Khin Maung Aye (Maths) of the Author

The author was born to U Ohn Myint (diseased) and Daw Aye Kyin of Khandaw Quarter (where once there was a thick grove of luxuriant khan-trees) on Bogyoke Road of Pakokku on the 15th of September, 1957. Since youth, he has been fortunate to receive some teaching from the Sayadaws of the Mahasiyeikthar Monastery on the Bogyoke Road, Mahavithukarama (the Mid-point School) and Mandalay Monastery (the Western School), and have read some Buddhist literature there in Pakokku.

Having passed the 1975 Matriculation Examinations with distinctions in Mathematics (100 full marks), Chemistry (90+) and Physics (90), he entered the University of Yangon, holding a distinguished Science Scholarship award. After receiving the Bachelor degree, he served in some Associated High Schools as an instructor with full responsibility for 2 years. After that, establishing a private tuition school of his own, he single-handedly and most successfully taught Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, and English. He married a Myaing-native school teacher, Daw Nwe Kyi, and together, they moved to Yangon in 1988.

Since 1990, assuming the name of Khin Maung Aye as a tuition instructor in Mathematics, he set up Boarder House, wrote books on Mathematics and established Pyinnyar Beikman Publishing House, all successfully. Since his university days, he had the opportunity to spend much time in the University and Kaba Aye Pagoda libraries to study Buddhist literature extensively.

In 1996, he published and distributed about a hundred thousand copies of the legends of 28 Buddhas as a matter of dhamma dāna. He has so far donated 30 sets of Ti-Pitaka. On his return from Buddha-Gaya in the year 2000, he concentrated his energy to publish articles and books on Buddhist literature.

Khin Maung Aye has been a businessman and a teacher: he taught at his privately owned Mathematics Tuition School and ran . Boarding House for 20 years. He retired from that business at the age of 40 in the year 2000, after 20 years of successful operation. He then embarked upon a writing career and a business of publication and distribution of books and other articles of educational and religious material. The books he has so far published include Mathematics for Standards 4 through 10 and, . Logarithmic tables, Physics and Chemistry for Standards 9 and 10, distributing them at low profits only allowable for the upkeep of his family. He distributed religious literature at cost prices (charity values) only.

He has studied parauatti literature and done some parapatti practice. He joined Ledi-Anāgam Saya Thetgyi Vipassanā Association in 2006 and worked for kusala (spiritual benefits) as a member of its Executive Committee.

Since then he has, with approval of the Association President Sayagyi Min Yu Wai, delivered dhamma talks on 9 occasions, each lasting 15 minutes to an hour on behalf of the Committee members at opening and closing ceremonies of meditation sessions.

The list of retreat centres where the 15-minutes-to-one-hour lectures were delivered:

1. He acted as secretary to the 45-day Training Course for Meditation Instructors for monks, organized by the Association, held at Mahāramsi Monastery, Pathein. Granted by the Mahāramsi Sayadaw, he gave a 45-minute lecture to the 68 trainee monks and several donors of food and other essentials on the subject of the 28-Buddhas and other by-gone Buddhas as innumerable as the grains of sand in the River Ganga, working on the basis of Mathematical postulation.
   Talks were given on the invitation of the Head Monks at the following places:

2. Laity's Retreat at Mahāramsi Pariyatti and Patipatti Monastery, Pathein;

3. Mingalar Aung Myay Pariyatti and Patipatti Monastery, Pathein:

4. Myaung Mya Pariyatti Monastery, Pathein;

5. Dhammavijayārāma Monastery, Thankyolan Village, Higyikyun Township;

6. Sanhtu+Sanpya Padhānikārāma Monastery, No.3 Quarter, Higyikyun Township;

7. Saddhāmajotikārun Pariyatti Monastery, No.1 Quarter, Higyikyun Township;

8. Dakkhinārun Monastery, Southern Quarter, Ngaputaw Township;

9. Sāsana Beikman, Aung Chanthar Quarter, Pauk Township, Magway Division (at the invitation of Secretary U Sein Myint and Committee members).

Talks on Dhamma Books were held at Pakokku Dhammayon. Near North Gate, Shwedagon Pagoda, Arzarni Road, Yangon:

1. In November, 2008, the 6th printing of "Illustrated Pathāna and Explanations of 24 Paccayas" was commemorated.
   How the Buddha began to talk on Pathāna and how it was disseminated among human beings were explained by way of namasandarakhaasama, with visual aid by a slideshow of 36 illustrations, to an audience of around 300.
    

2. On the 12th of December, 2009, an inauguration ceremony for the first publication of "Sotāpana, to be Worthy of Human Life" was held. As the attendants exceeded 500 in number, some had to listen to the talk, standing due to want of sitting space. The book was so popular that over 10,000 copies were sold out in a week. There were many who gave the books away as charitable gifts.
   
   The Full-moon Day of Kason, May 2011, will usher in the Buddha Year 2600 (45 years of Buddhahood + Sāsanā Year 2555). To welcome in homage to the Buddha Year, books and posters will be published and distributed on charity, and also talks given to the public. (This projected busy life, incapacitating the author to regularly attend meetings, has caused him to retire from membership of the Ledi-Anāgam Saya Thetgyi Vipassanā Association.) Regarding this, those who are interested in organizing true Theravāda Dhamma talks are requested to kindly contact him one month in advance.
   
   The largest poster (10 ft. by 40 ft.) depicting the Illustrated Pathāna and the explanation of the 24 paccayas has been donated by . Khin Maung Aye and family, hung on display near the entrance to the lift on the Southern Gate of the Shwedagon Pagoda. Other various sizes of the poster have been donated and distributed to over 500 sites throughout the country,
   
   As arrangements have been made for other would-be donors to follow suit in setting up the posters at affordable prices (charity market), there are now over 2000 sites displaying the posters. Whoever wants to donate these books and posters, orders may be placed with . Khin Maung Aye's Paññā Beikman Book Store via this website or by e-mail. Just as . Khin Maung Aye himself has done, likewise other donors may donate those books, vinyl and paper posters at prices fixed at service costs with no profits. No service charges have also been made by the author-organizer. This is a real treat, a real Dhamma Dāna market for one and all.