Ashin Nandamalabhivamsa
| Ashin Nanamāldābhivamsa ဆရာတော် နန္ဒမာလာ ဘိဝံသ | |
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| Religion | Buddhism |
| School | Theravada |
| Education | Vipassana Ghandarama Monastery, Maha visuddharama Taik Thit |
| Dharma names |
Nanamāldābhivamsa နန္ဒမာလာ ဘိဝံသ |
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| Nationality | Burmese |
| Born |
22 March 1940 Nyaung-bin Village, Singu, Mandalay Division, Burma |
| Senior posting | |
| Title | Ashin |
| Religious career | |
| Website |
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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:
- 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)[8]
- 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)[7]
- Buddha’s Advice to Rahula (2012)[9]
- Analytical Study of Vedanā (2013)[10]
- Bhikkhunī Sāsana in Theravāda Tradition (Mac 2015)[11]
References
- ↑ ရွှေကူ. "မြဝတီ - မြတ်ပါရမီ လူမှု ကူညီရေး အသင်း ဒုတိယ အကြိမ်မြောက် ဓမ္မပူဇာ သဘင် တရားနာ ပရိသတ် နှစ်သောင်းကျော်ခန့် နာယူ". 85.230.
- ↑ ကေတု. "မြဝတီ - မြတ်ဗုဒ္ဓ ၏ အ ဆုံး အမ အ တိုင်း ဒေါ သ ကို မေတ္တာ ဖြင့်အနိုင်ယူ၊ ၂ဝ၁၅ ခုနှစ်သည် မေတ္တာများ လွှမ်းခြုံသည့် မေတ္တာနှစ် ဖြစ်မည်". myawady.net.mm.
- ↑ http://www.buddha.sg/htm/people/nandamalabhivamsa.htm
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Developing an ATBU proposal for an exchange programme of teaching staff". atbu.org.
- 1 2 Ashin Nandamāla, Sayadaw. "Dr. Bhaddanta Nandamālābhivaṃsa (Rector)". Accessed December 2014.
- 1 2 3 Nandamalabhivamsa, Ashin. "Biography". Accessed December 2014.
- ↑ "Internet Archive Search: creator:"Dr. Nandamalabhivamsa"". archive.org.
- ↑ Nandamalabhivamsa, Ashin. "Rahula". Accessed October 2015.
- ↑ Nandamalabhivamsa, Ashin. "Vedana". Accessed October 2015.
- ↑ Nandamalabhivamsa, Ashin. "Bhikkhuni". Accessed October 2015.