Ashin Sandadika

Ashin Sandadika (, Pali: Chandādhika) is a prominent Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk and writer.

Biography Ashin Sandadika was born on 9 January 1968 in Myazeinyaung Thahtaygon ward, Yenangyaung, Magwe Division to parents U Sein Win and Thein Thein. He matriculated from high school in 1984 with distinctions in all 6 subjects, with a score ranking him second in the country.

After graduating high school, he forsook medical school and instead ordained into Mahagandhayon Monastery, a well-known monastery based in Amarapura, to study the Pitaka.

In recent years, he was led interfaith dialogue in Myanmar. In 2013, in the aftermath of 2013 Burma anti-Muslim riots in Meiktila, he criticized the use of the 69 symbol by the 969 Movement.

Ashin Sandadika endorsed a petition in 2014 to revise Section 436 of the Constitution of Burma, which would remove the military's automatic bloc veto on constitutional change, by reducing the veto threshold for amendments from 75% to 70% majority.