Ashin Nandamalabhivamsa

Ashin Nandamālābhivaṃsa (Burmese: အရှင် နန္ဒမာလာ ဘိဝံသ), commonly known by his position as Rector Sayadaw (Burmese: ပါမောက္ခချုပ် ဆရာတော်),[1][2] is a Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk[3] who currently serves as the rector of Sitagu International Buddhist Academy, and an associate head (Upaukkaṭṭh) of Shwegyin Nikaya.[4] He previously served as the rector of International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University.[5][6][7][8][9]

In this Burmese name, Ashin is an honorific, not a surname.
Abhidhajamahāraṭṭhaguru

Ashin Nandamālābhivaṃsa
Rector Sayadaw
TitleAshin
Personal
Born (1940-03-22) 22 March 1940
Nyaung-bin Village, Singu, Mandalay Division, Burma
ReligionBuddhism
NationalityBurmese
SchoolTheravada
EducationVipassana Ghandarama Monastery, Maha visuddharama Taik Thit
Dharma namesNandamālābhivaṃsa
နန္ဒမာလာဘိဝံသ
OccupationBuddhist monk
Senior posting
Websitewww.drnandamalabhivamsa.com.mm

Early life and education

He was born on March 22, 1940, in the village of Nyaung-bin, in Singu, Mandalay, to parents San Hla and Khin. He received a grounding in Pali and Buddhist scripture from his brother. He went to the monastic school when he was six and became a novice monk at Sagaing Hills at the age of ten, under the patronage of U Canda (Sankin Sayadaw), head of the Vipassanā monastery. He was given the Dharma name “Nandamāla”.

At the age of thirteen, he passed three levels of Abhidharma at the Pathamabyan examination held in 1953. Three years later, he passed the government Dhammācariya examination with distinction in two subjects, and received the title of Sāsanadhaja sirīpavara dhammācariya.[10]

In 1958 he founded the Mahasubodharum monastery together with his brothers, and served as essence instructor and administrator.[11]

At the age of nineteen, he passed the third class of Sakyasīhasāmaṇe examination with the first grade, and was awarded the title of Sāsanālaṅkāra.[10]

Monkhood career

In 1960 when he was 20, Nandamala the novice was ordained as a monk under Sankin Sayadaw at the Sāsanamañjarī ordination hall of Mahasubodharum monastery.[10]

He passed the Cetiyaṅgaṇa examination (Yangon) and Sakyasīha examination (Mandalay) in 1963 and 1964 respectively. Then he became a Sāsanadhaja Dhammācariya Vinaya Pali specialist.[10]

In 1967, he served as a compiler of Tipitaka dictionary of Pali to Myanmar.

He completed his master's degree in Buddhist studies from Kelaniya University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, with the thesis "The Exposition of True Meaning with Critical Introduction to Text."[12]

In 1996, sayadaw was conferred the title of Aggamahāganthavācakapaṇḍita (senior instructor or lecturer) by the Burmese government. This was followed by receiving the title of Agga Maha Pandita (Pali: Aggamahāpaṇḍita) in 2000.[12]

He got a doctoral degree from the Magadha University of India in 2003, with thesis "Jainism in Buddhist literature."

Since the death of Ashin Silanandabhivamsa in 2005, sayadaw served as the rector of International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University until his retirement on 13 November 2019.[13][11][14][15] Sayadaw also serves as the rector of Sitagu International Buddhist Academy.[16]

In 4 January 2020, the government offered him the highest Pariyatti title of Abhidhajamahāraṭṭhaguru.[17][18]

Publications

The published works of Nandamālābhivamsa include:

  • The Hundred Verses on the Life of the Master (1970)
  • The Biography of the Master (1970)
  • The 90 Years of Life of Daw Malayee (1975)
  • The Life and Literature of Shwehintha Sayadaw (1979)
  • The Exposition of True Meaning (Paramattha dīpanī) with Critical Introduction to the Text (Thesis for the degree of Master of Philosophy)
  • The Hundred Verses on the Life of the Thera (1985)
  • Buddhism and Vegetarianism (1990)
  • The Three Meritorious Actions in Buddhism (1992)
  • Mettā (1994)
  • The Fundamental Abhidhamma (including a chapter on the History of Abhidhamma) (1997)[19]
  • A Study of Jainism according to Buddhist Literature (Thesis for the degree of Ph.D., 2001)
  • The Dhamma Mirror (2004)
  • Patthann Myat Desana (Discourse on Paṭṭhāna) (2004)
  • The Path to Happiness (2010)
  • Eight and One (2013)
  • The Exits of Mind (2013)
  • 'Samatha and Vipassanā (2014)[11]
  • Buddha’s Advice to Rahula (2012)[20]
  • Analytical Study of Vedanā (2013)[21]
  • Bhikkhunī Sāsana in Theravāda Tradition (Mac 2015)[22]

