Before 1958, there were no female engineering students. In the early 1960’s, there were a handful of female engineering students. In November 1964, there were about 100. Several stayed at G-Hall (which was formerly assigned to young sayas.) Thazin Hall became the second hostel for female students. In […]
Dr. Tun Aung Gyaw (EC69) and Daw Khin Maw Maw donated books to the Sayadaws in Shwe Bo. Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu.
Characteristics of a G-Hall resident By Ohnmar Myint ဂ်ီေဟာသူဆိုတာမိတ္ကပ္မကူသနပ္ခါးမလိမ္းမ်က္ႏွာအေျပာင္သားနဲ႔ေတြ႔ဆုံရာ ေနရာတိုင္းမွာတဟားဟားရယ္တတ္တဲ့သူ ဂ်ီေဟာသူဆိုဆိုတာအေျပာမခ်ိဳအပိုမေျပာရင္ဘတ္ထဲကစကားမ်က္ႏွာမွာ အတိုင္းသားေပၚတတ္တဲ့သူ ဂ်ီးေဟာသူဆိုတာက်ားဆိုရင္ေမာင္ဘြားမဆိုရင္ ညီအမ အလားမခြဲျခားဘဲတေသြးတသားထဲ ေနတတ္တဲ့သူ ဂ်ီေဟာသူဆိုတာပုပု ဝဝ ပိန္ပိန္ ႐ွည္႐ွည္လွလွ ပပ ခန္႔ခန္႔ ထည္ထည္ပန္းပ်ိဳးတဲ့လက္နဲ႔မ်ိဳးဆက္ကို ပ်ိဳးေထာင္ေဆးစက္က်ရာ အ႐ုပ္ထင္လို႔ေလာကကို အလွဆင္တတ္သူ ဂ်ီေဟာသူဆိုတာအမိတကၠသိုလ္ မဆိုထားဗမာျပည္ တနံတလ်ားဘယ္ေနရာမွာ ဘာလိုသတဲ့ႏွစ္ခါမေတြးဘဲ မ်ွတတတ္သူ ဂ်ီေဟာသူဆိုတာမနာလိုကင္း ဝန္တို႐ွင္းၿပီးကြန္းခိုရာ ဒီစခန္းမွသည္သဒၵါတရား ပညာအားနဲ႔နိဗၺာန္တိုင္ေအာင္ လွမ္းၾကမယ့္သူ။
Under the sponsorship of Swel Daw Yeik Foundation (SDYF), about 120 sayas were provided medical check up for 2018 at Grand Hantha Hospital. May Thet Hlaing (May Nge) and team are volunteers for helping the sayas with logistics. In the past, “Steeve and Helen Kay Health Care Fund […]
A few years back, I received two books as present. Nga Kyan Pyan Kyaung The first Resident Sayadaw was from Dawei (Tavoy). He successfully recited five Dhamma Texts (Kyan). A book was published to celebrate the Centennial of the founding of the “Nga Kyan Pyan (Dawei) Sasana Yeiktha“. […]
Sayagyis and senior sayas Source : Saya U Myo Kyi (EE59) 1. U Kyaw Tun 1950 – 1971 (started teaching at BOC College) 2. U C Ping Lee 1950 – 19523. U Sein Hlaing 1954 – 19864. U Tin Swe 1954 – 19985. Dr. Freddie Ba Hli (Part […]
Dana may stand for offering, alms, and donation. Dana transcends religion and culture. For Buddhists Dana provides opportunities to gain kusala (wholesome deeds) before, during and after the offering. One can share merits when performing a Dana. One can rejoice past Dana and gain merits. Dana may be […]
Heart is a body organ. Heart attacks may result in death. Heart aches and heart breaks are painful. Heart Beat Systems send “Heart Beat” to inform that they are still active. Some Sayas and alumni contacted me that they had not received my “RIT Alumni International News Update” […]
The group maintains a list of GBNF (Gone But Not Forgotten). Ko Ohn Khine (M70) reports the list periodically. He missed two names in his earlier list and was corrected by Ko Ko Gyi and Zaw Win (Zinyaw Gyi). Each entry contains Serial Number Name Roll Number in […]
The first G-Hall Reunion was held on 28th January 2018. The backdrops were provided by Khin Maung Kyi and the photos were taken by Eric Foo. The second G-Hall Reunion will be held on 24th November 2018. There will be food and fun. Posters will display short stories […]
