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Seikkhun (near Shwebo)

Seikkhun is a village in the Shwebo area of the Sagaing region in upper Myanmar (Burma). It was the birthplace, in 1904, of Mahāsi Sayādaw, the monk whose method of insight (vipassanā) meditation became one of the most widely practised in the modern Theravāda world.

Teachers who lived here