Setkya Min

Pe Khin
မောင်ဖေခင်
Statue of Setkya Min
Heir Apparent of Burma[1]
Prince of Nyaungyan
Reign1819 – 1837
SuccessorTharrawaddy Min
BornMaung Pe Khin
(1812-10-27)27 October 1812
Mingun
Died15 April 1838(1838-04-15) (aged 25)
Amarapura
SpouseShwetantin Princess
IssueMe Tin Gyi
Regnal name
Mahāsīhasūra Dhammarāja
HouseKonbaung
FatherBagyidaw
MotherHsinbyume
ReligionTheravada Buddhism

Maha Thiha Thura Dhammaraja (Burmese: မဟာသီဟသူရဓမ္မရာဇာ, Pali: Mahāsīhasūra dhammarājā; born Pe Khin; 27 October 1812 – 4 April 1839), commonly known as Setkya Min (Burmese: စကြာမင်း Chakravarti) or the Prince of Nyaungyan (Burmese: ညောင်ရမ်းမင်းသား), was an heir apparent of Burma[2] and son of King Bagyidaw and his consort Hsinbyume.[3][4] He is worshipped as a weizza along with Bo Bo Aung.[5]

  1. ^ Sivaraksa, Sulak (1993). Buddhist Perception for Desirable Societies in the Future: Papers Prepared for the United Nations University. Thai Inter-Religious Commission for Development, Sathirakoses-Nagapradipa Foundation.
  2. ^ Tarling, Nicholas; Nicholas, Tarling (1992). The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: Volume 2, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-35506-3.
  3. ^ Crosby, Kate; Pranke, Patrick; Schober, Juliane; Foxeus, Niklas; Tosa, Keiko; Patton, Thomas; Coderey, Celine; Collins, Steven (14 May 2014). Champions of Buddhism: Weikza Cults in Contemporary Burma. NUS Press. ISBN 978-9971-69-780-8.
  4. ^ Mendelson, E. Michael (1961). "A Messianic Buddhist Association in Upper Burma". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 24 (3): 560–580. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00092235. JSTOR 609765. S2CID 161486634.
  5. ^ "ဘိုးတော်ဘုရားအလွန် နှစ် ၂ဝဝ". BBC News (in Burmese). 19 June 2019.