Ashin Nandamalabhivamsa

Ashin Nanamāldābhivamsa
ဆရာတော် နန္ဒမာလာ ဘိဝံသ
Religion Buddhism
School Theravada
Dharma names Nanamāldābhivamsa
နႏၵမာလာ ဘိ၀ံသ
Personal
Nationality Burmese
Born (1940-03-22) 22 March 1940
Nyaung-bin Village, Singu, Mandalay Division, Burma
Senior posting
Title Ashin
Religious career
Website www.drnandamalabhivamsa.com.mm
In this Burmese name, Ashin is an honorific.

Ashin Nandamāldābhivamsa (Burmese: ဒေါက်တာ နန္ဒမာလာ ဘိဝံသ, commonly known as Ashin Nandamāla) is a Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk.[1] He is rector of Sītagū International Buddhist Academy in Sagaing and, since 2005, also of International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University.[2][3][4][5]

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”.

He completed MA and doctoral degrees at Kelaniya University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.[6]

Posts

Nanamāldābhivamsa is rector of Sītagū International Buddhist Academy in Sagaing and, since the death of Bhaddanta Silanandabhivamsa in 2005, also of International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University in Yangon.[7]

He founded the Dhammavijjālaya Centre for Buddhist Studies of Mahāsubodhayon monastery in Sagaing in 2003.[7]

Awards

In 1996 the national government awarded him the title Aggamaha Gantavacaka Pandita, and in 1999 he received the title Aggamaha Pandita.[6]

Publications

The published works of Nanamālābhivamsa include:

References

  1. ေရႊကူ. "ျမ၀တီ - ျမတ္ပါရမီ လူမႈ ကူညီေရး အသင္း ဒုတိယ အႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ဓမၼပူဇာ သဘင္ တရားနာ ပရိသတ္ ႏွစ္ေသာင္းေက်ာ္ခန္႔ နာယူ". 85.230.
  2. ေကတု. "ျမ၀တီ - ျမတ္ဗုဒၶ ၏ အ ဆံုး အမ အ တိုင္း ေဒါ သ ကို ေမတၲာ ျဖင္႕အႏိုင္ယူ၊ ၂ဝ၁၅ ခုႏွစ္သည္ ေမတၲာမ်ား လႊမ္းၿခံဳသည္႕ ေမတၲာႏွစ္ ျဖစ္မည္". myawady.net.mm.
  3. http://www.buddha.sg/htm/people/nandamalabhivamsa.htm
  4. 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.
  5. "Developing an ATBU proposal for an exchange programme of teaching staff". atbu.org.
  6. 1 2 Ashin Nandamāla, Sayadaw. "Dr. Bhaddanta NandamÈlÈbhivaÑsa (Rector)". Accessed December 2014.
  7. 1 2 3 Nandamalabhivamsa, Ashin. "Biography". Accessed December 2014.
  8. "Internet Archive Search: creator:"Dr. Nandamalabhivamsa"". archive.org.
  9. Nandamalabhivamsa, Ashin. "Rahula". Accessed October 2015.
  10. Nandamalabhivamsa, Ashin. "Vedana". Accessed October 2015.
  11. Nandamalabhivamsa, Ashin. "Bhikkhuni". Accessed October 2015.

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