Category: Publication

  • Books and DVDs

    The following is a sample of books and DVDs that I have received from Sayas, Sayadaws, Colleagues and Friends.

    From Saya U Moe Aung

    During my visit to Yangon in 2018, Saya gave me two books :

    • “Sea of man” (Collection of Saya’s articles)
      I translated two articles
    • Commemorative Issue of Swel Daw Yeik Magazine for SPZP-2016 Unlike the previous commemorative issues (Sar Saung and Magazine) which are published in Burmese and English, this issue is 100% Burmese.

    From U Wynn Htain Oo (M72)

    • Khin Maung Toe’s DVD
    • Gave it to U Myint Swe (EP74, NorCal RITAA) to share with other members and alumni.

    From U Ohn Khine (M70)

    • Magazine published for the Acariya Pu Zaw Pwe of “Combined 1st BE of 64 and 65”
      Gave it to the 69ers and requested the core organizers to compile one for the True Golden Jubilee of Graduation in 2019
    • DVD of the Acariya PZP
      Gave it to Ko Benny Tan (M70), who sponsored several of the earlier Acariya PZPs

    From Daw Than Yi (EP70)

    • RIT 1964 – 70 (by Daw Than Yi)
      Shared it with 69ers (present and former writers).

    From Dr. San Oo (EP67)

    • Kabar Phyu (Science Fiction by Journal Kyaw Tint Swe)
    • Journal
      Contains Dr. San Oo’s paper

    From Saya Des

    • His book about vocabulary development

    From U Wint Khin Zaw (A79)

    • Book by his father BBS U Khin Zaw (K)

    From Junior Win

    • Two books about U Khin Maung Latt and Daw Khin Myo Chit.
    • The Myanmar version was published to commemorate the Centennial. It won an award from “Tun Foundation”.
    • The English version was published later.

    From U Kelasa (A Lo Daw Pyie, Arizona)

    • Volume 4 : Collection of Questions and Answers on Dhamma
    • Sayadaw mailed his book from his monastery in Apache Junction, Arizona
  • Poetry

    • Various flavors of Poem
    • Kabyar (in Myanmar / Burmese)
    • Poetry, Poem … (in English)
    • Gatha (in Pali)
    • There are websites and groups that post and/or publish Poems (in various languages) and Translations

    Studies

    • Studied Poems in school
    • Studied Translations from books, magazines, special supplements in newspapers

    Sample presents

    • Poems & Translations by Rev. F Lustig (Ashin Ananda)
    • Collection of Kabyars by Tekkatho Moe War (Saya U Moe Aung)
    • Swel Daw themed Kabyars by Tekkatho Moe War, Okpo Maung Yin Maung, Maung Nyunt Htay (Ah Htet Min Hla), Ko Toe (Myit Che), Win Myint (M72)
    • Nature themed Poems : include poems by Dr. Lyn Swe Aye
    • Kabyars by Ko Yin Zaw (U Jotalankara)
    • Kabyars by Soe Sint (U Myo Sint)
    • Minthuwun’s Kabyars with translation by his Literary Friends
    • Rhyming Dictionary

    My experience

    • My poems and translations published in Guardian, Working People’s Daily, Forward Magazine, RIT Alumni International Newsletter …
    • Translation of selected kabyars in “Poetic Art Series” (organized by U Aung Myaing and illustrated by U Myo Myint)
    • Served as Panelist at 5th Irrawaddy Literary Festival in Mandalay (November 2019)
    Panel with award winning poet from UK
  • Heritage of Bagan

    Poem : Tekkatho Moe War
    Translated by Hla Min

    UNESCO inscribed Myanmar’s ancient capital of Bagan as a World Heritage Site on July 6, 2019.

    Saya U Moe Aung (Tekkatho Moe War) has portrayed the cultural, religious, historical and architectural heritage of Bagan.

