The Burmese government recognizes Buddhist monks who have successfully passed the Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinations as "Sāsana Azani" (သာသနာ့အာဇာနည်), from Pali (). Since the examination's initial inception in 1948, only 15 monks have been recognized as "Sāsana Azani" . Sasana Azani monks are bestowed the following titles: Tipiṭakadhara (Bearer of the "Spoken Tipitaka") and Tipiṭakakovida (Bearer of the "Written Tipitaka").

, monks recognized as "Sāsana Azani" include: +Common titleMonastic nameName in BurmeseLocation of studyCityPass year (CE)Pass year (ME)Mingun SayadawVicittasārabhivaṃsaဘဒ္ဒန္တဝိစိတ္တသာရဘိဝံသMingun Dhammanāda MonasterySagaing19531315Pakokku SayadawNemindaဘဒ္ဒန္တနေမိန္ဒMahāvisutārāma Dhamma Vimāna MonasteryMawlamyaing19591321Pyay SayadawKosallaဘဒ္ဒန္တကောသလ္လPañcanikāya MonasteryYangon19631325Mahāgandhayon SayadawSumaṅgalālaṅkāraဘဒ္ဒန္တသုမင်္ဂလာလင်္ကာရTipiṭaka Mahāgandhārāma MonasteryMayangon Township, Yangon19731335Yaw SayadawSirindābhivaṃsaဘဒ္ဒန္တသိရိန္ဒာဘိဝံသMahāvisuddhārāma Shwegyin MonasteryBahan Township, Yangon19841346Yesagyo SayadawVāyāmindābhivaṃsaဘဒ္ဒန္တဝါယာမိန္ဒာဘိဝံသTipiṭaka Mahāgantavaṃsa Nikāya MonasteryEast Dagon Township, Yangon19951356Mawgyun SayadawSīlakkhandhābhivaṃsaဘဒ္ဒန္တသီလက္ခန္ဓာဘိဝံသThree Piṭakas Nikāya MonasterySouth Dagon Township, Yangon19991361Myinmu SayadawVaṃsapālāsaṅkāraဘဒ္ဒန္တဝံသပါလာသင်္ကာရTipiṭaka Nikāya MonasterySagaing19991361Myingyan SayadawGandhamālaṅkāraဘဒ္ဒန္တဂန္ဓမာလင်္ကာရTipiṭaka Nikāya MonasterySagaing20001362Sunlun SayadawSundaraဘဒ္ဒန္တသုန္ဒရSunlun Guvipassanā MonasteryThingangyun Township, Yangon20041365Rammāvatī SayadawIndapālaဘဒ္ဒန္တဣန္ဒပါလTipiṭaka Nikāya MonasterySagaing20041365Sagaing SayadawAbhijātābhivaṃsaဘဒ္ဒန္တအဘိဇာတာဘိဝံသMahāsubodhārāsma MonasterySagaing20101371Butalin SayadawIndacariyaဘဒ္ဒန္တဣန္ဒစရိယTipiṭaka Nikāya MonasterySagaing20121373Kambhoja SayadawViriyānandaဘဒ္ဒန္တဝိရိယာနန္ဒTipiṭaka Nikāya MonasteryDagon Township, Yangon20171378Kyaukpadaung SayadawPaññāvaṃsābhivaṃsaဘဒ္ဒန္တပညာဝံသာဘိဝံသTipiṭaka Mahāgantavaṃsa Nikāya MonasteryEast Dagon Township, Yangon20201381

See also

Agga Maha Pandita Burmese Buddhist titles Monastic examinations Monastic schools in Myanmar Pāli Canon Pariyatti Thathanabaing of Burma Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinations

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