References
  1. "ပါမောက္ခချုပ်ဆရာတော်ကြီး၏သက်တော်၈၀ပြည့် ပတ္တမြားရတုမွေးနေ့ စာစောင် အတွက် စာစောင် ဖြစ်မြောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့ကစာမူများတောင်းခံ". myanmar.gov.mm.
  2. "၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် နှစ်သစ်ကူးတရားအလှူတော်ဓမ္မသဘင် အွန်လိုင်းစနစ်ဖြင့် တိုက်ရိုက်ထုတ်လွှင့်မည်". myanmar.gov.mm.
  3. ရွှေကူ. "မြဝတီ - မြတ်ပါရမီ လူမှု ကူညီရေး အသင်း ဒုတိယ အကြိမ်မြောက် ဓမ္မပူဇာ သဘင် တရားနာ ပရိသတ် နှစ်သောင်းကျော်ခန့် နာယူ". 85.230. Archived from the original on 2015-01-25.
  4. "ပါမောက္ခချုပ်ဆရာတော် တရားပွဲများနှင့် ဓမ္မပညာသင်တန်းများ လာမည့် ဧပြီလမှစ၍ ယာယီရပ်နားမည်". The Myanmar Times. 24 January 2019.
  5. "ပါမောက္ခချုပ်ရာထူး ဓမ္မဒူတဆရာတော် ဒေါက်တာအရှင်ဆေကိန္ဒကို ခန့်အပ်ဖို့ စီစဉ်". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese).
  6. ကေတု. "မြဝတီ - မြတ်ဗုဒ္ဓ ၏ အ ဆုံး အမ အ တိုင်း ဒေါ သ ကို မေတ္တာ ဖြင့်အနိုင်ယူ၊ ၂ဝ၁၅ ခုနှစ်သည် မေတ္တာများ လွှမ်းခြုံသည့် မေတ္တာနှစ် ဖြစ်မည်". myawady.net.mm. Archived from the original on 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2015-01-25.
  7. http://www.buddha.sg/htm/people/nandamalabhivamsa.htm
  8. Discuz! Team and Comsenz UI Team. "31-the Most Ven Nandamalabhivamsa, Rector of SIBA conferring degree to newly graduates. - 上座部佛教大学联合会第二次会议 - 觉悟之路 上座部佛教 Theravada Buddhism - Powered by Discuz!". sutta.org. Archived from the original on 2016-04-24. Retrieved 2015-01-25.
  9. "Developing an ATBU proposal for an exchange programme of teaching staff". atbu.org.
  10. "Theravada teaching mp3 audio by Dr. Nandamala Bhivamsa". www.dhammadownload.com.
  11. Nandamalabhivamsa, Ashin. "Biography". Accessed December 2014.
  12. Ashin Nandamāla, Sayadaw. "Dr. Bhaddanta Nandamālābhivaṃsa (Rector)". Archived from the original on 2014-11-10. Retrieved 2014-11-10. Accessed December 2014.
  13. Nay Myo Win (14 November 2019). "RAD confirms Dr. Nandamalabhivamsa retires as rector of ITBMU". Eleven Media Group.
  14. "ပါချုပ်ဆရာတော် ကိုယ်တိုင် အငြိမ်းစား ယူလိုဟု သာဝန် ဆို". ဧရာဝတီ. 14 November 2019.
  15. "ပါမောက္ခချုပ်ဆရာတော်၏ ရာထူးသက်တမ်း မနက်ဖြန်ပြည့်မည်". DVB. 13 November 2019.
  16. "ပါမောက္ခချုပ်ဆရာတော် အသည်းအကြိတ် ဆေးကုသမှု အတွက် အနားယူတာလို့ သာသနာရေးက ထုတ်ပြန်". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese).
  17. "သာသနာတော်ဆိုင်ရာ ဘွဲ့တံဆိပ်တော်များ ဆက်ကပ်လှူဒါန်း | Ministry Of Information". www.moi.gov.mm.
  18. "၂၀၂၀ ပြည့်နှစ် သာသနာတော်ဆိုင်ရာ ဘွဲ့တံဆိပ်တော်များ ဆက်ကပ်ပူဇော်ပွဲ မဟာမင်္ဂလာအခမ်းအနား ကျင်းပ | Ministry Of Information". www.moi.gov.mm.
  19. "Internet Archive Search: creator:"Dr. Nandamalabhivamsa"". archive.org.
  20. Nandamalabhivamsa, Ashin. "Rahula". Accessed October 2015.
  21. Nandamalabhivamsa, Ashin. "Vedana". Accessed October 2015.
  22. Nandamalabhivamsa, Ashin. "Bhikkhuni". Accessed October 2015.
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