Webu sayadaw biography books

U Sayadaw was a Theravada Buddhist monk, and vipassanā master, best known for giving all importance to diligent practice, rather than scholastic.

Book overview Contains eight full discourses by one of the greatest Burmese meditation masters of this century, as well as shorter talks and a page account.

U Sayādaw () was one of the most esteemed Burmese Theravāda Buddhist monks of recent times.

The u Sayadaw was born on the sixth day of the waxing moon of Tabaung of the Burmese year (17 February ) in Ingyinbin, a small village near Sho.

U Sayadaw was a Theravada Buddhist monk, and vipassanā master, best known for giving all importance to diligent practice, rather than scholastic achievement.

U Sayādaw () was one of the most esteemed Burmese Theravāda Buddhist monks of recent times..

Webu Sayadaw

Burmese Buddhist monk (1896–1977)

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

Webu Sayadaw (Burmese: ဝေဘူ ဆရာတော်, pronounced[wèbùsʰəjàdɔ̀]; 17 February 1896 – 26 June 1977) was a TheravadaBuddhistmonk, and vipassanā master, best known for giving all importance to diligent practice, rather than scholastic achievement.^[1]

Early life

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Webu Sayadaw was born to Daw Kyin Nu and U Lu Pe in 1896 in British Burma near Khin U township in modern-day Sagaing Division. He underwent the usual monk's training in the Pāli scriptures from the age of nine, when he became a novice, until he was twenty-seven.

His monastic name was Kumārakassapa.

U Sayadaw Biography: The Way to Ultimate Calm (a talk by Patrick Given Wilson).

Monk and teacher

In 1923 (seven years after his ordination), he left the monastery and spent four years in solitude. He practiced (and later taught) the technique of Ānāpānasati (awareness of the in-breath and out-breath).

He said that by working with this practice to a very deep