What is U Ottama?
{{Infobox religious biography |honorific-prefix = [[Sayadaw]] [[Burmese names#Honorifics|U]] |native_name = {{my|ဆရာတော် ဦးဥတ္တမ <!---UNICODE ENCODING, DO NOT CONVERT TO ZAWGYI-->}} |dharma_name = {{IAST|Uttama}} |image = Ven.Ottama.png |caption = |birth_name = Paw Tun Aung |birth_date = 28 December 1879 <br/> 1st waning of [[Pyatho]] 1241 [[Burmese calendar|ME]] |birth_place = Rupa Village, [[Sittwe District]], [[Rakhine State|Arakan Division]], [[British Burma]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|1939|09|09|1879|12|28|df=y}} <br/> 11th waning of [[Wagaung]] 1301 ME |death_place = [[Yangon]], [[Yangon Region|Pegu Division]], [[British Burma]] |nationality = [[Rakhine people|Arakanese]] |religion = [[Buddhism]] |school = [[Theravada]] |lineage = |title = [[Sayadaw]] |location = [[Shwezedi Monastery]], [[Sittwe]] |education = |occupation = [[bhikkhu|Buddhist monk]] |teacher = |predecessor = |successor = |students = |website = }} '''[[Sayadaw]] U Ottama''' ({{lang-my|ဆရာတော် ဦးဥတ္တမ<!---UNICODE ENCODING, DO NOT CONVERT TO ZAWGYI-->}} {{IPA-my|sʰəjàdɔ̀ ʔú ʔoʊʔdəma̰|}}; also '''U Uttama''' ({{lang-pi|{{IAST|'''Uttama'''}}}}); 28 December 1879&nbsp;– 9 September 1939) was a [[Theravada Buddhist]] monk, author, and a leader of the Burmese independence movement during [[British Burma|British colonial rule]]. The ethnic [[Rakhine people|Rakhine (Arakanese)]] monk was imprisoned several times by the British colonial government for his anti-colonialist political activities.<ref>{{cite book | author=Ba Yin | title=Sayadaw U Ottama: Sower of Seed of Independence Movement | year=2007 | language=Burmese | location=Yangon | page = 116}}</ref> He is considered a national hero in modern [[Myanmar]]. == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Buddhist monks]] [[Category:Burmese activists]] [[Category:1879 births]] [[Category:1939 deaths]] {{bio-stub}}