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| Birthday |
20th January, 1871
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| Died |
11th May, 1932
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| Zodiac Sign |
Capricorn
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| Music Genre (Text) |
Buddhist Abhidhamma
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U Shwe Zan Aung (Burmese: ရွှေဇံအောင်; 20 January 1871 – 11 May 1932) was a Rakhine scholar, translator and civil servant from Myanmar, who first introduced the Theravada Abhidhamma (Buddhist philosophy) texts to the Western world. He was the first to translate the ancient Buddhist Abhidhamma texts into English. While working as a highly respected officer in the British colonial administration in Burma, he scholar studied Buddhist teachings in depth and began publishing articles in both Burmese and English in Buddhism Magazine and the Journal of the Burma Research Society.
