A sayadaw (Burmese: ဆရာတော်, IPA: [sʰəjàdɔ̀]; lit. 'royal teacher', and alternatively spelled hsayadaw, sayado, sayāḍo or sayāḍaw, Sanskrit : Śārada) is a Burmese Buddhist title used to reference the senior monk or abbot of a monastery. [1]

Mahāsī Sayādaw U Sobhana (Burmese: မဟာစည်ဆရာတော် ဦးသောဘန, pronounced [məhàsì sʰəjàdɔ̀ ʔú θɔ́bəna̰]; 29 July 1904 – 14 August 1982) was a Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk and meditation master who had a significant impact on the teaching of vipassanā (insight) meditation in the West and throughout Asia.

雷迪尊者（Ledi Sayadaw 1846-1923），是缅甸当代僧人中，德行、学养兼具的修行人，他的著作等身，多达七十六册，其中十六册是用巴利文撰写，其余为缅甸文。

西亞多 （緬甸語： ဆရာတော်, IPA： [sʰəjàdɔ̀]，拉丁轉寫： hsayadaw， sayado， sayāḍo， sayāḍaw，或 Sayadaw），又譯 薩亞多， 緬甸 佛教頭銜，字面意義為“皇家教師”，佛教 僧團 中的資深 長老 或是寺院 住持 都可以被冠上這個稱號。

马哈希尊者（Mahasi Sayadaw, U Sobhana Mahathera 1904-1982 。 按：「尊者」是对教授禅法的法师或长老比丘的称呼）对上座部佛教教义与内观禅法有深远的影响。 1904年他出生在上缅甸雪布的谢昆村（Seikkhun, Shwebo）。 六岁时开始在村里的一所寺院学习经教，十二岁时出家为沙弥，法名为梭巴纳（Sobhana,意思是具足优雅和庄严）， 1923年11月26日，十九岁时受具足成为比丘。 在二十岁时（1923年）受具足戒。 由于他的聪颖过人与认真学法，紧接着三年，顺 …

Ledi Sayadaw U Ñaṇadhaja (Burmese: လယ်တီဆရာတော် ဦးဉာဏဓဇ, pronounced [lɛ̀dì sʰəjàdɔ̀ ʔú ɲàna̰dəza̰]; 1 December 1846 – 27 June 1923 [1]) was an influential Theravada Buddhist monk. He was recognized from a young age as being developed in both the theory (Abhidhamma) and practice of Buddhism and so was revered as being scholarly. [2] .

宣隆·西亚多 （U Sunlun Sayadaw；尊者·宣隆·西亚多），又译 孙伦·西亚多 或孙伦大师，生于1878年的 缅甸 中部敏建县宣隆村（Sunlun Town，又译孙伦村），1920年出家，于1920年11月9日证得 阿罗汉 果 [4]，1952年入灭，肉身不腐。

The teachings of the revolutionary Burmese teacher Mahasi Sayadaw influenced people throughout the world to take up Buddhist meditation and helped to revive the tradition in his …

The Venerable Ledi Sayadaw was perhaps the outstanding Buddhist figure of his age. All who have come into contact with the path of Dhamma in recent years owe a great debt of gratitude to this scholarly, saintly monk who was instrumental in re-enlivening the traditional practice of Vipassana, making it more available for renunciates and lay ...

Venerable Ledi Sayadaw is an invaluable link in the chain of teachers that preserved Vipassana in its pristine purity in Myamnar. Hence it is natural that Vipassana students should be eager to read the books written by the Venerable Sayadaw, probably the most illustrious Abhidhamma scholar of the last two centuries.