Vipassanā (III). The fraud

Ledi Sayadaw (1846-1923) is considered the founder of the vipassanā movement as it is known today. This movement began to merge only after the British conquest of the Burmese kingdom in 1885. Ledi Sayadaw wrote numerous vernacular manuals on Abhidhamma and vipassanā beginning in the 1890s, and using the printing press, published widely to promote literacy…