    စာေရးသူရဲ႕ ႏွလံုးေသြးမွ စီးဆင္းလာတဲ့
    ႏွစ္သိမ့္ၾကည္ႏူးျခင္း ကဗ်ာ။

    “ပုဂံအေမြ”

    Heritage of BAGAN

    ႏွလံုးေသြးရဲ႕ တဒုတ္ဒုတ္ျမည္သံ
    ပုဂံေျမထဲ လြင့္ပ်ံသြား။

    Rapid, incessant heart beat
    racing towards the Bagan area

    ႏွလံုးသားမွာစူးနစ္
    အေမြအႏွစ္ဟာ ပုဂံ….။

    Deeply rooted in the bottom of my heart
    the cultural, religious, historical and architectural heritage of Bagan

    ကမၻာ႔ ရင္သပ္႐ႈေမာ၊ အံ႔ၾသဖြယ္ၾကည္ညိဳ
    ပုဂံကိုသြတ္သြင္း၊ စာရင္း၀င္ အေမြအႏွစ္
    လြမ္းရစ္ေတာ့ တစ္ဖန္
    ေၾသာ္…. ပုဂံရယ္….။

    Fascinating, full of wonder and memories,
    heart rendering, sublime Bagan
    finally, rightfully inscribed as World Heritage Site
    O … ancient Temple City
    where I left my heart

    ဟိုး အေ၀းထိ၊ လွမ္းေမွ်ာ္ၾကည့္တိုင္း
    ထိ႐ွ လြမ္းေမာ၊ တေ၀ါေ၀ါ စီးဆင္း
    ျမစ္မင္း ဧရာ၀တီ၊ ၀န္းလည္ ရစ္ေခြ
    မႈိုင္းမိႈင္းေ၀ေ၀
    ႏွလံုးသား ေၾကြက်၊ အနဂၣ ခ်စ္ျခင္း၊
    ေၾသာ္….ျမစ္မင္းဧရာ၀တီရယ္….။

    Every time one looks yonder
    touched by the whirling, swirling,
    vibrant Ayeyarwaddy (Lord of the rivers)
    Misty, dreamy panoramic view
    O … my dear Ayeyarwaddy

    ယဥ္ေက်းမႈရဲ႕
    ပန္းပု ဗိသုကာ၊ လက္ရာေထာင္ေသာင္း
    ေစတီပုထိုးေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ
    ကမၻာကုန္တည္သေ႐ြ႕၊ ၾကည္ေမြ႕ ႏွစ္လို
    ၾကည္ညိဳ ၀ပ္တြား၊ ေပ်ာက္ပ်က္မသြားဖို႔
    ထားသစၥာဉာဏ္အသိ၊ တိက် မွန္ကန္
    ေၾသာ္…. ပုဂံရယ္. …။ ။
    (ကမၻာ့ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈအေမြအႏွစ္အျဖစ္သတ္မွတ္ျခင္း
    ခံရသည့္ ပုဂံ သို႔. ….)

    Finest culture
    Treasure of sculpture
    Architecture galore
    Countless shrines and pagodas of Pagan
    Will last for eternity
    as World Heritage Site
    to be revered, cherished and appreciated
    O … glorious Bagan

    တကၠသိုလ္ မိုး၀ါ
    ၇-၇-၂၀၁၉
    နံနက္ ၁၁:၃၀

    Tekkatho Moe War (Saya U Moe Aung)
    July 7, 2019
    11: 30 AM

  • SEAP Games

    • Burma hosted the 2nd SEAP Games in 1961
      and the 5th SEAP Games in 1969.

