U Tin Shwe (EP66)

• He graduated with B.E. (Electrical Power) in 1966 and joined the Electrical Engineering Department at RIT (Rangoon Institute of Technology).
• He later taught at Assumption University (formerly known as ABAC) in Bangkok, Thailand.
• He wrote about his final year B.E. (Bachelor of Engineering) experience in an article.
  It was published in the Commemorative Issue of “Swel Daw Yeik Sar Saung” for SPZP-2010 (Saya Pu Zwe Pwe in Singapore).
• He became a monk after retirement.
  He managed the Sangha Library.
• Sadly, he passed away.
  He is GBNF (Gone But Not Forgotten)

Health Care

• His former students donated for Saya’s health care.

A Poem in his memory

• Saya U Moe Aung (Tekkatho Moe War) wrote a Kabyar “To the Shwe Duo” lamenting the loss of Saya U Tin Shwe and Saya U Hla Shwe.
• The two sayas with “Shwe” in their names passed away a few months apart.
• I translated the Kabyar.

“ရွှေ နှစ် ရွှေ သို့ “

ရွှေနှစ်ရွှေ…..

ဝေတော့လည်း တူ

ကြွေတော့လည်း အတူတူ

ငြူစူခြင်း ကင်း

မျှဉ်းမျှဉ်း အသက်ရှူ

စိုက်ထူမှတ်တိုင်

မယိမ်းယိုင်ခဲ့…..

မနိုင်ဝန် ပိ

အလှည့်သင့်လာ

သောအခါ မှာ

ခန္ဓာအမွေ

ကြွေသာ ကြွေလည်း

မသေ ဝိညာဉ် ဝဲပျံနေသေးတကား ….။ ။

( ကိုတင်ရွှေ- လျှပ်စစ်စွမ်းအား နှင့် ကိုလှရွှေ- ချည်မျှင် သို့)

တက္ကသိုလ် မိုးဝါ

(၂၆ ဇန္နဝါရီ ၂ဝ၁၅ – ည ၉:၅၅ နာရီ)

To the SHWE Duo

Poem by Tekkatho Moe War
Translated by Hla Min

SHWE duo
Blossom in unison
Disappear together
Free from complaint
Even with thin breath
Showed mark [of courage and wisdom]
Never ever wavered …
Pressed by burden
At the awaited turn [of journey’s end]
Body — inheritance [from previous lives]
Succumbs [to failing health]
Yet, “Wei-nyin” is fresh, alive and hovering.