Wubinya Winsa

Wubinya Winsa ( Chinese 伍并亚 • 温撒 , Pinyin Wubingya Wensa ; * November 1929 ; † October 18, 2002 ) from the Dai nationality was a Buddhist monk from the Theravada tradition and national politician. It comes from the county Ruili of Dehong in Yunnan . From 1958 to 1982 he spread Buddhism in Burma . He returned in 1983 and continued his duties as abbot of the Hansa Temple in Ruili and served as chairman of the Buddhist Society of Ruili. He was vice chairman of the Chinese Buddhist Society and a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference .

literature

Ling Haicheng: Buddhism in China , Beijing, China Intercontinental Press 2004, ISBN 7-5085-0535-2 (chin.) .
Takahiro Kojima: Tai Buddhist Practices in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan, China. 2012, Southeast Asian Studies 1 (3), 395-430 ( preview ; available online on March 11, 2014)
Kojima, Takahiro; Badenoch, Nathan: From Tea to Temples and Texts: Transformation of the Interfaces of Upland-Lowland Interaction on the China-Myanmar Border. 2013 Southeast Asian Studies (2013), 2 (1): 96-131 ( Online )

personal data
SURNAME	Wubinya Winsa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	伍并亚 • 温撒 (Chinese); Wubingya Wensa (Pinyin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chinese politician, Buddhist monk of the Theravada tradition
DATE OF BIRTH	November 1929
DATE OF DEATH	October 18, 2002