8th State Central Working Committee of the Sangha commences 7th meeting

THE Eighth State Central Working Committee of the Sangha held its first-day session of the seventh meeting at Maha Pasana Cave on Thiri Mingala Kaba Aye Hill in Mayangon Township, Yangon Region, yesterday morning.

 

Union Minister for Religious Affairs and Culture U Tin Oo Lwin offered cash for nine prerequisites and Myanmar version books on Parittas, Sutta and Desana preached by the Lord Buddha to State Ovadacariya Sayadaws, members of the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee and members of the State Central Working Committee of the Sangha.

 

The meeting was presided over by Chairman of the SS­MNC Aggamaha Pandita Aggamaha Saddhammajotikadhaja Dr Bhaddanta Candima Bhivamsa while Joint Secretary Sayadaw Aggamaha Ganthavacaka Pandita Aggamaha Saddhammajoti­kadhaja Bhaddanta Paññajota acted as master of ceremonies.

 

The meeting participants listened to Ovadakatha of State Ovadacariya Sayadaws.

 

At the meeting, the Chairman Sayadaw delivered a Sara­niya Ovadakatha. The Union Minister for Religious Affairs and Culture supplicated religious affairs, set records on numbers of State Ovadacariya Sayadaws, SSMNC member Sayadaws and SCWCS member Sayadaws who passed away within a year from Tabaung of 1385 ME to date and sought the approval for the list of elected State Ovadacariya Sayadaws, SSMNC member Sayadaws and members of SCWCS.

 

Secretary of SSMNC Aggamaha Pandita Aggamaha Sad­dhammajotikadhaja Mahadhammakathika Bahujanahitadhara Bhaddanta Vasettha Bhivamsa supplicated a brief report of the SSMNC on its work process within a year to the meeting.

 

Aggamaha Pandita Bhaddanta Siha, Aggamaha Pandita Bhaddanta Kovida and Aggamaha Pandita Dr Bhaddanta Suriya read the Vinicchaya, religious and educational sectors in the one-year report of the SSMNC.

 

Meeting participant members of the Sangha were served day meals by U Thein Maung-Daw Pa Pa of Sandi traditional medicine family from 240, Konzaytan Street, Yangon.

 

The meeting was also attended by Yangon Region Chief Minister U Soe Thein, Yangon Region ministers, departmental heads, the pro-rector (Admin) of International Theravada Bud­dhist Missionary University and officials. — MNA/TTA