Bhikkhu Ratthasara

Shin Ratthasara was born in 1468 in the kingdom of Ava and became a Buddhist monk of its capital. He put many jataka, accounts of the Buddha's past lives, into Burmese verse, and had them recited, which his fellow monks held against him: the religious chroniclers have kept him apart from the line of the ancients, on the grounds that singing and recitation broke the monastic rule. A rival of another great monk poet of the court, he died in 1529 or 1530, at around sixty years of age.

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• Poetryကိုးခန့်ပျို့Bhikkhu Ratthasara · 1523not translated into EnglishLiterature