Ashin Nandamalabhivamsa

Ashin Nandamālābhivamsa (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 served as rector at International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University from 2005 to 2019.[2][3][4][5]

Ashin Nandamālābhivamsa
ဆရာတော် နန္ဒမာလာ ဘိဝံသ
TitleAshin
Personal
Born (1940-03-22) 22 March 1940
Nyaung-bin Village, Singu, Mandalay Division, Burma
ReligionBuddhism
NationalityBurmese
SchoolTheravada
EducationVipassana Ghandarama Monastery, Maha visuddharama Taik Thit
OccupationBuddhist monk
Senior posting
Websitewww.drnandamalabhivamsa.com.mm
In this Burmese name, Ashin is an honorific, not a surname.

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

Nandamālābhivamsa is rector of Sītagū International Buddhist Academy in Sagaing. After the death of Bhaddanta Silanandabhivamsa in 2005, he became rector of International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University in Yangon and retired in November 2019.[7][8]

He founded the Dhammavijjālaya (Burmese: ဓမ္မဝိဇ္ဇာလယ) Centre for Buddhist Studies of Mahāsubodhayon (Burmese: မဟာသုဗောဓာရုံ) monastery in Sagaing in 2003.[8]

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 Nandamālābhivamsa 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)[9]
  • 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)[8]
  • Buddha’s Advice to Rahula (2012)[10]
  • Analytical Study of Vedanā (2013)[11]
  • Bhikkhunī Sāsana in Theravāda Tradition (Mac 2015)[12]

References
  1. ရွှေကူ. "မြဝတီ - မြတ်ပါရမီ လူမှု ကူညီရေး အသင်း ဒုတိယ အကြိမ်မြောက် ဓမ္မပူဇာ သဘင် တရားနာ ပရိသတ် နှစ်သောင်းကျော်ခန့် နာယူ". 85.230. Archived from the original on 2015-01-25.
  2. ကေတု. "မြဝတီ - မြတ်ဗုဒ္ဓ ၏ အ ဆုံး အမ အ တိုင်း ဒေါ သ ကို မေတ္တာ ဖြင့်အနိုင်ယူ၊ ၂ဝ၁၅ ခုနှစ်သည် မေတ္တာများ လွှမ်းခြုံသည့် မေတ္တာနှစ် ဖြစ်မည်". myawady.net.mm. Archived from the original on 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2015-01-25.
  3. http://www.buddha.sg/htm/people/nandamalabhivamsa.htm
  4. 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. Archived from the original on 2016-04-24. Retrieved 2015-01-25.
  5. "Developing an ATBU proposal for an exchange programme of teaching staff". atbu.org.
  6. Ashin Nandamāla, Sayadaw. "Dr. Bhaddanta Nandamālābhivaṃsa (Rector)". Archived from the original on 2014-11-10. Retrieved 2014-11-10. Accessed December 2014.
  7. Nay Myo Win (14 November 2019). "RAD confirms Dr. Nandamalabhivamsa retires as rector of ITBMU". Eleven Media Group.
  8. Nandamalabhivamsa, Ashin. "Biography". Accessed December 2014.
  9. "Internet Archive Search: creator:"Dr. Nandamalabhivamsa"". archive.org.
  10. Nandamalabhivamsa, Ashin. "Rahula". Accessed October 2015.
  11. Nandamalabhivamsa, Ashin. "Vedana". Accessed October 2015.
  12. Nandamalabhivamsa, Ashin. "Bhikkhuni". Accessed October 2015.
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