Sīlānanda
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U Sīlānanda () was a Burmese Buddhist monk and Vipassana meditation scholar. He was also the first rector of the International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Myanmar
- Place of birth
- Mandalay
- Place of death
- Half Moon Bay
- Occupation
- Buddhist monk
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Noble title
- Sayadaw
- Religious order
- Shwegyin Nikaya
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- date of death
- 2005-08-13
- date of birth
- 1927-12-16
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- Brief biography
- Family
- Honours
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- Myanmar
- English
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U Sīlānanda () was a Burmese Buddhist monk and Vipassana meditation scholar. He was also the first rector of the International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University.
==Brief biography== Born in Mandalay, he first ordained as a novice monk (samanera) on 14 April 1943 at the age of 16, during Thingyan celebrations. He was ordained under Sayadaw U Pannavata at the Mahavijjodaya Chaung Monastery on the Sagaing Hills and given the Dhamma name Sīlānanda. He attended the Kelly High School, an American Baptist mission school, before entering the monkhood.
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