Sayadaw U Thuzana

Sayadaw U Thuzana is the current Abbot of Tathagata Meditation Center (TMC). Before coming to TMC in May 2011, he was the chief meditation master at the Malaysian Buddhist Meditation Center (MBMC) in Penang, Malaysia, from 2003-2010. From 2000-2003, he was an assistant to Sayadawgyi Panditābhivamsa at Hse-mine-gone Meditation Center in Bago, Myanmar. In this capacity, he taught Vipassana meditation to many local and foreign yogis. 

 

Sayadaw U Thuzana was born​ in 1954 in Indaw, Northern Myanmar. At age 12, he began practicing meditation awith his father, who later ordained as a monk as well.  After he obtained a degree in agricultural science in 1978, he ordained as a bhikkhu at Paṭhama Gandaryone monastery in Sagaing and studied scripture there for 12 years. By 1993, Sayadaw U Thuzana had become the spiritual head assistant at the Mahasi center in Sagaing and began his studies for the Dhammācariya diploma at the Visudayon monastery in Mandalay. He later practiced at the Paṇḍitārāma forest meditation centre near Bago, under the guidance of Sayadaw U Paṇḍita, before teaching meditation there.