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Sayalay Daw Bhadda Manika

Theravada & Insight

Sayalay Daw Bhadda Manika is a Burmese Buddhist nun and meditation teacher in the Mahasi tradition. She first practised intensive meditation under Sayadaw U Pandita at the age of nineteen, while studying at the Rangoon Arts and Science University. After twelve years teaching at the Zoology Department of Yangon University she left that work in 1998, and was ordained as a nun in 1999. She is one of the resident teachers at the Panditarama Lumbini International Vipassana Meditation Center in Nepal, where she has taught since 2000, and she spends several months a year leading retreats abroad.

Theravada & InsightNepal / Myanmar
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Sayalay Daw Bhadda Manika

Sayalay Daw Bhadda Manika is a Burmese Buddhist nun and meditation teacher in the Mahasi tradition. She first practised intensive meditation under Sayadaw U Pandita at the age of nineteen, while studying at the Rangoon Arts and Science University. After twelve years teaching at the Zoology Department of Yangon University she left that work in 1998, and was ordained as a nun in 1999. She is one of the resident teachers at the Panditarama Lumbini International Vipassana Meditation Center in Nepal, where she has taught since 2000, and she spends several months a year leading retreats abroad.

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