Daw Daw Nang Kyi Kyi Thein

Myanmar

Daw Daw Nang Kyi Kyi Thein

Myanmar

Daw Daw Nang Kyi Kyi Thein was born in 1959 in Thant Yan City, Northern Shan State, Myanmar. Her Father is U Hla Shwe (Sao Mao Laung) and her Mother is Dwa Myint (Pa Nang Kham Seeing). She studied til eighth grade in the State High School of Thant Yan City, Northern Shan State, Myanmar. She got married in 1982 with U Saw Moung (Zao U Moung) and then she had three children.

After her father passed away in 1998, she began to manage the religious activities along with her mother and her younger brother "Sayadaw Saosukham" at Dhamma-gun-ye Meditation Center (DMC), which her parents established.

She organizes a 10-day vipassana meditation retreat twice a year, once during the Vassa (Rainy Season Retreat) and once during the Thingyan festival (Myanmar’s New Year and water festival in mid-April). More than 500 practitioners join each retreat. In addition, more than 50 monks and nuns shelter at the center and meditate on an ongoing basis. She has served those practitioners as a family heritage for decades. The Dhamma-gun-ye Meditation Center already celebrated its 50th golden jubilee on the full moon day of 2018.

She has sponsored and served practitioners (Yogis) who have participated in meditation retreats in more than (40) cities around: Shan State, Kachin State, and Kayah State, Myanmar. In addition, she is the only Shan woman empowered to guide meditation practitioners at these retreats.

Along with her younger brother, monk, assisting her, she has conducted meditation retreats for Shan people living in Assam State, India and Manipur State, India.

For the past 20 years, she has continuously taught and assisted in vipassana meditation retreats. She has worked hard to improve all aspects of the DMC.

Today, Daw Daw Nang Kyi Kyi Thein receives this Award with Honor for such continuous missionary work conducted for decades.