U Pandita

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Panditarama Sayadaw ပဏ္ဍိတာရာမ ဆရာတော်
Title	Sayadaw
Personal life
Born	(1921-07-28)28 July 1921 Insein, Pegu, British Burma
Died	16 April 2016(2016-04-16) (aged 94) Bangkok, Thailand
Education	Dhammācariya (1952)
Occupation	bhikkhu
Religious life
Religion	Buddhism
School	Theravada
Lineage	Mahasi
Dharma names	Paṇḍita ပဏ္ဍိတ
Senior posting
Teacher	Mahasi Sayadaw
Based in	Yangon, Myanmar
Website	www.panditarama.net

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Sayadaw U Paṇḍita (Burmese: ဆရာတော် ဦးပဏ္ဍိတ, pronounced [sʰəjàdɔ̀ ʔú pàɰ̃dḭta̰]; also Ovādācariya Sayādo Ū Paṇḍitābhivaṁsa; 28 July 1921 – 16 April 2016) was one of the foremost masters of Vipassanā.^[1] He trained in the Theravada Buddhist tradition of Myanmar. A successor to the late Mahāsi Sayādaw, he has taught many of the Western teachers and students of the Mahāsi style of Vipassanā meditation. He was the abbot of Paṇḍitārāma Meditation Center in Yangon, Myanmar.^[2][3]