Sayadaw

In Burmese Buddhism, several honorific terms exist for Buddhist monks, reflecting their achievements and how many vassas they have passed. The most frequently used terms, which are used as prefixes to the monks' Dhamma name, include:

• "Bhaddanta" ဘဒ္ဒန္တ
• "Ashin" အရှင်
• "Shin" ရှင်
• "U" ဦး၊ ဥူး
• "Upazin" ဥပဇင်း
• "Sayadaw" ဆရာတော်
• "Sayadawgyi" ဆရာတော်ကြီး

A sayadaw may be known by his dharma name (ဘွဲ့), a qualified name, or by the name of his monastery. Thus, venerable Mingun Sayadaw, who served as "Chief Respondent" at the Sixth Buddhist council in Yangon, could be addressed as:

• Mingun Sayadaw (in reference to his home monastery at Mingun) မင်းကွန်းဆရာတော်
• U Vicittasārābhivaṃsa ဦးဝိစိတ္တသာရာဘိဝံသ
• Sayadaw U Vicittasārābhivaṃsa ဆရာတော်ဦးဝိစိတ္တသာရာဘိဝံသ
• Mingun Sayadaw U Vicittasārābhivaṃsa မင်းကွန်းဆရာတော်ဦးဝိစိတ္တသာရာဘိဝံသ
• Tipitaka Sayadaw U Vicittasārābhivaṃsa တိပိဋကဆရာတော်ဦးဝိစိတ္တသာရာဘိဝံသ
• tipiṭakadhara Dhammabhaṇḍādharika Sayadaw U Vicittasārābhivaṃsa, တိပိဋကဓရဓမ္မဘဏ္ဍာဓရိကဆရာတော်ဦးဝိစိတ္တသာရာဘိဝ့သ reference to being the first monk to be awarded the titles "Bearer of the Tripiṭaka" and "Treasurer of the Dhamma"

List of prominent Sayadaws

The following is a list of some prominent sayadaws in recent Burmese history.

• Shwe Nya War Sayadaw
• Sayadaw U Tejaniya
• Ledi Sayadaw
• Mingun Sayadaw
• Mahasi Sayadaw
• Webu Sayadaw
• Mogok Vimala
• Chanmyay Sayadaw
• Thamanya Sayadaw
• Maha Bodhi Ta Htaung Sayadaw
• Ashin Sandadika
• Sitagu Sayadaw
• U Pandita
• Ashin Nandamalabhivamsa
• Thi Lung Sayadaw
• Bhaddanta Āciṇṇa
• Taung Galay Sayadaw
• Ashin Dhammasāmi