Vasipake Sayadaw

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has been his follower since 2006, when he was serving as the commander of the Myanmar military's Triangle Region, which oversees eastern Shan State.

He was following in the footsteps of some of Myanmar's most powerful political figures including his predecessor, Senior General Than Shwe.

Seeing the pictures of the monk he venerates attached to htamein, Min Aung Hlaing ordered his troops to take the women's garments down and publicly announced in his state-run newspapers that anyone committing the act would be charged with insulting Buddhism.

[5][8] On 18 December 2021, together with Min Aung Hlaing, he placed a new diamond orb, the highest part of Kyaik Devi Pagoda built by a Mon King centuries ago.

Given the presence of his astrological adviser, Burmese people naturally conclude the aim of the ceremony, in which the general breathed new life into the ancient temple, was seek divine blessings to sustain Min Aung Hlaing's rule in the country.