The Burmese government recognizes Buddhist monks who have successfully passed the Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinations as "Sāsana Azani" (သာသနာ့အာဇာနည်), from Pali Sāsanājāneyya (lit. 'Noble Hero of the Buddhist doctrine').[1] Since the examination's initial inception in 1948, only 15 monks have been recognized as "Sāsana Azani" as of 2020[update].[2][3] Sasana Azani monks are bestowed the following titles: Tipiṭakadhara (Bearer of the "Spoken Tipitaka") and Tipiṭakakovida (Bearer of the "Written Tipitaka").
As of 2020[update], monks recognized as "Sāsana Azani" include:
| Common title | Monastic name | Name in Burmese | Location of study | City | Pass year (CE) | Pass year (ME) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mingun Sayadaw | Vicittasārabhivaṃsa | ဘဒ္ဒန္တဝိစိတ္တသာရဘိဝံသ | Mingun Dhammanāda Monastery | Sagaing | 1953 | 1315 |
| Pakokku Sayadaw | Neminda | ဘဒ္ဒန္တနေမိန္ဒ | Mahāvisutārāma Dhamma Vimāna Monastery | Mawlamyaing | 1959 | 1321 |
| Pyay Sayadaw | Kosalla | ဘဒ္ဒန္တကောသလ္လ | Pañcanikāya Monastery | Yangon | 1963 | 1325 |
| Mahāgandhayon Sayadaw | Sumaṅgalālaṅkāra | ဘဒ္ဒန္တသုမင်္ဂလာလင်္ကာရ | Tipiṭaka Mahāgandhārāma Monastery | Mayangon Township, Yangon | 1973 | 1335 |
| Yaw Sayadaw | Sirindābhivaṃsa | ဘဒ္ဒန္တသိရိန္ဒာဘိဝံသ | Mahāvisuddhārāma Shwegyin Monastery | Bahan Township, Yangon | 1984 | 1346 |
| Yesagyo Sayadaw | Vāyāmindābhivaṃsa | ဘဒ္ဒန္တဝါယာမိန္ဒာဘိဝံသ | Tipiṭaka Mahāgantavaṃsa Nikāya Monastery | East Dagon Township, Yangon | 1995 | 1356 |
| Mawgyun Sayadaw | Sīlakkhandhābhivaṃsa | ဘဒ္ဒန္တသီလက္ခန္ဓာဘိဝံသ | Three Piṭakas Nikāya Monastery | South Dagon Township, Yangon | 1999 | 1361 |
| Myinmu Sayadaw | Vaṃsapālāsaṅkāra | ဘဒ္ဒန္တဝံသပါလာသင်္ကာရ | Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery | Sagaing | 1999 | 1361 |
| Myingyan Sayadaw | Gandhamālaṅkāra | ဘဒ္ဒန္တဂန္ဓမာလင်္ကာရ | Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery | Sagaing | 2000 | 1362 |
| Sunlun Sayadaw | Sundara | ဘဒ္ဒန္တသုန္ဒရ | Sunlun Guvipassanā Monastery | Thingangyun Township, Yangon | 2004 | 1365 |
| Rammāvatī Sayadaw | Indapāla | ဘဒ္ဒန္တဣန္ဒပါလ | Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery | Sagaing | 2004 | 1365 |
| Sagaing Sayadaw | Abhijātābhivaṃsa | ဘဒ္ဒန္တအဘိဇာတာဘိဝံသ | Mahāsubodhārāsma Monastery | Sagaing | 2010 | 1371 |
| Butalin Sayadaw | Indacariya | ဘဒ္ဒန္တဣန္ဒစရိယ | Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery | Sagaing | 2012 | 1373 |
| Kambhoja Sayadaw | Viriyānanda | ဘဒ္ဒန္တဝိရိယာနန္ဒ | Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery | Dagon Township, Yangon | 2017 | 1378 |
| Kyaukpadaung Sayadaw | Paññāvaṃsābhivaṃsa | ဘဒ္ဒန္တပညာဝံသာဘိဝံသ | Tipiṭaka Mahāgantavaṃsa Nikāya Monastery | East Dagon Township, Yangon | 2020 | 1381 |
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