In addition to the Annual San Francisco Bay Area Literary Talks, there are also ad hoc talks by visiting Sar Yay Sayas and Sayamas.
Saya Dr. San Tint (EE61) and U Shein Soe Myint (EC83, UCC) are GBNF.
Zero has no value when it stands by itself. When a zero is placed to the right of a number, it increases the value N-fold (where N, say 10, is the Base or Radix of the Number System.
Ten stands for the number of fingers on our hands. It is used as the Base of the Decimal Number System. 10/10 (Ten out of Ten) is a perfect score in some contests (e.g. gymnastics, diving).
Twenty is known as a “Score”. Abraham Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address starts with “Four scores and seven years ago”. In French and Pali, the number 80 is expressed as four 20s (instead of eight tens). A card name is known as Vingt-e-un (Twenty One).
Per Dr. Kyaw Tint] : Maybe because we have 10 fingers and 10 toes, altogether adding up to score.
Sixty has many factors : 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30 …
It is used as a Base for Time and Angles.
e.g 1 minute = 60 seconds
1 hour = 60 minutes
Two is used as a Base for the Binary Number System.
Digital computers extensively use the system.
Four, Eight and Sixteen are used as Bases (in Computer Science).
ဗုဒ္ဓါနံ ဇိဝိတဿ နသက္ကာ ကေနစိ အန္တရာယောကာတုံ တထာမေဟောတုဧတေန သစ္စဝဇ္ဇေန သောတ္ထိ ဆန္ဒပြပြည်သူလူထုအပေါင်း ဟောတုသဗ္ဗဒါ
မြတ်စွာဘုရား၏အသက် ဘေးအန္တရာယ်ကို တစုံတစ်ယောက်သောသူမှ ပြုချင်းငှာမတတ်နိုင်။ ဤမှန်သောသစ္စာကြောင့် ဆန္ဒပြသူအပေါင်း အခါခပ်သိမ်း ဘေးကင်းပါစေ
ဉုံဗုဒ္ဓ စက္ခုံ တစ်ကိုယ်လုံးခြုံ
ဉုံဓမ္မ စက္ခုံ တစ်ကိုယ်လုံးခြုံ
ဉုံသံဃာ့ စက္ခုံ တစ်ကိုယ်လုံးခြုံ
ဉုံဗုဒ္ဓ စက္ခုံ တစ်အိမ်လုံးခြုံ
ဉုံဓမ္မ စက္ခုံ တစ်အိမ်လုံးခြုံ
ဉုံသံဃာ့ စက္ခုံ တစ်အိမ်လုံးခြုံ
ဉုံဗုဒ္ဓ စက္ခုံ တစ်လမ်းလုံးခြုံ
ဉုံဓမ္မ စက္ခုံ တစ်လမ်းလုံးခြုံ
ဉုံသံဃာ့ စက္ခုံ တစ်လမ်းလုံးခြုံ
ဉုံဗုဒ္ဓ စက္ခုံ တစ်မြို့လုံးခြုံ
ဉုံဓမ္မ စက္ခုံ တစ်မြို့လုံးခြုံ
ဉုံသံဃာ့ စက္ခုံ တစ်မြို့လုံးခြုံ
ဉုံဗုဒ္ဓ စက္ခုံ တစ်ပြည်လုံးခြုံ
ဉုံဓမ္မ စက္ခုံ တစ်ပြည်လုံးခြုံ
ဉုံသံဃာ့ စက္ခုံ တစ်ပြည်လုံးခြုံ
မြန်မာ ပြည်သူ/ပြည်သားများ အားလုံး ဘေးအန္တရာယ် ကင်းကြပါစေ
UNESCO provides grant for sites that have been accepted as “UNESCO Heritage Site”.
Some ancient Pyu sites (e.g. Hanlin) are designated as UNESCO Heritage Site.
Yangon Heritage Trust has recognized several old schools as Yangon City Heritage. They include :
In the USA, some sites and buildings are deemed to be “historic” (e.g. 150+ years old).
Restrictions are placed on how to upgrade them.
The types of Lottery vary by country and state.
Well known ones include
The winners have an option to take the grand prize in installments over a specified period of years, or to take lump sum. They have to pay applicable taxes.
The shop gets a commission for selling winning tickets.
[Per Dr. Nyunt Wai] :
To avoid law suit, Aung Kha Yu Pan was created. Near the main Aung Su Pan lottery shop in Thein-gyi-zay, we could see smaller shops on the platform in front. One of these was Aung Kha-Yu Pan. Hanging Sabai pan-gones (jasmine garlands) between Kha and Yu, the sign board looked just like Aung Su Pan. Because the main shop was crowded, some people bought tickets from Aung Kha Yu Pan, thinking it was a road-side stand of Aung Su Pan.
by Hla Min
Updated : May 2025
See “Peter’s Drawings for Cho Cho Hlaing’s Thesis”
The title of my thesis is “The cultural background of preparing and serving of Burmese Food“
There are 8 chapters starting with Dana, such as offering (Soon Laung De) to a row of SANGHAS, SoonKyway at home.
For each chapter Peter did a wonderful drawing, all together ten drawings which clearly express the text, “ A Picture is Worth A Thoughtful Words”. I gained Credit in my Final Exam and the Professor was very impressed with Peter’s drawings.
Dear Win Mar, Min Ko, Prudence & Ye Lay,
The sudden and unexpected passing away of your beloved husband and father Dr. Peter Khin Tun on April 13, 2020 sent a wave of grief throughout UK and the world.
Since then tributes have poured in from his Berkshire hospital colleagues and staff, relatives and friends around the world by way of emails, posting on Face Book etc. However, the most valuable and encouraging
words was from Oxford Sayadaw U Dhammasami.
Sayadaw U Dhammasami was in Yangon during that time and sent this addressed to Peter through one of his close devotee. He even instructed the monks at his Oxford monastery to perform Dana for Peter and to share
the good merits. Sayadaw also emailed to Min Ko and Ye Lay expressing his heartfelt sympathy.
Permit me to supplement Sayadaw’s view about Peter. The Buddha said:
“By oneself is evil done, by oneself is one defiled,
By oneself is evil not done, by oneself is one purified.
Both defilement and purity depend on oneself.
No one is purified by another.”
As you all know, the Buddha taught us “The Art of Living”, or “A Way of Life.” And Peter knew it very well since he was a teenager and he practiced accordingly, not only when praying and meditating but while at work or at
home. He discharged his profound duty of a parent as spelt out in the Siṅgālovāda Sutta (Sigālovāda Sutta). In this Sutta Buddha taught the moral conduct of different members of the society to achieve a peaceful
harmonious society. The Buddha described the duties of parents to their children as follows:
In conclusion I wish to share with you the untimely losses in our family before Peter.
by Hla Min
Updated : May 2025
U Myint Swe (EP74) and Daw San San (EC74) gave us a ride to iNapa Winery to attend the gathering hosted by U Gordon Kaung (M83) and Daw Lillian Kaung (EC83). Thanks to all four of them.
Attendees include
U Aung Soe Win presented a Myanmar Flag.
Group photos were taken in front of the flags.
iNapa Wine presented two bottles of Premium Wine:
The event was reported in Myanmar Gazette.
Photos :
HlaMin 