Thailand to award late Winsein Tawya Sayadaw a Ph.D

Reported by: Katie News
Wednesday, April 29th, 2015

In the second week of May, Sarsana University in Thailand will bestow deceased Winsein Tawya Sayadaw with Ph.D. honours that was awarded to him in February, 2015, according to Dr. Myint Oo, the chairman of the [Pagoda] Trustee Committee of Winsein Tawya Monastery.

"Although he planned to attend the ceremony and accept the honour of the Ph.D, Sayadaw [abbot] [attain final dissolution of assemblage of the five aggregates of being and] has passed away," said Dr. Myint Oo.

Dr. Myint Oo also said that the corpse of Sayardaw would be put into a golden coffin with a mirror and would be on display for people to pay homage. A tradition that occurs when well-known person has passed away and was requested by Sayadaw when he was alive.

On May 31, a ceremony will take place whereby Sayardaw's body will be transferred to a temporary monastery for the public to their pay respects. In January, when the birthday of Sayadaw falls, another ceremony will be held and the corpse will be located in a permanent monastery.

When he was alive, Sayadaw worked on developing not only Buddhism [Sarsana] projects, but dug wells and lakes. Not to mention help build schools, roads and bridges.

In addition, in the past 2 years, Sayadaw started donating money to the elderly citizens with the desire of paying back debts to his parents and grandparents, and with aspirations for the country to have plenty of money, ruby and other precious stones.

After Sayadaw passed away, chief minister of Mon State and Mon state government as well as members of New Mon State Party (NMSP), including NMSP's chairman Nai Htaw Mon, traveled to pay homage to his remaining body on Monday.

"When I heard the news that Sayardaw passed away, I wanted to cry. I was not able to even say a word [at that moment]," said U Ngwe Htun Aung, who donated water to everyone who came to pay homage at the funeral ceremony of the Sayardaw.

Sawyadaw passed away at 1:30 PM on April 26 of a heart attack whilst receiving medical treatment at Asia Taw Win Special medical Clinic in Rangoon. Before that, he also travelled to Thailand three times to receive medical treatment in 2014.

On 500 acres of land, Sayadaw , amoungst others, managed to build 500 statues of monks and more than 600 pagodas. The world's largest lying Buddha status was also constructed there.

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