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 THE SAYADAWS

 

The Late Mahasi Sayadaw 1904-1982





Sayadaw U Pandita-bhivamsa 1921-

Sayadaw U Pandita is one of the foremost living masters of Vipassana meditation. He was originally trained in the Burmese Theravāda Buddhist tradition. A successor to the late Mahāsi Sayādaw, he has taught many of the Western teachers and students of the Mahāsi style of Vipassana meditation. He is the abbot of Panditārāma Meditation Center in Yangon, Myanmar.

He is the ovadacariya sayadaw (chief abbot) of all Panditarama centers in Myanmar and abroad.

 

 QUOTE
'Happiness in life is like honey on a sharp razor blade. It comes at a price which often is too much to pay. Therefore we must endeavour to seek an alternative route free from desire. It is such desire that leads us to suffering'





Sayadaw U Pannasami

Venerable Pannasami joined the Centre on May 2005 as a senior resident monk. Graduated from Mandalay Sasana University and trained at the Pandita Rama ( Shwe Taung Gon Sasana Yeiktha ) in Yangon, Myanmar. He had practiced meditation under the Shwe Taung Gon Sayadawgyi U Pandita-bhivamsa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sayadaw U Pannadipa (Beelin Sayadaw)
Sayadaw U Pannadipa is a Nayaka Sayadaw (considered the highest and most respected level of a qualified teacher, one level below Ovadacariya Sayadaw) and very experienced in teaching western yogis. Sayadaw U Pannadipa lived and taught in England for a number of years and is currently the resident Sayadaw at Tathagata Meditation Center in San Jose, California.

 

Sayadaw U Pannathami
Sayadaw U Pannathami was born in Myanmar in 1948. He received higher ordination at the age of twenty. He graduated with Sasanadhaja Dhammacariya and in his early years, Sayadaw had practiced meditation under illustrious masters, notably the late Most Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw as well as Sayadaw U Pandita.
Sayadaw has many years of experience guiding meditators, easterners and westerners alike, particularly in the practice of Insight (Vipassana) Meditation. He had carried the torch of Dhamma to many countries: Malaysia , Singapore , Australia , Canada , USA, UK .
Sayadaw is the abbot of Panditarama Sydney Meditation Center .

 

Sayadaw U Nanujjota-bhivamsa

Venerable Nanujjota-bhivamsa joined the Centre on 26th November 1998 to June 2009, as meditation teacher (Kammathana Cariya). He is currently the resident Sayadaw at Shwe Taung Gon Sasana Yeiktha in Yangon. He is a Nayaka Sayadaw at the Pandita Rama ( Shwe Taung Gon Sasana Yeiktha ) in Yangon, Myanmar. He trained under the famous Sayadaw U Jannaka-bhivamsa of Maha Gandha Yon Monastery at Amarapura, the Shwe Taung Gon Sayadaw U Pandita-bhivamsa and the late Mahasi Sayadaw (Satipatthana Vipassana) .