Venerable U Gawsita was born in Pegu Division of Burma in 1979 and was ordained as novice at the age of 12.
From 2005 to 2007, he studied Buddhism his study at Meggin Monastery in Rangoon where he became one of the leading monks of Saffron Revolution. Following the protests, almost all his fellow monks from Maggin Monastery were arrested. The monastery, a religious center as well as a sanctuary for HIV/AIDS patients and orphans, was closed and the eighty-year old Senior Abbot was forcibly relocated to a remote monastery hundreds of miles from Rangoon.
Since then, U Gawsita has found asylum in the United States and has testified
before Congress and met with many political leaders speaking on behalf
of those facing oppression in Burma.
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