Background
Ashin Sandadika was born on 9 January 1968 in Myazeinyaung Thahtaygon ward, Yenangyaung, Magwe Division to parents U Sein Win and Thein Thein.
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In this Burmese name, Ashin is an honorific. He matriculated from high school in 1984 with distinctions in all 6 subjects, with a score ranking him second in the country. After graduating high school, he forsook medical school and instead ordained into Mahagandhayon Monastery, a well-known monastery based in Amarapura, to study the Pitaka.
In 1992, he was conferred the title of Pahtamakyaw (ပထမကျော်ဘွဲ့) and in 1995, he was conferred the title of Dhammacariya (ဓမ္မာစရိယဘွဲ့).
In 1998, he began publishing written works. Ashin Sandadika currently resides at his own monastery, Shwe Parami Forest Monastery (ရွှေပါရမီတောရကျောင်း) on Kelatha Mountain, Thaton.
He helped establish the Shwe Parami Health Foundation. In recent years, he was led interfaith dialogue in Myanmar.
He has also spoken against the use of violence against protesting students by authorities in Letpadan Township.
Ashin Sandadika endorsed a petition in 2014 to revise Section 436 of the Constitution of Burma, which would remove the military’s automatic bloc veto on constitutional change, by reducing the veto threshold for amendments from 75% to 70% majority.
