Ashin Yazeinda (Burmese: အရှင်ရာဇိန္ဒ, Pali: Rājinda), better known by his pen name Yawai Nwe (ရဝေနွယ်), is a prominent Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk and writer.[1]
Ashin Yazeinda | |
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အရှင်ရာဇိန္ဒ | |
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| Title | Sayadaw |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 18 June 1969 |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Other names | Yawai Nwe |
| Occupation | Buddhist monk |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| Temple | Dhammayawei Monastery |
| School | Theravada |
| Monastic name | Rājinda ရာဇိန္ဒ |
| Website | www |
Ashin Yazeinda was born on 18 June 1969 in the town of Inma, Thegon Township, Pegu Division to parents U Thein Ni Sein and Daw Kyin Nu.[2] He ordained as a novice (Pali: samanera) in 1979, and again in 1980.[2] He began penning stories for the Flower magazine in 1985.[2]
In 1989, he was fully ordained as a bhikkhu, and studied at Rangoon's Mahavisuddhāruṃ Pali University and Monastery (မဟာဝိသုဒ္ဓါရုံ ပါဠိတက္ကသိုလ် ကျောင်းတိုက်).[2] The following year, he began publishing Dhamma articles in the Myat Mingala journal.[2]
In 2000, the Burmese government conferred him the title of Sāsanadhaja Dhammācariya (သာသနဓဇ ဓမ္မာစရိယဘွဲ့).[2] In January 2003, he published a seminal religious work, Would You Like to Meet Every Existence? (ဘဝတိုင်းဆုံတွေ့ချင်ပါသလား).[2]
He currently resides at the Dhammayawei Monastery (ဓမ္မရဝေကျောင်းတိုက်) in Thingangyungyi ward, Mingaladon Township, Yangon.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ "ဆရာတော် ရဝေနွယ် (အင်းမ) ရဲ့ ၂၀၁၅ နှစ်သစ်ကူး သြဝါဒ". Radio Free Asia (in Burmese). 1 January 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "ကိုယ်တိုင်ရေးရာဇဝင်" (in Burmese). Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ^ သူဇာ (9 April 2014). "သင်္ကြန်မှာ တရားစခန်း ဝင်မယ်ဆိုရင်". ဧရာ၀တီ (in Burmese). Retrieved 21 June 2015.