Vasipake Sayadaw information

Bhaddanta Vimala Ashin
Kovida
Bhaddanta Vimala Ashin Kovida
ကောဝိဒ
Personal
Born	14 May 1957 (age 67)
Religion	Buddhism
Denomination	Theravada
Dharma names	Kovida
Organization
Temple	Thiladhamma Gonethar Tawya Monastery, Keng Tung

Bhaddanta Vimala Ashin Kovida (Burmese: ကောဝိဒ; born 14 May 1957), best known as Vasipake Sayadaw (Burmese: ဝစီပိတ်ဆရာတော်), is a Burmese Buddhist monk, astrologer and occult practitioner.^[1] He is believed to be the Senior General Min Aung Hlaing's chief astrological adviser.^[2] He is famous for his vow of silence. Vasipake played a major role in the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.^[3]

^ "တာချီလိတ်မြို့ မဟာမြတ်မုနိဆရာတော်၏ အန္တိမအဂ္ဂဈာပနအတွက် ဝစီပိတ်ဆရာတော် ဦးဆောင်၍ ဆပ်ကော်မတီများ၏ လုပ်ငန်းညှိနှိုင်းဆွေးနွေး". Tachileik News Agency (in Burmese). 22 October 2019. Archived from the original on 10 June 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
^ Combs, Daniel (26 January 2022). "Guns, gems and drugs: One year after Myanmar's coup, how the generals hold power". The Messenger. Archived from the original on June 5, 2023.
^ "More Than Meets the Eye: Myanmar Junta Leader's Renovation of Pagoda". The Irrawaddy. 20 December 2021. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 21 December 2021.

[:0-1] "တာချီလိတ်မြို့ မဟာမြတ်မုနိဆရာတော်၏ အန္တိမအဂ္ဂဈာပနအတွက် ဝစီပိတ်ဆရာတော် ဦးဆောင်၍ ဆပ်ကော်မတီများ၏ လုပ်ငန်းညှိနှိုင်းဆွေးနွေး". Tachileik News Agency (in Burmese). 22 October 2019. Archived from the original on 10 June 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2021.

[2] Combs, Daniel (26 January 2022). "Guns, gems and drugs: One year after Myanmar's coup, how the generals hold power". The Messenger. Archived from the original on June 5, 2023.

[z-3] "More Than Meets the Eye: Myanmar Junta Leader's Renovation of Pagoda". The Irrawaddy. 20 December 2021. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 21 December 2021.