Ledi Sayadaw

Ledi Sayadaw U Ñanadhaja ( Burmese: လယ်တီဆရာတော် ဦး ဉာဏ ဓ ဇ, [ Ledi Sayadaw: " The great scholar from Ledi "]; born December 1, 1846 in Tabayin, † June 27, 1923 in Pyinmana ) was a Buddhist monk in the Theravada tradition and a influential Buddhist teachers of his time.

Overview

He was proficient at a young age in theory and practice and therefore was soon revered as a scholar and saint. He has written several books on the Buddhist teachings in Burmese language, which were understandable to the layman. He had revived the doctrine and widespread on the state of the monks and nuns out into society. He laid special emphasis on explaining the empirical, ie, the experiential aspect of the Buddhist doctrine and make it available.

Life

Ledi Sayadaw learned the technique of meditation ( " Ledi " ) Vipassana ( insight meditation one that places special emphasis on body sensations) in the caves of the Sagaing Hills of Burma, where she was still taught. After he dominated them, he began to pass them on to others. He founded this monastery in the village Ledi (hence its name), near the town of Monywa. There meditated and taught most of the time. His main disciple was there the farmer Thet Gyi, with a number of lay teachers began, which continues to the present day, including through Ba Khin and his disciple SN Goenka. Previously, only monks and nuns were taught in the art generally. Sometimes Ledi Sayadaw traveled throughout Myanmar.

Ledi Sayadaw in 1885 wrote the Nwa myitta -sa ( နွား မေတ္တာစာ ), a prosaic teaching letter in which he used as food for the waiver of beef. The animals were as load and working animals for the Burmese farmers and threatened too valuable by the consumption of meat from extinction. Further, the waiver is also ecologically sensible. Later he initiated appropriate meat boycotts and inspired in his time ongoing colonial era Burma's an entire generation of independence activists in the country to adopt this attitude.

Works

Among his major works is in addition to his writings on the Buddhist theory (such as the Manual of Ultimate Truth and The Manuals of Dhamma ) a book on the grammar of the Pali, which open up the language in which the Buddhist original texts were written, the Burmese reader should help. Several of his writings are published today particularly in the English language about by the Buddhist Publication Society and the Vipassana Research Institute.