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  • Monastic Exams & Awards

    Monastic Exams & Awards

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Sept 2025

    Exams taken by most monks and/or novices

    • Pathama Nge ပထမ ငယ် : Lower grade
    • Pathama Latt ပထမ လတ် : Middle grade
    • Pathama Gyi ပထမ ကြီး : Higher grade
    • Dhammacariya ဓမ္မာ စရိယ : Dhamma teacher (e.g. Sasanadhaja Dhammacariya)

    Awards & Titles

    • Pathama Kyaw ပထမ ကျော် : First in the Pathama pyan examination
    • Alankara အလင်္ကာရ : Completed the Lanakra examination as a novice
    • Thamane Kyaw သာမဏေ ကျော် : First in the Lankara examination
    • Abhivamsa အဘိဝံသ : Completed the Set Kyar Thiha Dhammacariya before the age of 26
    • Wunthaka ဝံ သ က: First in the Dhammacariya examination
    • Thiromani သိ ရော မ ဏိ : Passed all subjects for Dhammacariya in one stroke
    • Pali Paragu ပါ ဠိ ပါ ရ ဂူ : Answered the Dhammacariya examination in Pali

    Tipitaka Exams

    Vinaya

    • Vinaya (oral)
    • Vinya (written)

    Sutta

    • Sutta (oral)
    • Sutta (written)

    Abhidhamma

    • Abhidhamma Part I (oral)
    • Abhidhamma Part I (written)
    • Abhidhamma Part II (oral)
    • Abhidhamma Part II (written)

    Tipitaka Awards & Titles

    • Tipitakadhara တိပိဋကဓရ Bearer of the Tipitaka (‘recitation or oral’)
    • Tipitakadhara Tipitakakawida : တိပိဋကဓရ တိပိဋကကောဝိဓ Bearer of the Tipitaka (‘oral’ and written’)
    • Tipitakadhara Dhammabhandagarika : တိပိဋကဓရ ဓမ္မ ဘဏ္ဍာ ကာရိက Keeper of the Dhamma Treasure
    Tipitaka Sayadaw
  • Vinaya — Monastic rules

    Vinaya — Monastic rules

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Aug 2025

    Training Rules

    • The Viniya (monastic rules of conduct) describes 227 rules.
    • The offenses range from irremediable, heavy, to light.

    4 Parajika (Irremediable) Offenses

    They are heavy offenses for which there is no remedy.

    • Sexual act
    • Stealing
    • Killing any human being
    • False statement about supernormal attainment

    The penalty is ex-communication from the Sangha of monks.

    13 Samghadiesa (Heavy) Offenses

    • Heavy offense that must be dealt by Sangha meetings
    • Must undergo probation and penance imposed by the Sangha to receive rehabilitation

    Light Offenses

    2 Indefinite rules

    • No fixed penalties for the transgressions
    • However, there are procedures by which the Sangha may assess appropriate punishment

    30 rules entailing expiation with forfeiture

    • forfeit something as a penalty

    92 rules entailing expiation [without forfeiture]

    4 rules entailing confession

    75 monastic rules of discipline

    • minor precepts regulating the conduct of the novice or the monk
    • mode of dress, deportment, eating, …

    7 dispute-settlements

    Posts

    • Abhidhamma အဘိဓမ္မာ
    • Buddhist Council သံဂါယနာ
    • Sutta သုတ္တန်
    • Tipitaka တိပိဋက
    • Vinaya ဝိနည်း