Myanmar Dhamma Studies

A series of classes conducted in Burmese is available at Mangala Vihara every weekend, mostly focused on Abhidhamma. Mangala Vihara has been a recognised examination centre since 2012 for the Abhidhamma examinations held by the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Myanmar.

Abhidhamma classes

Level 1

Venerable Cakkapāla · Every Sunday, 6.00–7.30pm · Chew Quee Neo Hall, Level 2 · Reference: Abhidhammatthasaṅgaha of Ācariya Anuruddha

The course covers the Compendium of Consciousness (the classification of the 89 or 121 types of citta); the Compendium of Mental Factors (the fifty-two cetasikas, in four classes, with the methods of association and inclusion); the Compendium of the Miscellaneous (consciousness classified by root, feeling, function, door, object and base); the Compendium of the Cognitive Process; the Compendium of the Process-freed, with a survey of Buddhist cosmology and the rebirth process; and the Compendium of Matter, ending with a brief description of Nibbāna.

Level 2 · online

U Soe Ko Ko Htet · Every Sunday, 2.00–3.30pm · Room 7, Level 3 · Reference: Abhidhammatthasaṅgaha of Ācariya Anuruddha

A condensed but detailed analytical and philosophical treatment of the whole field — consciousness, mental factors, the cognitive process, the process-freed, the categories of ultimate realities, conditionality and meditation subjects — drawing on the Abhidhammatthavibhāvinī, considered the most profound and reliable commentary on the Abhidhammatthasaṅgaha.

Level 3

U Soe Ko Ko Htet · Every Sunday, 4.00–5.30pm · Room 1, Level 3 · Reference: Abhidhammatthasaṅgaha of Ācariya Anuruddha

The Compendium of Categories (the ultimate realities arranged under defilements, mixed categories, the requisites of enlightenment, and an all-inclusive survey); the Compendium of Conditionality (the inter-relatedness of physical and mental phenomena, examined through the cause-and-result pattern that maintains bondage to saṃsāra); and the Compendium of Meditation Subjects, surveying the methods of meditation and the stages of progress in concentration and insight.

Advanced Abhidhamma

Daw Htet Htet Aung · Every Saturday, 7.30–9.00pm · Reference: Abhidhammatthavibhāvinī-ṭīkā of Ācariya Sumaṅgalasāmi

Visuddhimagga classes

Levels 1 & 2

Daw Myint Myint Aung · Every Sunday, 4.00–5.30pm · Room 7, Level 3 · Reference: Visuddhimagga of Ācariya Buddhaghosa

The Description of Virtue and the Ascetic Practices; taking a meditation subject; the earth and remaining kasiṇas; foulness as a subject; the recollections; the Divine Abidings and the Immaterial States; nutriment and the elements; the supernormal powers and direct knowledges; and the aggregates, bases, elements, faculties and truths.

Level 3

Venerable Cakkapāla · Every Sunday, 4.00–5.30pm · Room 1, Level 3 · Reference: Visuddhimagga of Ācariya Buddhaghosa

Dependent Origination; the Purification of View; the Purification by Overcoming Doubt; the Purifications by Knowledge and Vision of the Path, the Way, and finally the fruit; and the benefits of developing understanding.

Upcoming

• 28 July 2026 — Vassa (Vassa invitation)
• 9 August 2026 — Piṇḍapāta at Mangala Vihara
• 27 August 2026 — Seventh-month transference of merits