Phoe Ta Khit
Phoe Ta Khit | |
|---|---|
| ဖိုးတခေတ် | |
| Born | Saw Kyaw Hla Than 7 December 1977 |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Alma mater | University of Distance Education, Yangon |
| Occupation(s) | hermit, shaman |
| Parent(s) | Saw Hla Tin Nan Aye Tin |
Phoe Ta Khit (Burmese: ဖိုးတခေတ်, also spelt Pho Ta Khit; born Saw Kyaw Hla Than on 7 December 1977) was a Karen hermit, shaman, spiritual leader and mystic known for his works on "Phoe Ta Khit religious movement" and Buddhist religious buildings in a remote corner of Hpa-An, Kayin State, Myanmar.[1][2][3]
Early life
[edit]Phoe Ta Khit was born on 7 December 1978 in Kawmahnote village, Hpa-An, Kayin State to parents Saw Hla Tin and his wife Nan Aye Tin of a Karen ethnic family. He is the second son of four siblings. He graduated in BA Law from University of Distance Education, Yangon in 2014.[4]
Hermit life and religious movements
[edit]Saw Kyaw Hla Than became a hermit at 17 years old. His works on Karen maintain cultural traditions, Phoe Ta Khit religious movement and Buddhist religious buildings in a remote corner of Hpa-An, Kayin State. Phoe Ta Khit rules over 500 people who believe in his powers as a shaman. He believes that he has a connection with the spirits of the past eight monarchs, each of them one of his previous existences. Everyday life in the village and barely above the subsistence level is entirely organised by Phoe Ta Khit, the eccentric and the supernatural, others believe people respect to Phoe Ta Khit as a spiritual leader. During the Karen new year, he is one of the leaders of organizing the ceremony. On the third day of the ceremony he went around the village riding the ox cart to meet the worshipers. Some Karen People believe that a touch of "Phoe Ta Khit" can heal any kind of illness and diseases and crowded to meet with him.[4][5]
During Phoe Ta Khit Birthday Festival, local villages in Kayin State and Mon State, Bago Region of other ethnic tribes come festival annual visit to a population of about 7000 people usually celebrate.[6][7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ "ကရင်ရွာမှ ပဟေဠိလူသား". 7Day News (in Burmese). 31 December 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
- ^ "ဆတ်လှည်းယာဉ်ဖြင့် ကျင်းပသည့် ဖိုးတခေတ်ရဲ့ တမူထူးခြား မွေးနေ့ပွဲ (ရုပ်သံ)". Democratic Voice of Burma (in Burmese). 10 December 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
- ^ "ဂျိုင်တံတား အနီးက ဖိုးတခေတ်မွေးနေ့ပွဲ". 7Day Tv YouTube. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ a b "ဖုန်းကင်မရာ၊ ဗီဒီယို ကင်မရာ၊ ဖေ့စ်ဘွတ်ခ်၊ အင်တာနက်တွေကို မသုံးပါဘူးဆိုတဲ့ ဖူ့တခေတ် (ခ) ဖိုးတခေတ် Interview". Tomorrow News Journal. 22 January 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
- ^ "ခေတ်ဟောင်းမှာ ကျန်ခဲ့တဲ့ ဖိုးတခေတ် (သို့မဟုတ်) ကရင်အမျိုးသား ရွာကလေး". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 28 April 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
- ^ "ကရင်ကိုယ်တော်လေး ဖိုးတခေတ်၏ မွေးနေ့ပွဲတော် ရက်သတ္တပတ်ကျော်ကြာ ကျင်းပမည်". KIC News (in Burmese). 9 December 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
- ^ "ဖိုးတခေတ်၏ မွေးနေ့ အခမ်းအနား". 7Day News. 21 December 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
- ^ "ကရင်ကိုယ်တော်လေး ဖိုးတခေတ်၏ ၂၂ကြိမ်မြောက်မွေးနေ့ပွဲ ကျင်းပပြီးစီး". mmdaily News (in Burmese). Retrieved 23 September 2017.