Update : October 22, 2021

Background

• Burma wanted to host the Sixth Buddhist Council to celebrate 2500 years of Buddha Sasana.
• A Burmese Delegation (including Sayadaws) visited neighboring Theravada countries to seek advice and to solicit participation in the Council.
• The Theravada Sayadaws expressed the need for a Tipitaka Sayadaw.

Burma invited interested Sayadawa to sit for Oral and Written Examinations for

• Vinaya
  Monastic Rules of Conduct
• Sutta
  Discourses
• Abhidhamma
  Ultimate Reality
  The examination consists of two Parts

Mingun Tipitaka Sayadaw

• Mingun Sayadaw U Vicittacara served as an Examiner for the first Tipitaka examination.
• One Sayadaw passed the Vinaya, but said that he would not take further examinations to concentrate on his Practice of the Dhamma.
• Sir U Thwin requested Mingun Sayadaw to take the Tipitaka examination as preparation for the Sixth Buddhist Council.
• Mingun Sayadaw passed with Distinction in all subjects, and was awarded “Tipitakadara Bandakarika”.
• He served as the Chief Reciter / Respondent for the Sixth Buddhist Council held at Kaba Aye, Rangoon from 1954 – 56.
  Mahasi Sayadaw served as the Chief Questioner.
• Mingun Sayadaw’s Memory Prowess is recorded in the Guiness Book of World Records in the 1950s.
  
• Mingun Sayadaw donated back the Garawa Money and Gifts to the needy monasteries.
• He later sponsored aspiring monks who had finished Dhammacariya to take the Tipitika examination.