U Myint Swe
Dhammæcariya, B. A. Honours, M. A. (London)
Founder and Rector of Mandalay Buddhist University and Rangoon Buddhist University, Burma

• I was born in 1934 at “ Tha-phan-chaung” villgae,‘ TatKone’ township ‘Yeme-thin’ district, ‘Mandalay’ Division, Burma . My parents are U OhnShwe and Daw Saw Aye. I am the youngest of their three sons and one (eldest) daughter. At the age of 10, I started learning, at our village monastery, the Burmese Primer; then basic Buddhism and Pali, through “Ma³gala Sutta, Loka-niti, eleven ParittaSuttas; then elementary mathematics-“addition, subtraction, multiplication and division”. I became a novice at 13. Then I moved to another village monastery in the neighbourhood, where i studied a little higher mathematics, up to the 7th standard, for about one year and I used to read the “ Jataka stories and the life of Buddha”, whenever I was free.
• Then I moved to a forest-monastery, near a town called ‘ Yame-thin’ and started learning the traditional Pæli grammar called ‘ Kaccæyana’, Abhidhamma, Pætimokha rules for monks etc. for the monastic examination. Within 4 years, I passed 3 monastic (traditional) examinations, including ‘Pathamagyi’ (matriculation) examination at 18.
• Then I moved to Mandalay and stayed in ‘Visuddharama’ monastery to study the PaliPitakas and their commentaries prescribed for “Dhammacariya” examination, and passed the 6 subjects out of 9, at 19. Then I moved to “Sagaing Hill” to study English under “Anisakhan” Sayadaw and also studied by myself the remaining 3 subjects at my leisure, for Dhammacariya, all of which I passed at the next examination. So I got the * “Dhammacariya” degree (equivalent to B.A) at 20 (in 1953), for having passed all the 9 subjects, covering 3 Pitakas or 5 Nikayas, together with their commentaries.
• Afterwards, I moved back to Mandalay and studied, at the tuition schools, the (arts) subjects. I passed the Matriculation (10thstandard) examination at 22 (in 1955). Then I proceeded to study, at Mandalay University, the subjects prescribed for B.A. Honours degree for 5 years and passed * B.A. Honours ( Pali& Sanskrit) examination at 27 in 1960. Then I was appointed (as a) Tutor in Pali Department, Mandalay University.
• After one year, I was selected as a “ State scholar” by the government for futher study at London University, U. K, ( S.O.A.S.) in 1961. I studied there Pali and Sanskrit for 3 years and got * M. A. ( Indo-Aryan) degree, at 31, in 1964. Then I came back home to work as an Assistant Lecturer in Pali Department. Mandalay University, teaching “Buddhism, Pali Sanskrit and Prakrit. Then I started writing books on those subjects at my leisure. (Now I have written about 65 books.)
• When the “State Pariyatti-sasana University” was opened for monks in Mandalay (and also in Rangoon) in 1986, I have worked (till now) as an Associate Professor, in Pali Department, teaching Pali, Sanskrit and Prakrit languages to the monk students and supervising dissertations for M.A. When I retired ( from Mandalay University), on a pension as an Associate Professor at 60 in 1994, I founded a Private University, known as Mandalay Buddhist University ( M B U) and in 2004, another “ Buddhist University “in Rangon, acting as Rector as well. I am now still working hard (even at 77) with the devotion for Buddhasasana, spending most of my time for teaching and writing books for my Buddhist University ( Mandalay and Rangoon) and other research papers. *It is a happy life to work hard for the welfare of one's nation and religion.”

MyintSwe
14. 5. 2011

ဆရာကြီး ဦးမြင့်ဆွေသည် ၂၀၁၄ ခုနှစ် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၉ ရက်နေ့တွင် ကွယ်လွန်ခဲ့သည်။