He founded BMRI (Burma Medical Research Institute) and served as its inaugural Director. BMRI was later known as DMR (Directorate of Medical Research).
His successors include Dr. Aung Than Ba Tu, Dr. U Khin Maung Tun, and Dr. Daw May May Yee.
Saya passed away in Australia. Dr. Thane Oke Kyaw Myint posted about his Last Journey.
Saya and Daw Khin Thet Htar compiled and published Two Editions of “Who’s Who in Health & Medicine (Teaching, Practice & Research) in Burma?”
Dr. Nyunt Wai (Victor) received the book from Daw Khin Thet Htar.He is thankful for the monumental book by Saya’s Thet Htar. *
Daw Aye Aye Khin posted some pages from the book (including an article by her late mother Dr. Daw Khin Kyi Nyunt).
Dr. Aung Than Ba Tu requested UCC to give talks at BMRI. I gave a couple of lectures.
Dr. U Khin Maung Tin served as Medical Superintendent of the RU (Rangoon University) Hospital.
Dr. Daw May May Yee served as Professor of Physiology at IM(2). She was a Staff Member at the Inlay Khaung Daing Luyechun Camp in the Summer of 1965.
Dr. Nyunt Wai posted a photo of the then young Medical Researchers.
Dr. Thein Toe (GBNF), Dr. Khin Kyi Nyunt (GBNF), Dr. Khin Maung U (SPHS63), Dr. Paing Soe (SPHS65), Dr. Kyaw Min (SPHS65) are some alumni of BMRI/DMR.
He matriculated from SPHS in 1960. He missed the top five positions by a mark each. The Brothers were disappointed even though SPHS won many Collegiate Scholarship awards.
He graduated from IM(1) in 1967.
He worked for Rangoon Children’s Hospital and UNICEF in Rangoon before taking UN assignments overseas.
He is retired in Australia.
He is a founder of the Alumni of the Myanmar Institute of Medicine. He has written about the sayas and sayamas.
He has also written about his father U Kyaw Myint, his Bagyi U Tin Tut and his Ba Dwes U Myint Thein and Dr. Htin Aung.
Ma Cherry (Dr. Khin Kyi Nyunt) is an expert in nutrition and cooking.
Peter appreciates his mother’s hobby and the birthday parties.
Peter shared recipes that he learned from his relatives (including my father, aunts and a grand aunt) in his Facebook pages.
Peter 1
He complained to his grand mother and his aunt (Ma Cho) that his younger sister Aye Aye Khin would call him “Peter” and not “Ko Ko”. It took some time before Aye Aye learned to call Peter “Ko Ko”.
Ye Myint (Maung Maung) would enter U Tin U’s family as the youngest child.
Peter 2Peter 3Peter 4
Peter would have some younger cousins including Tin Tin Hlaing and Thar Hlaing.
In 1981, Cho Cho Hlaing studied for Diploma in German. A requirement was to submit a thesis. She chose to describe “The cultural background of preparing and serving of Burmese Food“.
The thesis comprised of 8 chapters. The first chapter described Dana, such as offering (Soon Laung De) to a row of Sanghas (monks), and Soon Kyway at home.
For each chapter Peter (Khin Tun) did a wonderful drawing. There were altogether ten drawings which clearly express the text, “A Picture is Worth A Thoughtful Words”.
Cho Cho Hlaing gained Credit in the Final Exam.
The Professor was very impressed with Peter’s drawings.
Cho Cho Hlaings’s Thesis for Diploma in German
Offering of Ah Yone Soon in the village
Food offered to monks at dusk by the villagers
Drawing 1
Preparing for Soon Kway in the village
Drawing 2
Soon Kyway
Drawing 3
Rice / Paddy fields
Drawing 4
A hut in the Rice / Paddy field
Drawing 5
The boys at the monastery having meal on Daunglan
Drawing 6
Staple food from different parts of Burma
Drawing 7
Burmese Htamin Waing
Drawing (missing)
What shall I eat?
As Myanmar is located between two gastronomical countries (China and India) the boy was thinking and scratching his head thinking what he should eat.
Drawing 8
Three specialties that are described in detail in the thesis
La Phet (Pickled Tea Leaves),
Htamane (Sticky Rice)
and Thingyan Htamin (Specially prepared for consuming during the Thingyan Water Festival).
Drawing 9
Note :
One drawing is missing. Hope Cho Cho Hlaing has the original or copy.
Mahā Calendar Year 67 (623 BC) – Full Moon Day of Waso (Thursday): Conception took place.
Mahā Calendar Year 68 (624 BC) – Full Moon Day of Kason (Vesākhā) (Friday): Born in Lumbini Park (now known as Padaria in modern Nepal. Name as Buddha: Gotama Name as Prince: Prince Siddattha Mother: Mahā Māyā Devi Father: King Suddhodana Mahārājā City: Kāpilavatthu (now in India) Royal Bride: Princess Yasodharā Devi Son: Prince Rāhula
Mahā Calendar Year 97 (595 BC) – Full Moon Day of Waso (Monday): Renounced worldly life, became an ascetic to seek enlightenment.
Mahā Calendar Year 103 (589 BC – Full Moon Day of Kason (Vesākhā) (Wednesday): Attained enlightenment, became a Buddha. (Time: At dawn on the first Waxing Day of Kason (Vesākhā))
Mahā Calendar Year 104 (589 BC) – Full Moon Day of Waso (Saturday): Expounded Dhammacakkapavatthana Sutta
Mahā Calendar Year 148 (544 BC) – Full Moon Day of Kason (Tuesday): In the Sāla Grove in the City of Kusināra in Māllas (modern Kasia in the eastern part of Nepal), Buddha passed into Nibbānna.)
Mahā Calendar Year 148 (544 BC) – 12th Waxing Day of Kason (Vesākhā) (Sunday): The Buddha’s remains burned on their own in cremation.
Notes
Dr. Khin Maung U (SPHS63) stood First in Burma in the Matriculation.
He is a Multiple Luyechun (Outstanding Student) at IM (1).
He did Teaching & Research in Burma and USA.
He translated a part of Dr. Nandamalabhivansa’s course on Abhidhamma.
He and his spouse Dr. Nyunt Nyunt Wai are Gawpaka at a monastery in Maryland, USA.
