ဆရာၾကီး ဦးေရႊေအာင္

ပဲခူးတုိင္း၊ က၀ျမဳိ့နယ္၊ ဖေလးရြာတြင္ အဖ ဦးစု၊ အမိ ေဒၚအုန္းရွင္တုိ့က ၁၉၂၈-ခု၊ ဇြန္လ ၇-ရက္ေန့တြင္ ေမြးဖြားသည္။ အမည္ရင္းမွာ ဦးေရႊေအာင္ ျဖစ္သည္။

ဖေလးရြာ အလယ္တန္းေက်ာင္း (၁၉၃၅)၊ ပဲခူးျမဳိ့၊ မဟာ၀ိသုတာရာမေက်ာင္းတုိက္ (၁၉၄၆)၊ မႏၱေလးျမဳိ့၊ ေတာင္ျပင္ ဘုရားၾကီးတုိက္ ဆရာေတာ္ ဦးၾကယ္ေက်ာင္း (၁၉၄၈)၊ သက္ၾကီးတကၠသုိလ္ (၁၉၆၀)၊ အိႏၵိယျပည္၊ ဘုံေဘ (Mumbai)တကၠသုိလ္ (၁၉၇၁) တုိ့တြင္ ပညာသင္ၾကားခဲ့သည္။ ေစတီယဂၤဏ ဓမၼာစရိယ၊ သက်သီဟ ဓမၼာစရိယ (၀ဋံသကာ)၊ အစုိးရ ဓမၼာစရိယ (သိေရာမဏိ) (၁၉၅၃)၊ တကၠသုိလ္၀င္တန္း (၁၉၅၆)၊ သက္ၾကီးတကၠသုိလ္မွ ၀ိဇၨာဘြဲ့ (၁၉၆၅)၊ ဘုံေဘတကၠသုိလ္မွ မဟာ၀ိဇၨာဘြဲ့ (သကၠတ)ႏွင့္ သဒၶမၼေဇာတိကဓဇ (၁၉၉၂) တုိ့ကုိ ရရွိခဲ့သည္။
၁၉၄၁-တြင္ ရွင္သာမေဏ၀တ္သည္။ ၁၉၄၈-တြင္ ရဟန္းအျဖစ္သုိ့ ေရာက္သည္။ ၁၉၆၀-တြင္ လူ၀တ္လဲသည္။ ျပည့္သူေထာက္ပံ့ေရးအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္မႈအဖြဲ့၌ ၀န္ထမ္း၊ ဗုဒၶသာသနာႏုဂၢဟအဖြဲ့၌ လက္ေထာက္အယ္ဒီတာ၊ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးအရာရွိ (၁)၊ သာသနာေရးဦးစီး႒ာန၌ တြဲဖက္ညႊန္ၾကားေရးမႈ တာ၀န္မ်ားကုိ ထမ္းေဆာင္ခဲ့သည္။ ၁၉၈၈-တြင္ အျငိမ္းစားယူသည္။
ထင္ရွားေသာစာအုပ္မ်ားမွာ - ရသစာေပ၏ရသ၊ ဗုဒၶ-ေလာကသားတုိ့၏ အႏႈိင္းမဲ့ ေက်းဇူးရွင္ ကိုယ္က်င့္ဗုဒၶ၀င္၊ အျမင္မ်ား ေျပာင္းလဲျခင္းႏွင့္ အေတြးအျမင္ စာစုမ်ား၊ ဘ၀အက်ဥ္းသား၊ ဗုဒၶ သို့မဟုတ္ အႏႈိင္းမဲ့၊ ကုသုိလ္ႏွင့္အကုသုိလ္၊ ဗုဒၶ၀ါဒေပၚထြန္းျခင္း၊ စာဖတ္သူမ်ား၊ ခ်မ္းသာကုိ ရွာေဖြျခင္း၊ ဘ၀အျမင္သစ္၊ ေထရ၀ါဒအုတ္ျမစ္၊ အတၱ၀ါဒမွ အနတၱ၀ါဒသုိ့ ခရီးစဥ္ - တုိ့ ျဖစ္ၾကသည္။
၁၉၉၄-ခု၊ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၂၂-ရက္တြင္ ရန္ကုန္ျမဳိ့၌ ကြယ္လြန္သည္။

ဓမၼပဒ-ေပါင္းခ်ဳပ္ စာအုပ္မွ ကူးယူေဖာ္ျပသည္။

U Shwe Aung

He is the eldest of the children born to farmer U Su and Daw Ohn Shin, Phalay village, Kawa Township, Bago Division.

He was born on 7th June 1928. As both his parents passed away while he was still young, he and his brother and three sisters were brought up by their grand parents.
He started learning at the age of seven at Phalay Village Central Monastery. When he was thirteen, he became a novice and continued to learn the Pitakas. At the age of eighteen, he joined the Maha Wisutarama Monastery of Bago for further students and at twenty years of age, he was ordained monk at the same monastery.

After ordination, he pursued his studies at Sippamanju Monastery of Min-ma-naing Kwetthit, Aungmingala Taikkthit Monastery of Ahlone and Nyaungdon Monastery of Bahan in Yangon; and then under Veneral U Kyai of Payagyi Taik in Mandalay.
He appeared for several very advanced Pitaka examinations with outstanding success and holds many certificates.

In 1954, he served as a teacher in Venerable U Kyai’s Monastery. In 1955, while serving a teacher in Eindawya Dhamma Pamsi Monastery of Yangon, he learned English and passed the Matriculation Examination in 1956 and the Intermediate of Arts examination of the Yangon University in 1958.

When his childhood Sayadaw passed away in 1959, he returned to his native village monastery at Phalay. Then he spent the lent in Maha Visutarama monastery of Bago that year.

In 1960, he returned to the life of a layman and worked in the Civil Supplies Department. He also attended the Adult University and passed the B.A. examination in 1965, taking the subject combination of pure mathematics, applied mathematics and Burmese language and literature.

On 2-12-1962- he married Daw Khin Sein, daughter of U Maung Win and Daw Naing of 2nd Street, Thayettaw Quarter Kemmendine Township and two sons have been to them.
In 1968, he worked with the Buddha Sasananuggaha Ahphwai. In 1970, under the Columbo Plan Scholarship, he studied Sanskrit at the University of Bombay and was awarded M.A (Sanskrit) degree.

On return to Myanmar, he joined the Religious Affairs Department of the Ministry of Home and Religious Affairs. He also served as external examiner in the Philosophy Department of the Yangon University. On 1st June 1988, he retired from the post of Additional director of the Peligious Affairs Department. From 1 June 1993, he has been appointed as an advisor of Minastry of Peligious Affairs.
The following are the books on Pitakas he has written and published.
(1) The essence (Rasa) of Rasa Literture
(2) From Attavada to Anattavada
(3) Siddhanta Komudi (First volume)
(4) Dhammapada (Yamaka Vagga and Theravada Foundation)
(5) The Buddha (or) Peerless Benefactor
Books he has written and are not yet published are
(1) Siddhanta Komudi (Third Volume)
(2) Dhammapada (Appamada Vagga, Citta Vagga, Puppha Vagga)
(3) Readers
(4) Search for Happiness
(5) New outlook on life
Besides, he writes articles for religious magazine from time to time.
He is now living with his wife Daw Khin Sein at No. 102, 2nd Lane, Thayettaw Quarter, Kemmendine Township, Rangon Division.

“BUDDHA” the peerless benefactor of humanity စာအုပ္မွ ကူးယူေဖာ္ျပသည္