was a Buddhist monk for 17 years till he resumed the lay life in 2003. He is married to Barbara, a German national, and together they travel …
