U Pandita
| Panditarama Sayadaw ပဏ္ဍိတာရာမ ဆရာတော် |
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| Religion | Buddhism |
| School | Theravada |
| Lineage | Mahasi |
| Education | Dhammācariya (1952) |
| Dharma names | Paṇḍitā ပဏ္ဍိတ |
| Personal | |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Born |
28 July 1921 Insein, Pegu Province, British Burma |
| Died | April 16, 2016 (aged 94) Bangkok, Thailand |
| Senior posting | |
| Based in | Yangon, Myanmar |
| Title | Sayadaw |
| Religious career | |
| Teacher | Mahasi Sayadaw |
| Website | www |
Sayadaw U Pandita (Burmese: ဆရာတော် ဦးပဏ္ဍိတ, pronounced: [sʰəjàdɔ̀ ʔú pàɴdḭta̰]; also Ovādacariya Sayādaw U Paṇḍitābhivaṃsa; 28 July 1921 – 16 April 2016) was one of the foremost masters of Vipassanā. He trained in the Theravada Buddhist tradition of Myanmar. A successor to the late Mahāsi Sayādaw, he has taught many of the Western teachers and students of the Mahāsi style of Vipassanā meditation. He was the abbot of Paṇḍitārāma Meditation Center in Yangon, Myanmar.
U Pandita was born in 1921 in Insein in greater Rangoon (now Yangon) during British colonial rule. He became a novice at age twelve, and ordained at age twenty. After decades of study, he passed the rigorous series of government examinations in the Theravāda Buddhist texts, gaining the Dhammācariya (dhamma teacher) degree in 1952.
U Pandita began practicing Vipassana under the guidance of Mahāsi Sayādaw beginning in 1950. In 1955, he left his position as a teacher of scriptural studies to become a meditation teacher at the Mahāsi Meditation Center.
Soon after Mahasi Sayādaw died in 1982, U Pandita became the guiding teacher (Ovādacariya) of the Mahasi Meditation Center. In 1991, he left that position, founding Paṇḍitārāma Meditation Center in Yangon. There are now Paṇḍitārāma branch centers in Myanmar, Nepal, Australia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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