The author and how we found him
After having travelled through Burma, I and my girlfriend again met up with a burmese friend from whom we had borrowed the little booklet "Dhamma" and a few other books about buddhism. I told him that I was especially impressed of that just mentioned book, and would want to get a copy from somewhere. My friend suggested that we'd try in the bookshops of certain pagodas in northern Yangon and if we couldn't find it, go find the author.
After having looked through a few of the religious bookshops in the stairways of the pagodas, we learnt from one of the bookvendors which monestary the author lived in. It was rather near and as we arrived at the monestary and showed upstairs, a teacher there told us that the master was asleep. My brave friend hesitated only a few seconds before he woke the old venerable monk up, who welcomed us and saw to that we were served some tea. After half an hour of discussion about Dhamma, Myanmar and the reason that we had come to him, he gave us the two books he had written and encouraged us to make copies of them for interested friends. Later, I got the idea to put them both on the internet, and I hope that people will find them as "enlightening" as I do.
(I don't read Pali, but it seems that his whole name is Kaba-Aye Sayadaw Agga Maha Saddhamma Jotika Dhaja Bhaddanta Panna Dipa!)
This is from the cover to "Buddha Desana and Essential Principles for Enlightenment":
Sayadaw Bhaddanta Pañña Dipa is President of the World Buddhists Meditation Institute, Yangon, Myanmar. Sayadaw has travelled to USA, UK, former USSR and other European and Asian countries as a Buddhist Missionary for the propagation of the Dhamma.
He has attended many seminars and conferences on Buddhism in those countries and presented many papers.
This book is a collection of some of those papers on Buddha-Dhamma.
Sayadaw is well known for his untiring efforts for the propagation of the Buddha Sasana and also for his patience and kindness.
/ whitob