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Theelon Sayadaw (1786 AD -1861 AD) A great meditation master in Old Burma The founder of this Mahāsi Meditation Centre, the most venerable Mahāsi Sayadaw (with title Aggamahāpaṇḍita), was the disciple of Venerable Thaton Mingun Jetawun Sayadaw. The Teachers in this Centre were trained by the close supervision of the Most Venerable Mahāsi Sayadaw U Sobhana Mahathera, who was the most eminent meditation master of this Century. This pagoda is one which enshrined the bones of that highly distinguished Venerable Thee-Lon Sayadawgyi. This Venerable Sayadawgyi’s reputation in the field of meditation (paṭipatti), had spread throughout the country and he was looked upon as an Arahant possessing the attributes of Jhāna and the supernormal knowledge (abhiññā). The prime donor of this famous pagoda was King Mindon (of Burma). The site where the pagoda stood was the place where the mentioned Venerable Sayadawgyi had his solitary retreat. (Biography of the Most Venerable Mahāsi Sayadaw Page 2...

Candā Therī   written by U Thein Zan    Introduction  At 1971 AD, the writer U Thein Zan read some interesting news when he was at Bago. The female hermits held alms-bowls in their hands and went for alms-round. This was an interesting thing in the Buddha’s dispensation. From that time onwards, he started to study the life of the Buddhist women and later collected their stories. Later he published a book written in Burmese called “The Arahant bhikkhunis and women”. In that book, he wrote a story on the life of Candā Therī. This is the translated English version of that story. This translation is group project undertaken by Aggācāra Dhamma Distribution group. Our sincere wish is to spread Dhamma to the whole world by translating worthy books and Dhamma talks into English. Our translated books are distributed freely. We like to express our gratitude to those who join in the translation, editing and contributing to the printing fund. Candā ...

Saddanīti – Introduction There are three volumes in Saddanīti 1. padamālā – explains the inflection – conjugation, declension 2.Dhātumālā- explains roots 3.Suttamālā –explains sandhi, nāma. Saddanīti is more complete and more modernize than other grammar books like Kaccāyana, padarūpasidhi.  Some words that are not explained in these books are explained in the Saddanīti. Each books has 2 volumes, one volume has about 400 pages. So, there are more than 2500 pages. This book is written by Aggavaṃsa. In some records like Sāsāna Laṅkāra said that Agga Paṇḍita had written the books. At that time, there were three persons well-known in the knowledge in the Tipiṭaka. 1. Mahā Aggapaṇḍita, 2) Aggapaṇḍita  3) Aggapaṇḍita. The third one was the nephew to the second one and he was the one that had written the book. The Bagan dynasty started with king Anoratha who lived from 1044AD to 1077AD. After 100 years later, at 1154AD (1697 Buddhist era), this book Saddanīti was written...