Kaba Aye Sun Lun Monastery

Kaba Aye Sun Lun Monastery, which also calls itself the Kaba Aye Sun Lun Meditation Centre, is the Yangon centre of the Sunlun method, which works with touch and bodily sensation and uses strong, sustained effort. The method comes from Sun Lun Gu Kyaung Sayadaw U Kavi of Myingyan. The monastery stands at the 7th Mile of Thanlarwaddy Road, on U Lun Maung Street in Mayangone Township. As of October 2026 its website's meditation camp schedule lists it as one of three locations, with dates to be announced. Under the monastery's rules, yogis who stay join three two-hour group sittings a day in the hall, in the morning, early afternoon and evening, and sit on a thin mat or thin towel rather than a cushion or thick blanket. Breakfast and lunch are served in the dining hall, men and women sleep in separate dormitories, and yogis need the presiding Sayadaw's permission to go out. The rules also set a dress code for the hall. The monastery had Sun Lun Sayadaw's biography and discourses translated into English after repeated requests from foreign yogis who had practised there, and its website offers material in Burmese, English and Chinese.

How to apply

Contact the Kaba Aye Sun Lun Monastery in Yangon before you go. Its website gives no fixed course dates, and residents follow the monastery's written rules.

What is taught here

A Burmese method of strong, rapid breathing and a fixed posture, then close attention to bodily sensation, above all pain, without mental labels. Read about Sunlun.