The Way to Ultimate Calm: Selected Discourses of Webu Sayadaw
Ingyinbin (Khin-U township) · 2001
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Webu Sayadaw
Webu Sayadaw
1896 CE–1977 CE · Modern · Ingyinbin (Khin-U township)
1896–1977 CE
Webu Sayadaw (U Kumāra, 1896–1977 CE) was a Burmese forest monk renowned for an austere, intensely practice-centered life and for teaching the single-minded cultivation of mindfulness of breathing (ānāpāna) as a complete path. Born at Ingyinbin in upper Burma, he spent long periods in solitude rather than scholarship or administration, and was widely esteemed for his attainment. His connection with Sayagyi U Ba Khin—who invited him to Rangoon in 1953—links him to the lay vipassanā lineage that later spread worldwide. He is well documented and treated aniconically.
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DOCUMENTED: born U Kumāra in 1896 in upper Burma; after ordination he left settled monastic life around 1923 for years of solitary practice, and later returned to his birth village, where he died in 1977.
About Ingyinbin (Khin-U township)
Ingyinbin is a village in the Khin-U township of the Sagaing region in upper Myanmar (Burma). It was the birthplace, in 1896, of Webu Sayādaw, a revered Burmese meditation master noted for his emphasis on continuous mindfulness of breathing (ānāpāna) over scholastic study.
In the same place & time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Webu Sayadaw’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Balangoda Ananda Maitreya, Sayagyi U Ba Khin, Mahasi Sayadaw, Dipa Ma
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Webu Sayadaw’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.