    Till we meet again

    • My poem was published in the Forward Magazine about five decades ago.
    • I received fifteen kyats.
    • Burma was host of SEAP Games for the second time.
    • Myint Aung won six Gold medals in Gymnastics.
    • Jimmy Crampton won Gold in 800 m and 1500 m.
    • Shimbwegan succeeded Mee Tung Naw as the Marathon Champion
    • Htay Aung (M69) represented Burma in Water Polo.
      Mya Thee was his Coach.
    • Tekakatho Moe War wrote :
      Well, Maung Hla Min, this is indeed one of the unexpected from your expected works. Congrats!
    • Aung Min wrote :
      Great collection
  • Dependent Origination

    Subtitle: Paticca-samuppada

    The Wheel of life

    Author: Sayadaw U Silananda

    Editor: U Hla Myint

    Publisher : Tathagata Meditation Center

    CONTENTS

    Publisher’s notes

    Venerable U Silananda’s biography

    Dependent origination

    Introduction

    First link : Avjja-pacaya sankhara

    Second link : sabkahara-paccaya vinnanam

    Third link : Vinnana-paccaya nama-rupam

    Fourth link : Nama-rupa-paccaya salayatanam

    Fifth link : Salayatanam-paccaya phassa

    Sixth link : Phassa-paccaya vedana

    Seventh link : Vedana-paccaya tanha

    Eighth link : Tanha-paccaya upadana

    Ninth link : Upadana-paccaya bhavo

    Tenth link : Bhava-paccaya jati

    Eleventh link : Jati-paccaya jara-marana

    Conclusion

  • Practical Vipassana Meditation Exercises

    by The Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw

    Talk given to his disciples on their induction into Vipassana Mediation at Sasana Yeikhta Meditation Center, Yangon, Myanmar

    Translated from the Myanmar language by U Nyi Nyi

    Original Publisher : The Buddhasasanuggaha Association, Yangon, Myanmar

    Dhamma dana distribution : Tathagata Meditation Center, San Jose, California

    22 pages

    Vipassana (Insight Meditation)

    Understand correctly the nature of the psycho-physical phenomena taking place in the body

    (a) rupa : material qualities

    (b) nama : acts of consciousness or awareness

    (c) breathing : vayodhatu (the element of motion)

    Yogi should behave as if he were a weak invalid

    Noting (at all times)

    Physical object of attention and the mental act of noting occur as a pair

    Realize all phenomena are anicca, dukkha, and anatta

    Experience

  • U Ye Sint

    • Taught Physics in Myanmar before migrating to the USA.
    • Executive Member & Board of Director of TBSA.
    • Editor of the Dhammananda Newsletter
    • Editor of the commemorative book “Paying Homage to Sayadaw U Silanandabhivama”.
    • Pen name : “Ogga”
    • Published several books.
    • He and his siblings offered as Dhamma Dana the book “Pathan Myat Dethana” by Dr. Nandamalabhivamsa (Rector of IMBTU).
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  • Bah Lei Heh By Mg Swan Yi

    • There were two friends named Win Pe.
    • One is Director Win Pe.
    • The other wrote critiques and poems with the pen name Maung Swan Yi.
    • I met both at the San Francisco Bay Area Talks and at the house of Saya Dr. Kyaw Tint (Physics).
    • Maung Swan Yi served as a member of the Curriculum Committee in Burma.
    • He completed a Diploma in Library Science.
    • He has published poems, critiques, essays and articles.
    • He is a Patron of Moe Ma Ka.
    • He is a contributor for Myanmar Gazette, and several publications in Japan and Myanmar.
  • The Nine Essential Factors Which Strengthen the Indiriya of a Vipassana Meditating Yogi (Volume 1)

    Author : Ashin Kundalabhivamsa
    Mahasi Nayaka, Kamatthanacariya Sadhhammaramsi Center Sayadaw

    Translator and Publisher: [Dr. Daw] Khin Mya Mya [Ph.D]
    Singapore
    later relocated to US

    CONTENTS

    Biography of Sayadaw U Kundalabhivamsa
    Preface

    Chapter 1 : The Vipassana Bhavana
    (a) Vipassana meditation
    (b) How to note the Kaya

    (i) How to note the mind objects

    Chapter 2 : First Factor Which Strengthen the Indiriya of a Vipassana Meditating Yogi
    (a) The benefits of Vipassana meditation
    (b) How difficult it is to have a chance to practise Vipassana meditation
    (c) The ability of the yogi to direct his mind on the nature of cessation of phenomena

