List of Sāsana Azani recipients
The Burmese government recognizes Buddhist monks who have successfully passed the Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinations as "Sāsana Azani" (သာသနာ့အာဇာနည်), from Pali Sāsanājāneyya (lit. 'Noble Hero of the Buddhist doctrine').[1] Since the examination's initial inception in 1948, only 15 monks have been recognized as "Sāsana Azani" as of 2020[update].[2][3] Sasana Azani monks are bestowed the following titles: Tipiṭakadhara (Bearer of the "Spoken Tipitaka") and Tipiṭakakovida (Bearer of the "Written Tipitaka").
As of 2020[update], monks recognized as "Sāsana Azani" include:
| Common title | Monastic name | Name in Burmese | Location of study | City | Pass year (CE) | Pass year (ME) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mingun Sayadaw | Vicittasārabhivaṃsa | ဘဒ္ဒန္တဝိစိတ္တသာရဘိဝံသ | Mingun Dhammanāda Monastery | Sagaing | 1953 | 1315 |
| Pakokku Sayadaw | Neminda | ဘဒ္ဒန္တနေမိန္ဒ | Mahāvisutārāma Dhamma Vimāna Monastery | Mawlamyaing | 1959 | 1321 |
| Pyay Sayadaw | Kosalla | ဘဒ္ဒန္တကောသလ္လ | Pañcanikāya Monastery | Yangon | 1963 | 1325 |
| Mahāgandhayon Sayadaw | Sumaṅgalālaṅkāra | ဘဒ္ဒန္တသုမင်္ဂလာလင်္ကာရ | Tipiṭaka Mahāgandhārāma Monastery | Mayangon Township, Yangon | 1973 | 1335 |
| Yaw Sayadaw | Sirindābhivaṃsa | ဘဒ္ဒန္တသိရိန္ဒာဘိဝံသ | Mahāvisuddhārāma Shwegyin Monastery | Bahan Township, Yangon | 1984 | 1346 |
| Yesagyo Sayadaw | Vāyāmindābhivaṃsa | ဘဒ္ဒန္တဝါယာမိန္ဒာဘိဝံသ | Tipiṭaka Mahāgantavaṃsa Nikāya Monastery | East Dagon Township, Yangon | 1995 | 1356 |
| Mawgyun Sayadaw | Sīlakkhandhābhivaṃsa | ဘဒ္ဒန္တသီလက္ခန္ဓာဘိဝံသ | Three Piṭakas Nikāya Monastery | South Dagon Township, Yangon | 1999 | 1361 |
| Myinmu Sayadaw | Vaṃsapālāsaṅkāra | ဘဒ္ဒန္တဝံသပါလာသင်္ကာရ | Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery | Sagaing | 1999 | 1361 |
| Myingyan Sayadaw | Gandhamālaṅkāra | ဘဒ္ဒန္တဂန္ဓမာလင်္ကာရ | Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery | Sagaing | 2000 | 1362 |
| Sunlun Sayadaw | Sundara | ဘဒ္ဒန္တသုန္ဒရ | Sunlun Guvipassanā Monastery | Thingangyun Township, Yangon | 2004 | 1365 |
| Rammāvatī Sayadaw | Indapāla | ဘဒ္ဒန္တဣန္ဒပါလ | Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery | Sagaing | 2004 | 1365 |
| Sagaing Sayadaw | Abhijātābhivaṃsa | ဘဒ္ဒန္တအဘိဇာတာဘိဝံသ | Mahāsubodhārāsma Monastery | Sagaing | 2010 | 1371 |
| Butalin Sayadaw | Indacariya | ဘဒ္ဒန္တဣန္ဒစရိယ | Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery | Sagaing | 2012 | 1373 |
| Kambhoja Sayadaw | Viriyānanda | ဘဒ္ဒန္တဝိရိယာနန္ဒ | Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery | Dagon Township, Yangon | 2017 | 1378 |
| Kyaukpadaung Sayadaw | Paññāvaṃsābhivaṃsa | ဘဒ္ဒန္တပညာဝံသာဘိဝံသ | Tipiṭaka Mahāgantavaṃsa Nikāya Monastery | East Dagon Township, Yangon | 2020 | 1381 |
See also[edit]
- Agga Maha Pandita
- Burmese Buddhist titles
- Monastic examinations
- Monastic schools in Myanmar
- Pāli Canon
- Pariyatti
- Thathanabaing of Burma
- Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinations
References[edit]
- ^ Thar, Hein. "The gruelling tests of a monk's knowledge". Frontier Myanmar. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
- ^ "၇၂ ကြိမ်မြောက် တိပိဋကဓရ တိပိဋကကောဝိဒ ရွေးချယ်ရေးစာမေးပွဲတွင် ၁၅ ပါးမြောက် တိပိဋကဓရ၊ တိပိဋကကောဝိဒ သာသနာ့အာဇာနည်အရှင်မြတ် (၁)ပါးပေါ်ထွန်းလာခြင်း". Department of Religious Affairs (in Burmese). 2020-01-29. Retrieved 2020-05-16.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "တိပိဋကဓရ၊ တိပိဋကကောဝိဒ စာမေးပွဲအောင်မြင်တော်မူကြသည့် သာသနာ့အာဇာနည် အရှင်သူမြတ် ၉၅ ပါးတို့အား အောင်လက်မှတ်ဘွဲ့တံဆိပ်တော် ဆက်ကပ်လှူဒါန်း". Ministry of Information (in Burmese). 2019-05-21. Retrieved 2020-05-16.