List of Sāsana Azani recipients
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The Burmese government recognizes Buddhist monks who have successfully passed the Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinations as "Sāsana Azani" (သာသနာ့အာဇာနည်), from Pali {{IAST|Sāsanājāneyya}} ({{lit|Noble Hero of the Buddhist doctrine}}).{{Cite web|title=The gruelling tests of a monk's knowledge|url=https://frontiermyanmar.net/en/the-gruelling-tests-of-a-monks-knowledge|last=Thar|first=Hein|website=Frontier Myanmar|date=25 March 2020 |language=en|access-date=2020-05-16}} Since the examination's initial inception in 1948, only 15 monks have been recognized as "Sāsana Azani" {{as of|2020|lc=y}}.{{Cite web|title=၇၂ ကြိမ်မြောက် တိပိဋကဓရ တိပိဋကကောဝိဒ ရွေးချယ်ရေးစာမေးပွဲတွင် ၁၅ ပါးမြောက် တိပိဋကဓရ၊ တိပိဋကကောဝိဒ သာသနာ့အာဇာနည်အရှင်မြတ် (၁)ပါးပေါ်ထွန်းလာခြင်း|url=http://www.dra.gov.mm/?p=4861|last=|first=|date=2020-01-29|website=Department of Religious Affairs|language=my|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-05-16}}{{Dead link|date=September 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{Cite web|title=တိပိဋကဓရ၊ တိပိဋကကောဝိဒ စာမေးပွဲအောင်မြင်တော်မူကြသည့် သာသနာ့အာဇာနည် အရှင်သူမြတ် ၉၅ ပါးတို့အား အောင်လက်မှတ်ဘွဲ့တံဆိပ်တော် ဆက်ကပ်လှူဒါန်း|url=https://www.moi.gov.mm/?q=news/21/05/2019/id-26176|date=2019-05-21|website=Ministry of Information|language=my|access-date=2020-05-16}} Sasana Azani monks are bestowed the following titles: Tipiṭakadhara (Bearer of the "Spoken Tipitaka") and Tipiṭakakovida (Bearer of the "Written Tipitaka").
{{as of|2020}}, monks recognized as "Sāsana Azani" include:
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|+ !Common title !Name in Burmese !Location of study !City !Pass year (CE) !Pass year (ME) |
| Mingun Sayadaw
|Vicittasārabhivaṃsa |ဘဒ္ဒန္တဝိစိတ္တသာရဘိဝံသ |Mingun Dhammanāda Monastery |1953 |1315 |
| Pakokku Sayadaw
|Neminda |ဘဒ္ဒန္တနေမိန္ဒ |Mahāvisutārāma Dhamma Vimāna Monastery |1959 |1321 |
| Pyay Sayadaw
|Kosalla |ဘဒ္ဒန္တကောသလ္လ |Pañcanikāya Monastery |1963 |1325 |
| Mahāgandhayon Sayadaw
|Sumaṅgalālaṅkāra |ဘဒ္ဒန္တသုမင်္ဂလာလင်္ကာရ |Tipiṭaka Mahāgandhārāma Monastery |Mayangon Township, Yangon |1973 |1335 |
| Yaw Sayadaw
|Sirindābhivaṃsa |ဘဒ္ဒန္တသိရိန္ဒာဘိဝံသ |Mahāvisuddhārāma Shwegyin Monastery |Bahan Township, Yangon |1984 |1346 |
| Yesagyo Sayadaw
|Vāyāmindābhivaṃsa |ဘဒ္ဒန္တဝါယာမိန္ဒာဘိဝံသ |Tipiṭaka Mahāgantavaṃsa Nikāya Monastery |1995 |1356 |
| Mawgyun Sayadaw
|Sīlakkhandhābhivaṃsa |ဘဒ္ဒန္တသီလက္ခန္ဓာဘိဝံသ |Three Piṭakas Nikāya Monastery |South Dagon Township, Yangon |1999 |1361 |
| Myinmu Sayadaw
|Vaṃsapālāsaṅkāra |ဘဒ္ဒန္တဝံသပါလာသင်္ကာရ |Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery |Sagaing |1999 |1361 |
| Myingyan Sayadaw
|Gandhamālaṅkāra |ဘဒ္ဒန္တဂန္ဓမာလင်္ကာရ |Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery |Sagaing |2000 |1362 |
| Sunlun Sayadaw
|Sundara |ဘဒ္ဒန္တသုန္ဒရ |Sunlun Guvipassanā Monastery |Thingangyun Township, Yangon |2004 |1365 |
| Rammāvatī Sayadaw
|Indapāla |ဘဒ္ဒန္တဣန္ဒပါလ |Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery |Sagaing |2004 |1365 |
| Sagaing Sayadaw
|ဘဒ္ဒန္တအဘိဇာတာဘိဝံသ |Mahāsubodhārāsma Monastery |Sagaing |2010 |1371 |
| Butalin Sayadaw
|Indacariya |ဘဒ္ဒန္တဣန္ဒစရိယ |Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery |Sagaing |2012 |1373 |
| Kambhoja Sayadaw
|Viriyānanda |ဘဒ္ဒန္တဝိရိယာနန္ဒ |Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery |Dagon Township, Yangon |2017 |1378 |
| Kyaukpadaung Sayadaw
|Paññāvaṃsābhivaṃsa |ဘဒ္ဒန္တပညာဝံသာဘိဝံသ |Tipiṭaka Mahāgantavaṃsa Nikāya Monastery |East Dagon Township, Yangon |2020 |1381 |