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Ashin Thittila or Seṭṭhilābhivaṃsa (Burmese: အရှင် သေဋ္ဌိလ (သို့) သေဋ္ဌိလာဘိဝံသ; pronounced [t̪ɪʔtʰḭla̰]; Pali: Seṭṭhilābhivaṃsa), commonly known as U Thittila, was a Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk, who was also a distinguished and brilliant scholar of Buddhist literature (Pariyatti) and meditation teacher (Patipatta). He is said to be the first religious worker among the Burmese monks left for a foreign country to do Buddhist missionary work by living there for long years, to be exact, 14 consecutive years in England.

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  • Ashin Thittila or Seṭṭhilābhivaṃsa (Burmese: အရှင် သေဋ္ဌိလ (သို့) သေဋ္ဌိလာဘိဝံသ; pronounced [t̪ɪʔtʰḭla̰]; Pali: Seṭṭhilābhivaṃsa), commonly known as U Thittila, was a Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk, who was also a distinguished and brilliant scholar of Buddhist literature (Pariyatti) and meditation teacher (Patipatta). He is said to be the first religious worker among the Burmese monks left for a foreign country to do Buddhist missionary work by living there for long years, to be exact, 14 consecutive years in England. He served as a lecturer on Buddhist philosophy known as Abhidhamma at the University of Yangon, took part in compiling the Burmese-English dictionary, jointly working with Dr. Hla Pe, and wrote a few books in English and Myanmar. He is the one who translated Vibhaṅga, the second part of Abhidhamma Pitaka, from Pali to English for the first time. He also worked as a librarian at Adyar Library of Theosophical Society Adyar and the library at Buddhist Society in London. He could give inspiration and brought many other Buddhist monks from Myanmar to a new level of Buddhist missionary work around the world. He travelled throughout the world to do a great number of talks on Buddhist teachings, particularly Abhidhamma, at a variety of universities and events. (en)
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  • 1896-07-10 (xsd:date)
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  • MaungKhin (en)
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  • 1997-01-03 (xsd:date)
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  • Sayadaw (en)
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  • 1896-07-10 (xsd:date)
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  • Maung Khin (en)
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  • Badigon village, Pyawbwe Township, Mandalay Division, British Burma (en)
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  • 1997-01-03 (xsd:date)
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  • Dhammācariya (en)
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  • Ashin Thittila (en)
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  • Burmese (en)
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  • Addiccavaṃsa (en)
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  • Ashin Thittila or Seṭṭhilābhivaṃsa (Burmese: အရှင် သေဋ္ဌိလ (သို့) သေဋ္ဌိလာဘိဝံသ; pronounced [t̪ɪʔtʰḭla̰]; Pali: Seṭṭhilābhivaṃsa), commonly known as U Thittila, was a Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk, who was also a distinguished and brilliant scholar of Buddhist literature (Pariyatti) and meditation teacher (Patipatta). He is said to be the first religious worker among the Burmese monks left for a foreign country to do Buddhist missionary work by living there for long years, to be exact, 14 consecutive years in England. (en)
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