Tipiṭakadhara Dhammabhaṇḍāgārika ( my, တိပိဋကဓရ ဓမ္မဘဏ္ဍာဂါရိက) is an honorific
Burmese Buddhist title conferred by the
government of Myanmar to the
Buddhist monks
A ''bhikkhu'' (Pali: भिक्खु, Sanskrit: भिक्षु, ''bhikṣu'') is an ordained male in Buddhist monasticism. Male and female monastics ("nun", ''bhikkhunī'', Sanskrit ''bhikṣuṇī'') are members of the Sangha (Buddhist c ...
who have passed five years since completing all levels of
in accordance with the provision No. 37/2010 of the
State Peace and Development Council
The State Peace and Development Council ( my, နိုင်ငံတော် အေးချမ်းသာယာရေး နှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေး ကောင်စီ ; abbreviated SPDC or , ) was the offi ...
. The awardees are annually announced on 4 January, the
Independence Day
An independence day is an annual event commemorating the anniversary of a nation's independence or statehood, usually after ceasing to be a group or part of another nation or state, or more rarely after the end of a military occupation. Man ...
of
Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...
.
Qualifications
According to the section 6 (A) of the Provisions on the Religious Titles promulgated on 17 June 2015, a recipient must meet the following qualifications:
# Have been conferred the title of Tipitakadhara for his memorization the
Tipitaka
# Have been conferred the title of Tipitakakovida for being able to deal with difficult matters on Tipitaka
# Five years had passed since the title of Tpitakadhara Tipitakakovida have been conferred
# Be fully endowed with
morality
Morality () is the differentiation of intentions, decisions and actions between those that are distinguished as proper (right) and those that are improper (wrong). Morality can be a body of standards or principles derived from a code of cond ...
, fairness and wisdom
Recipients
As of 2022, there are 13 ''
sayadaw
A sayadaw ( my, ဆရာတော်, ; , and alternatively spelled ''hsayadaw'', ''sayado'', ''sayāḍo'' or ''sayāḍaw'') is a Burmese Buddhist title used to reference the senior monk or abbot of a monastery. Some distinguished sayadaws wo ...
s'' who have been offered the title.
#
Ashin Vicittasārābhivaṃsa
# Ashin Neminda
# Ashin Kosalla
# Ashin Sumaṅgalālaṅkāra
# Ashin Sīrindābhivaṃsa
# Ashin Vāyāmindābhivaṃsa
# Ashin Sīlakkhandhābhivaṃsa
# Ashin Vaṃsapālālaṅkāra
# Ashin Gandhamālālaṅkāra
# Ashin Sunada
# Ashin Indapāla
#
Ashin Abhijātābhivaṃsa
# Ashin Indācariya
References
{{Religion in Myanmar
Burmese Buddhist titles