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VENERABLE BEELIN SAYADAW

Venerable Beelin Sayadaw has served as our Dhamma Adviser and Chief Meditation Teacher since 2005.
Also known as Sayadaw U Pannadipa, Ven. Beelin Sayadaw was born on March 16, 1933 in the Beelin township in lower Myanmar. He was ordained at the age of twelve. He culminated his early academic work at Hitikaryi Buddhist Studies School in Thaton and passed the Tipitaka study with honors there. He then became a Dhamma teacher. His postgraduate work was completed in Yangon and in Mandalay.

In 1967 he went to Mahasi Yeiktha in Yangon and practiced intensive Vipassana meditation under Sayadaws U Pandita, U Janaka, and U Sanwara. The following year he was sent to Gyopintha Sasana Yeiktha near Prome as a meditation teacher, where he taught for seventeen years.

In 1985 he was recognized as Nayaka Kammatthana Cariya (Senior Meditation Teacher) by Venerable U Panditabhivamsa and was asked to teach at Mahasi Center in Yangon, which he did for six years. Sayadaw has also traveled extensively to other parts of the world including Nepal, Malaysia, Singapore and Austrlia.

Sayadaw next served at Mahasi Meditation Center near Wigan in the U.K. when the community members requested a Sayadaw skilled in patipatti (practice of meditation) and pariyatti (study of scriptures).

He was next invited to serve at Tathagata Meditation Center (TMC) in San Jose, California, in December 1999. He is currently the Abbot of TMC. In addition, he also takes time to teach Vipassana meditation in the Bay Area, Southern California, and Taiwan.

 

 

 
 
 

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