    Chapter 3 : Second Factor Which Strengthen the Indiriya of a Vipassana Meditating Yogi
    (a) How to note respectfully and penetratively
    (b) How to note to be right at the present

    (g) How to note to overcome the Upekkha Vedana

    Chapter 4 : Third Factor Which Strengthen the Indiriya of a Vipassana Meditating Yogi (Part 1)
    (a) The ability of the yogi to note continuously
    (b) The first Samphajhana instruction
    (c) The second Samphajhana instruction
    (d) The third Samphajhana instruction

    Chapter 5 : Third Factor Which Strengthen the Indiriya of a Vipassana Meditating Yogi (Part 2)
    (a) The fourth Samphajhana instruction
    (b) The fifth Samphajhana instruction
    (c) The sixth Samphajhana instruction
    (d) The seventh Samphajhana instruction

    Chapter 6 : Fourth Factor Which Strengthen the Indiriya of a Vipassana Meditating Yogi
    (a) The suitable meditation center

    (g) The suitable posture

    Chapter 7 : Fifth Factor Which Strengthen the Indiriya of a Vipassana Meditating Yogi
    (a) The causes of his attaining the Samadhi

    (d) Two types of individuals whose finding of Dhamma is slow

    Conclusion

    Quick reference from Pali to English Language

  • Book Presents

    I received books from some authors, sayadaws, sayas, friends and relatives.

    • Saya U Aung Myaing
      e.g. Collection of Swel Daw Poems by five RIT Poets
    • Saya U Aung Zaw
      e.g. Bawa and Dhamma,
      Cetana Thi Thar Kan
    • Saya U Ba Than
      e.g. Memoirs for his 78th birthday
      Dhamma dana for his birthdays
    • Saya U Ba Toke
      e.g. Life Journey of Professor U Ba Toke (by Maung Thin Char)
    • Beelin Sayadaw
      Two of his books, e.g. Destroying the Five Aggregates
      Buddhist Terms (in Myanmar and English)
    • Saya Des Rodgers
      e.g. Book of usage
    • Dhamma Beri Sayadaw
      several booklets
    • Sayadaw U Dhammapiya
      several books
    • Sayadaw U Gosita
      several booklets
    • U Htain Lin
      two books, e.g. Politician / Author
    • U Htein Win
      8-8-88
    • Sayadaw U Jotalankara
      several books
    • Junior Win
      Two books about U Khin Maung Latt and Daw Khin Myo Chit
    • Sayadaw U Kelasa
      Several books, e.g. Q&A about Buddhism
    • U Khin Maung Zaw
      e.g. U Thant Ah Yay Ah Khin, Translation of Zawgyi’s kabyars
    • U Kyaw Kyaw Hlaing
      Several books. e.g. Leadership, Bagan history
    • Saya U Moe Aung (Tekkaho Moe War)
      Several books, e.g. Collection of poems, Collection of articles
    • Sayadaw U Nyanika
      Several books
    • Saya U Nyunt Htay
      e.g. Collection of Swel Daw Poems by five RIT Poets
      Myanmar Mudita Sar Saung
    • Shwe Ku May Hnin
      Nga Doh Khit Ka Tekkatho
    • Sayadaw U Silanandabhivasmsa
      Several books
      Edited : Collection of dhamma talks, Homage to Sayadaw
    • Steeve Kay
      Six steps to a Dream
    • Maung Swan Yi
      Bah Le He
    • U Tha Hlaing
      This is Sydney
    • Saya U Than Htay
      Veda Calculations
    • Dr. Thane Oke Kyaw Myint
      Book honoring his 70th birthday
    • U Thein Naing (Patrick) and Daw Mie Mie
      Present for birthday
    • Saya U Tin Maung Nyunt
      Several books from his circulating library
    • U Tun Aung (Jeffrey) and Daw Thuza
      Book by Dr. Kan Nyunt
    • U Wint Khin Zaw
      Autobiography by his father BBS U Khin Zaw (“K”)
    • U Ye Sint
      His books
      Pathan (Dhamma dana by his siblings)