Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinations
Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Examinations, Mahapasana Guha Cave, Yangon | |
| Type | Monastic examinations |
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| Administrator | Tipitakadhara Tipitaka Kovida Selection Examination Board, Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture (Myanmar) |
| Skills tested | five levels of reciting (Tipiṭakadhara) five levels of idea by writing (Tipiṭakakovida) |
| Duration | 33 days– from last week of December to third week of January |
| Offered | once a year |
| Regions | Myanmar |
| Languages | Burmese |
| Website | mahana dra |
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The Tipiṭakadhara Tipiṭakakovida Selection Examinations (Burmese: တိပိဋကဓရ တိပိဋကကောဝိဒ ရွေးချယ်ရေး စာမေးပွဲ) are the highest-level monastic examinations held annually in Burma since 1948, organized by the Ministry of Religious Affairs. It tests the candidates' memory of Tripiṭaka (or "Three Baskets") both in oral (five levels) and in written components (five levels). The examinations require candidates to display their mastery of "doctrinal understanding, textual discrimination, taxonomic grouping and comparative philosophy of Buddhist doctrine." A Sayadaw who has passed all levels of the examinations is often referred as the Sutabuddha (lit. 'The Buddha of Knowledge').