Kyaikhtisaung Sayadaw

[1] After working for three years as a driver mechanic, Aung Nyein married Hnin Myaing, the daughter of an auto parts shop owner.

[2] Beginning in the summer of 1963, Aung Nyein began to study occult science from Manomaya Saya Khine.

[3] From 1966 to 1968, Aung Nyein kept his hair long, remained barefoot, and wore traditional white clothes to associate himself as a mystic seeker.

[4] In 1969, Aung Nyein made a decision to continue his practices in the future and arranged for the living of his family.

After the third phase was complete, he was known as the Hermit Naga Weizza Bho Sacca or Recluse Nagavijja Bothitsa.

On the 1st Waxing Day of Kason 1333 ME, he was fully ordained to monkhood at 7:50 am on Thursday (25 April 1971) at Khanda Sima (ordination hall).

His father San Pe and mother Saw Kyin were present and supported him by providing his four requisites: clothing, food, shelter, and medicine.

[7] For the next forty years, he set about restoring nine sacred pagodas throughout Myanmar, each claimed to contain preserved hair from Gautama Buddha.

It is said that Buddha himself mentioned this in a prophecy when he gave strands of his hair to hermits and belus during a trip to the area.

He provided free vegetarian meals to those who assisted in the restoration projects, guests from afar, and anyone who was seeking shelter at the pagoda for religious study.

[11] In 2013, Myanmar Tycoon Khin Shwe worked together with the Kyaikhtisaung Sayadaw to try to raise the Dhammazedi Bell from the Yangon River.

[12][13] Ashin Pannadipa was given the title "Agga Maha Saddhammajotikadhaja" by the Myanmar Ministry of Religious Affairs in 1992 in recognition of his service.

[14] In May 2014, when he was eighty-six years old, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Buddhist Studies by the Mahachulalongkon Rajavidyalaya University in Thailand.

[15] The Kyaikhtisaung Sayadaw died on 25 July 2015 at the age of 87 at Yangon's 1000-bed military hospital in Mingaladon Township.