Hledan Days (Junior Win) The Dream Village That was once ‘Aung Chan Thar’ As the bus conductor calls out ‘Hledan bus stop’, one has only to get down and ask to be guided to Aung Chan Thar street, and you…
Hledan Days (Junior Win)
Category: Community
Articles on Burmese community with the following sub sections – Letters, Memory, Portrait, Talks, Experience, Travelogue, Others, Burmese Overseas
Home Made Traditional Shan Food (video)
Here is home-made traditional Shan food video in Burma that I created for my family. Shan food in this video is surely vegetarian food. But you can add pork or fish to get more tasty. I don’t know who will…
Cartoon Festival in U Bagyan Street by Junior Win
U Ba Gyan, Burmese Cartoonist (1902 – 1953) U Ba Gyan was a famous Burmese cartoonist of all time. If he were still alive, he might be now a hundred and eleven years old. He was wise and learned…
Khahtaine Donation by Junior Win
Offering of special robes and other gifts made to the Order of monks during this season – November – Tahsaungmone – keeps alive the true spirit of offering, as taught of the Buddha. Members of the same profession or trade…
I Remember by Junior Win
Satya Narayan Goenka ( February 7, 1924 – September 29, 2013) Having heard the news of his death, I remembered him as one of the meditation masters who held the meditation center called ‘Dhamma Zawti Yeiktha Vipassana Meditation Center at…
MoeMaKa Photo – Rangoon Morning and Donation
The End of My Journey by Junior Win
The dry land which was cool under the shades was nice and pleasant. The Sun Lun Gu Kyang (Myingyan) monastery was very large estate, and there were trees, petit pond, wild flowers, and sandy soil. The dry…
A Journey To Myingyan (Upper Burma) Part 4
A pagoda called ‘Kivi Law Ka’ built on the ‘Sacred Earthen Cave.’ Three-wheel carrier was waiting outside. When we got on the carrier, we had 12 persons companied, and we introduced each other with nice and wonderful greeting. We did not…
A Journey to Myingyan – Part Three by Junior Win
Paying homage to the SunlunSayadaw, and offering yellow robes, towels, candles, incenses, and the fruits I brought from Rangoon. The grey of the morning had passed, and the sun was now high over us. After paying homage to the…
A Journey To Myingyan (Upper Burma) – Part 2 by Junior Win
Myingyan Monastery in the morning view. It still heavily rained, and the winds strongly blew. I prayed at the household shrines, and paid respect my parents and received their blessings before I left to Myingyan, and wished my trip…
A Journey to Myingyan (Upper Burma) 1 by Junior Win
(Photo- Under the pagoda, at the place Myingyan Sunlun Sayadaw whose body still lay, more than sixty years ago in the Sunlun Monastery of Myingyan.) Myingyan, situated in Upper Burma, where the tomb of Sunlun Sayadaw U Kavi…
Nu Nu Yi: the Writer, the Role Model, and the Bird by Khet Mar
A Burmese author struggles with censorship, even after it’s officially abolished. Long ago, I was surprised and overwhelmed to learn that a well-known writer who I admired also happened to be my neighbor. At that time, I was a…
A Day at the Monastery by Junior Win
2nd January of 2013 was now 14 years since our granny passed away. Time passed so quick that it was happened like yesterday. But we never forget the day my granny passed away. We always did good deed to remember our granny’s…
The Heritage of Wonder and Pride by Junior Win
‘Burma, The Land of Pagodas’ as my grandmother written, we will find pagodas wherever we go. Pagodas play a memorable part in the life of a Burmese Buddhist. We have been taught that wherever we visit, we will have to…
Under the Moonlit Night part II by Junior Win
(It might be a dream I thought because I slept last night too late by watching this moon lit night.) ‘Under the moon lit night, who love to light the world with me?’ I hummed this tune under…