Recommended books for Weizzar Lan practitioners

[Benyamin Sheppard]

[editor's note: This was copied from Kyaw Myaing's original Post on the original weizzar.com discussion forum]

Dear Wisdom seekers,

I wish to post here a few books that might come handy for all of you who are Weizzar Lan practitioners (Wisdom seekers).

1. Bo Bo Aung Kyint Hnint Zin (Bo Bo Aung and his practice). (Author: Saya U Pe Khin; Printed by Thaung Printing Press; 140 Bogyoke Street; Yangon, Myanmar; 1949 - first printing : 1000 copies)
2. Popa Hma Kye Nout To Thi Thaw Bo Min Gaung (The Bo Min Gaung from Popa that we know). (Author: Ashin Kaweinda; Publisher - information not available on the book).
   

The above-mentioned book may be bought in Myanmar.

Metta,

Kyaw Myaing
Founder - Weizzar.com
http://www.weizzar.com

[Benyamin Sheppard]

[editor's note: This was copied from Tom's original Post on the original weizzar.com discussion forum]

• John P. Ferguson and E. Michael Mendelson. "Masters of the Buddhist Occult: The Burmese Weikzas." in Contributions to Asian Studies Vol. 16, 1981.
• E. Michael Mendelson. "A Messianic Buddhist Association in Upper Burma." in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 24, 1961.

I have the second article on PDF and can send it to anyone who is interested. By the way, is there any way for me to post articles, such as these, on this website? Can I post them in the "wisdom portal" for example?

[Benyamin Sheppard]

Tom,

If you reply to this email just as you normally reply to any email, you may attach your PDF to your reply and send it.  The attachment will become available for download in the web version of your post on Google Groups as well as everyone subscribed getting a copy in their in box!  We can also post to the main website as well however...  I will post instructions about that later...

metta,
Benyamin Sheppard
Co Founder - weizzar.com
http://www.weizzar.com

[Benyamin Sheppard]

[editor's note: This was copied from Kyaw Myaing's original Post on the original weizzar.com discussion forum]

Dear Tom,

Thanks for joining this forum and thanks for your offer to send the pdf version of the article.

Can you send the pdf version to me.

You can post articles. All you need to do is to send an email to the webmaster Ben Sheppard and he will set you up so that you can post articles in the future automatically without any further steps.

I have recently read an article in the Burmese magazine called "Nay La Journal" which says that in the olden days there are a university in the province of Gandhara which is now partly in Pakistan and maybe partly in Afghanistan.

Any way, it is said in this article that there was once a hermit or a master of all the weizzar arts (Weizzar Pyinnya) and his name was called Gandhara. Later his disciples came to be known as the Gandhari Weizzars. At least that is one story.

The other story is that because this place of learning or university was located in the Gandhara province, the learning itself came to be known as the Gandhari weizzar path (here weizzar meaning just learning or knowledge).

Thus Aba Bo Bo Aung and Aba Bo Min Gaung called themselves Gandhari weizzar of the Pathaman gaing. I have asked the meaning of Pathaman to a friend of mine who is knowledgeable in this field and he told me that Pathaman comes from the Sanskrit and Pali word Patama - which means "first". So these Weizzars regard themselves as the Pathfinders or Pioneers in this field.

We must realize that the Weizzar path is based on Buddhist philosophy and all the knowledge accumulated in various fields of learning.

I think you will enjoy the articles that appear regularly in the Nay La Journal and the Manaw Maya Journal published by Saya Gyi Min Theinkha.

Best of luck in your practice and hope to see you soon.

Best regards,
Kyaw Myaing