Pyi Phyo Kyaw

Biography

Pyi Kyaw (pronounced “Pyé Jaw”) is currently a Research Associate in Abhidhamma Meditation at King’s College London. She specialises in Burmese Buddhism, Abhidhamma and meditation, Buddhist business practices, and Buddhist Diaspora in the U.K. She has extensive fieldwork experience in Burma, and has translated Burmese writings on meditation and biographies of Burmese meditation masters into English. She has given talks on historical and current textual and practice aspects of Theravada Buddhism including Abhidhamma, Buddha worship and Buddhist pedagogy. She has also undertaken intensive meditation practice within different meditation traditions for the past 10 years, and monastic training in Myanmar as a precept-nun in nunneries based at Pyay (formerly Prome) in 2007 and Sagaing in 2012. She has received traditional Abhidhamma training from experts in Abhidhamma studies from Burma for the past 4 years. She studied BA in Economics and Management at Oxford University from 2004 to 2008. She completed MA in Buddhist Studies at SOAS in 2010. She has recently completed PhD in Buddhist Studies from King’s College London.    Pyi Kyaw (pronounced “Pyé Jaw”) is currently a Research Associate in Abhidhamma Meditation at King’s College London. She specialises in Burmese Buddhism, Abhidhamma and meditation, Buddhist business practices, and Buddhist Diaspora in the U.K. She has extensive fieldwork experience in Burma, and has translated Burmese writings on meditation and biographies of Burmese meditation masters into English. She has given talks on historical and current textual and practice aspects of Theravada Buddhism including Abhidhamma, Buddha worship and Buddhist pedagogy. She has also undertaken intensive meditation practice within different meditation traditions for the past 10 years, and monastic training in Myanmar as a precept-nun in nunneries based at Pyay (formerly Prome) in 2007 and Sagaing in 2012. She has received traditional Abhidhamma training from experts in Abhidhamma studies from Burma for the past 4 years. She studied BA in Economics and Management at Oxford University from 2004 to 2008. She completed MA in Buddhist Studies at SOAS in 2010. She has recently completed PhD in Buddhist Studies from King’s College London.   

Research Interest

"• Burmese Buddhism • Abhidhamma (Theravada Analytical Philosophy) • Buddhist Economics, especially Buddhist microeconomics • Buddhist Meditation • Traditional Buddhist pedagogy"