{"id":104,"count":15,"description":"Mah\u0101si Say\u0101daw was born in 1904 in Seikkhun village in Upper Burma. He became a novice at age twelve, and was ordained at the age of twenty with the name Sobhana. Over the course of decades of study, he passed the rigorous series of government examinations in the Therav\u0101da Buddhist texts, gaining the newly introduced Dhamm\u0101cariya (dhamma teacher) degree in 1941.\r\n\r\nIn 1931, U Sobhana took leave from teaching scriptural studies in Moulmein, South Burma, and went to nearby Thaton to practice intensive Vipassana meditation under Mingun Jetawun Say\u0101daw (also rendered Mingun Jetavana Say\u0101daw), also known as U N\u0101rada. This teacher had practiced in the remote Sagaing Hills of Upper Burma, under the guidance of Aletawya Say\u0101daw, a student of the forest meditation master Thelon Say\u0101daw.[citation needed] U Sobh\u0101na first taught Vipassana meditation in his home village in 1938, at a monastery named for its massive drum 'Mah\u0101si'. He became known in the region as Mah\u0101si Say\u0101daw. In 1947, the Prime Minister of Burma, U Nu, invited Mah\u0101si Say\u0101daw to be resident teacher at a newly established meditation center in Yangon, which came to be called the Mah\u0101si S\u0101sana Yeiktha.\r\n\r\nMah\u0101si Say\u0101daw was a questioner and final editor at the Sixth Buddhist Council on May 17, 1954. He helped establish meditation centers all over Burma as well as in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, and by 1972 the centers under his guidance had trained more than 700,000 meditators. In 1979, he travelled to the West, holding retreats at newly founded centers such as the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts, U.S. In addition, meditators came from all over the world to practice at his center in Yangon. When the Mah\u0101si Say\u0101daw died on 14 August 1982 following a massive stroke, thousands of devotees braved the torrential monsoon rains to pay their last respects.","link":"https:\/\/www.nepalidhamma.com\/ne\/sayadaw\/mahasi-sayadaw-u-sobhana\/","name":"Mah\u0101s\u012b Say\u0101daw U Sobhana","slug":"mahasi-sayadaw-u-sobhana","taxonomy":"sayadaw","meta":[],"acf":{"image":{"ID":8367,"id":8367,"title":"220px-Mahasi_Sayadaw","filename":"220px-Mahasi_Sayadaw.jpg","filesize":22200,"url":"https:\/\/www.nepalidhamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220px-Mahasi_Sayadaw.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.nepalidhamma.com\/ne\/220px-mahasi_sayadaw\/","alt":"","author":"3","description":"","caption":"","name":"220px-mahasi_sayadaw","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":0,"date":"2023-01-06 10:04:38","modified":"2023-01-06 10:04:38","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.nepalidhamma.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":220,"height":303,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.nepalidhamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220px-Mahasi_Sayadaw-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/www.nepalidhamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220px-Mahasi_Sayadaw-218x300.jpg","medium-width":218,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.nepalidhamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220px-Mahasi_Sayadaw.jpg","medium_large-width":220,"medium_large-height":303,"large":"https:\/\/www.nepalidhamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220px-Mahasi_Sayadaw.jpg","large-width":220,"large-height":303,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.nepalidhamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220px-Mahasi_Sayadaw.jpg","1536x1536-width":220,"1536x1536-height":303,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.nepalidhamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220px-Mahasi_Sayadaw.jpg","2048x2048-width":220,"2048x2048-height":303,"tenweb_optimizer_mobile":"https:\/\/www.nepalidhamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220px-Mahasi_Sayadaw.jpg","tenweb_optimizer_mobile-width":220,"tenweb_optimizer_mobile-height":303,"tenweb_optimizer_tablet":"https:\/\/www.nepalidhamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220px-Mahasi_Sayadaw.jpg","tenweb_optimizer_tablet-width":220,"tenweb_optimizer_tablet-height":303,"sow-carousel-default":"https:\/\/www.nepalidhamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220px-Mahasi_Sayadaw-220x182.jpg","sow-carousel-default-width":220,"sow-carousel-default-height":182}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalidhamma.com\/ne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sayadaw\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalidhamma.com\/ne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sayadaw"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalidhamma.com\/ne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/sayadaw"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalidhamma.com\/ne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dhamma-books?sayadaw=104"},{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalidhamma.com\/ne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dhamma-audios?sayadaw=104"},{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalidhamma.com\/ne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dhamma-videos?sayadaw=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}