Abhijatabhivamsa

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

Ashin
Abhijātābhivaṃsa
အဘိဇာတာဘိဝံသ
TitleTipiṭakadhara Dhammabhaṇḍhāgārika (2016)
Personal life
Born(1968-09-29)29 September 1968
Hsinnin Village, Wetlet Township, Sagaing Division, Burma
Died7 February 2022(2022-02-07) (aged 53)
Bangkok, Thailand
Cause of deathLeukemia
Parents
  • Tin Ya (father)
  • Nyunt Khin (mother)
Education
  • Tipiṭakadhara (2007)
  • Tipiṭakakovida (2010)
Religious life
ReligionBuddhism
SchoolTheravada
SectShwekyin Nikāya
Dharma namesAbhijāta
Ordination4 January 1988
Senior posting
Teacher

Ashin Abhijātābhivaṃsa (Burmese: အရှင်အဘိဇာတာဘိဝံသ, pronounced [əʃɪ̀ɰ̃ ʔəbḭzàtàbḭwʊ̀ɰ̃θa̰]; 29 September 1968 – 7 February 2022), also known as Sagaing Tipiṭaka Sayadaw (Burmese: စစ်ကိုင်းတိပိဋကဆရာတော်, pronounced [zəɡáɪɰ̃ tḭpḭda̰ka̰ sʰəjàdɔ̀]), was a Burmese Buddhist monk. He was chief abbot of Saddhamma Mānitāyon Monastery in Yangon and abbot of Saddhamma Jotaka Subodhāyon Monastery in Monywa.[1] Being awarded the titles of Tipiṭakadhara and Tipiṭakakovida in 2007[2] and 2010 respectively,[3] Ashin was the 12th recipient of the title of Tipiṭakadhara Dhammabhaṇḍāgārika.[4]

Early life and education

Abhijātābhivaṃsa, the third of seven siblings, was born on 29 September 1968 (8th waxing day of Thadingyut, 1330 M.E.) in Hsinnin Village, Wetlet Township, to Tin Ya and Nyunt Khin.[5] He was ordained as a novice on 29 November 1979 (11th waxing day of Nadaw, 1341 ME), under the presiding sayadaw of Zabumingala Shweyattha Kyaung, and sent to Mahā Subodhāyon Monastery in Sagaing on 14 December.[6]: 433  Ashin received the titles of Sāsanālaṅkāra Thamanegyaw and Sāsanadhaja Dhammācariya since he was a novice.[6]: 434 

Monkhood career

On 4 January 1988 (1st waning day of Pyatho, 1349 ME), Ashin was ordained as a monk under the patronage of Ashin Nārada, chief abbot of Mahā Subodhāyon.[6]: 434 

Ashin passed all five-level 8026 recitation contents for the Tipiṭakadhara Tipiṭakakovida Selection Examinations, in which he had to show his memory of Tipiṭaka by reciting the Canon without being prompted more than five times in a day,[7] in 2007 and was awarded the title of Tipiṭakadhara (lit. 'Expert in Tipitaka').[2] After completing all five levels of ideology written exam, he became the holder of the title of Tipiṭakakovida (lit. 'One who is skillful at Tipitaka'), in 2010.[3] In 2016, Ashin was offered the title of Tipiṭakadhara Dhammabhaṇḍāgārika by the Burmese government,[8][9] and was thereafter known as its 12th recipient in history.[6]: 434–5  In 2012, Ashin was appointed by Ashin Nandamālābhivaṃsa as presiding abbot of Saddhamma Jotaka Subodhāyon Monastery, a monastery, in Monywa, under the governance of Mahā Subodhāyon.[6]: 459 

Ashin died of leukemia at Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok, on 7 February 2022, at the age of 53.[5][1] During his years of monkhood, Ashin won a total of 47 achievements, including 10 Dhammācariya and 3 Pali Pāragū degrees.[5]

References

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  2. ^ a b "နိုင်ငံတော် အေးချမ်းသာယာရေးနှင့် ဖွံဖြိုးရေးကောင်စီ ဒုတိယဥက္ကဋ္ဌ ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီးမောင်အေးနှင့် ဇနီး ဒေါ်မြင့်မြင့်စန်း (၅၉) ကြိမ်မြောက် တိပိဋကဓရ တိပိဋကကောဝိဒ ချီးကျူးပူဇော်ပွဲ မဟာမင်္ဂလာအခမ်းအနားသို တက်ရောက်ကြည်ညို" [Titles, certificates conferred on winners of 59th Tipitakadhara Tipitaka Kovida Selection Exam; Vice chair of the SPDC and his wife attended]. The Mirror. 27 May 2007. Retrieved 8 February 2022 – via Online Burma/Myanmar Library.
  3. ^ a b "နိုင်ငံတော် အေးချမ်းသာယာရေးနှင့် ဖွံဖြိုးရေးကောင်စီ ဒုတိယဥက္ကဋ္ဌ ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီးမောင်အေးနှင့် ဇနီး ဒေါ်မြင့်မြင့်စန်း (၆၂) ကြိမ်မြောက် တိပိဋကဓရ တိပိဋကကောဝိဒ ချီးကျူးပူဇော်ပွဲ မဟာမင်္ဂလာအခမ်းအနားသို တက်ရောက်ကြည်ညို၊ လှူဖွယ်ပစ္စည်းများ ဆက်ကပ်လောင်းလှူ" [Titles, certificates conferred on winners of 62nd Tipitakadhara Tipitaka Kovida Selection Exam; Vice chair of the SPDC and his wife attended]. The Mirror. 9 May 2010. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
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  8. ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတက သာသနာတော်ဆိုင်ရာ ဘွဲတံဆိပ်တော်များ ဆက်ကပ်လှူဒါန်းအပ်နှင်း" [President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar offered religious titles]. The Mirror. 4 January 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  9. ^ "သာသနာတော်ဆိုင်ရာ ဘွဲတံဆိပ်တော်များ ဆက်ကပ်ပူဇော်ပွဲနှင့် ဆွမ်းဆန်စိမ်းလောင်းလှူပွဲ ကျင်းပ". The Mirror. 24 March 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2022.