by Hla Min

Update : July 2025

BARB (Burma Astro Research Bureau)

Founders

• U Myaing
• Dr. Chit Swe
• U Min Wun
• U Kyaw Min (Pituka ပိသုကာ)
• U Myint Sein
• U Aye Win Kyaw
• U Mya Sein
• U Nyan Win
• U Tin Aung

All are GBNF

U Myint Sein

Highlights

• Attended PPBRS
• Matriculated from SPHS in 1964
• Graduated with B.Com (IT) in 1968
• Managed Family Business
• Founding member & Principal of BARB
• Specialization : Medical Astrology; Visiting Professor at တိုင်းရင်းဆေးပညာကျောင်း
• Founder, IDEA Astrology
• Now GBNF

Veda Programs

• Requested me to develop programs for Veda calculations and predictions. Assigned Ko Win Latt and Ko Zaw Tun.
• Ko Win Latt (UCC) developed Win Horo. He later founded a Computer Training School & SysMagic. Currently in Bangkok.

• Ko Zaw Tun (UCC) developed a Prolog program for prediction. He later founded a Computer Training School. Moved to Singapore. Gawpaka at Singapore Chan Myei

Final Years

• I visited U Myint Sein at his house. He showed me the text he had written for the School of Indigenous Medicine, where he was a Visiting Professor. He was fond of Medical Astrology. Several doctors would seek his advice for treating patients.
• (Later) He passed away peacefully in his house while watching TV. He had earlier come back from Okkalapa where he had brunch.

Veda & Me

• Shared my Veda knowledge to selected Computer Science students
• Shared my Computing expertise to selected Veda sayas. Helped BARB sayas & students use programmable calculators and handheld computers.

• Became acquainted with Veda sayas : U Khin Aung Bo, U Than Htay, U Myint Lwin, Bogyi Kyaw Zan Hla …
• Wrote articles (with three pen names) for Jotisha Veda magazine.

• U Myint Sein led discussion groups at selected houses (e.g. U Khin Maung San, Bohmu Thane Myint) over lunch.

Veda Sayas

U Myint Sein

• He was Principal at BARB. He later founded IDEA Astrology.

U Than Htay

• He taught Ganita (ဂဏိတ). He also wrote articles, Lecture Guides & Books. He later co-founded MARB and served as VP. He had health problems. He is now GBNF.

U Myint Lwin

• Taught Phalita ဖလိတ at BARB and MARB
• Vice President, MARB
• Helped compile and publish the Veda Calendar
• Passed away several years back

U Khin Aung Bo

• Taught Thanhita သံဟိတ at BARB and MARB
• President, MARB
• Passed away peacefully while praying on May 13, 2020 at the age of 80.
• Was relatively strong and healthy despite his love of cigarettes

Sad News

#မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဝေဒသုတေသနအဖွဲ့
#ဥက္ကဋ္ဌကြီးဆရာကြီးဦးခင်အောင်ဗိုလ်

ယနေ့ 13-5-2020 (May 13, 2020)
နံနက် 07:05 အချိန်တွင်
မြောက်ဥက္ကလာပဆေးရုံကြီး၌

#ကွယ်လွန် သွားပါကြောင်း

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဝေဒသုတေသနအဖွဲ့ အား
ဝမ်းနည်းစွာ အသိပေးအပ်ပါသည်။

Last Journey

(၁၅.၅.၂၀၂၀) နေ့လည် ၁၂နာရီခွဲ နေအိမ်မှကားများထွက်ခွာပြီး ရေဝေးသုသာန်၌ ၂နာရီ မီး သဂြိုလ်မည်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။

U Aye Win Kyaw

• Graduated with Civil Engineering from RIT in 1970 and joined the Faculty
• Developed programs for Astronomy and Astrology
• Taught Astronomy at BARB and MARB
• Passed away in Pwin Oo Lwin a few years back. Sadly, his son passed away unexpectedly a few days before his demise. It was a Double Tragedy for the family.

MARB (Myanmar Astro Research Bureau)

• Former BARB sayas (U Khin Aung Bo, U Myint Lwin, U Than Htay, U Hla Win, U Kyaw Myint …) founded MARB. U Khin Aung Bo was President. U Myint Lwin & U Than Htay were VP. U Kyaw Myint was Secy. U Hla Win headed the Research Program.

• Other MARB sayas include U Thein Aung, U Soe Thein, Dr. Aung Myin Bo.

U Kyaw Myint (T72)

• Thin Char Luyechun in High School
• Studied at BARB. Taught at BARB and MARB
• Current President of MARB.
  Succeeded U Khin Aung Bo.
• Also Expert on indigenous medicine.
• Youngest of 13 siblings.
• Four are alive and well. Saya Saw was good at writing Yee Zar Sar. He was reprimanded by his aunt for supposedly helping a friend to write Yee Zar Sar to give to his cousin.
  Bagyi Kan is a doctor and Patron of MARB. He translated several Veda texts. U Sein Tun and U Kyaw Myint would pay respect to Saya Saw and Bagyi Kan following the noble tradition.
• U Kyaw Myint wrote a long letter to the parents of a classmate & belle presenting why is an invaluable suitor.

U Hla Win (M73)

• Core Organizer of RIT Saya Pu Zaw Pwes and activities
• Attended DAC
• Studied at BARB. Taught at BARB and MARB.
• Secretary and/or VP of MARB.
• Member of Myanmar Pyeik Ka Dein Ah Phwe.
• He used to send me his car and/or a Veda saya to pick me up to visit the old MARB office.

U Soe Thein & U Thein Aung

• Studied at BARB
• Taught at MARB

Dr. Aung Myin Bo

• Not related to U Khin Aung Bo.
• Studied Veda from distinguished sayas. Helped them (e.g doing research& writing / refining Veda programs).
• Gave me a ride to visit the old and new MARB offices.
  

Updates

• The founding members of BARB are now GBNF.
• Several sayas from BARB and MARB — U Myint Sein, U Myint Lwin, U Khin Aung Bo and U Than Htay — are GBNF.