Religious Affairs: Senior General Pays Respects To Insein Ywama Sayadaw

Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing on Sunday paid respects to Insein Ywama Sayadaw at Insein Ywama Learning Centre in Insein Township of Yangon Region.

There, the Senior General supplicated progress in carving the Maravijaya sitting Buddha image which would be the highest marble Buddha image in the world in line with the advice of State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee member Sayadaws and religious and Myanmar traditions, arrangements to carve the stone inscriptions bearing the Tri Pitaka treatises and Atthakatha and Tika treatises for public observation, and plan to publish the Tri Pitaka treatises, Atthakatha and Tika treatises in Pali and Romanize languages to the international Buddhist academies, learning centres and monasteries.

After asking the health condition of the Sayadaw, the Senior General supplicated medical checkup and preventive measures for the health conditions, reduction of the COVID-19 infection rate to the certain degree and plan to complete vaccination for a half of the total population this year.

The Sayadaw expressed his delightedness for development of the State and the national and propagation of the Sasana. The Sayadaw urged the Senior General to further preserve the nationality, language and religion.

The Senior General presented eight prerequisites, alms, cash for nine prerequisites, 100 bags of rice, 100 viss of cooking oil, one bag of salt, supplement nutritious foodstuffs and medicines to the Sayadaw. The union ministers also offered alms to the Sayadaw.