Shin Uttamagyaw

Shin Uttamagyaw, a Buddhist monk and poet of the Ava period, was born in 1453 and died in 1542, aged eighty-nine. He composed his work at the monastery of Taungdwingyi, despite the disapproval of his superior. A contemporary of the great monk-poets of the court, who made the lives of the Buddha the main subject of the poetry of their time, he left only a single poem, and it is through it that his name has remained in the history of Burmese letters.

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• PoetryTawlaShin Uttamagyaw · 1500not translated into EnglishLiterature