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Sayagyi U Ba Khin
Sayagyi U Ba Khin
1899 CE–1971 CE · Modern · Yangon (Rangoon)
1899–1971 CE
Sayagyi U Ba Khin (1899–1971 CE) was a prominent Burmese lay teacher of vipassanā meditation and a senior government official—independent Burma's first Accountant General. Born in Rangoon, he learned meditation in the lineage descending from Ledi Sayadaw (through Saya Thetgyi) and founded the International Meditation Centre in Rangoon in 1952, where he taught a structured course of mindfulness and insight to lay practitioners, including Westerners. His most influential pupil, S. N. Goenka, carried the method worldwide. He is well documented and treated aniconically.
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What they did here
DOCUMENTED: founded the International Meditation Centre in Rangoon (1952) and taught vipassanā there—chiefly to lay people, including foreigners—until his death in 1971.
About Yangon (Rangoon)
Yangon (formerly Rangoon) is the largest city of Myanmar (Burma), in the country's south near the Andaman coast. In the twentieth century it became a hub of the modern Burmese vipassanā (insight meditation) revival: the prime minister U Nu invited Mahāsi Sayādaw to lead the meditation centre established there (the Mahāsi Sāsana Yeiktha) in 1947, from which the 'Mahasi method' spread internationally.
In Yangon (Rangoon) at the same time
Balangoda Ananda Maitreya, Webu Sayadaw, Mahasi Sayadaw, Dipa Ma
In the same place & time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Sayagyi U Ba Khin’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Balangoda Ananda Maitreya, Webu Sayadaw, Mahasi Sayadaw, Dipa Ma
The world in their lifetime
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Sayagyi U Ba Khin’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.