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Bhaddanta Vijjota Mahā Thera (Burmese: ဘဒ္ဒန္တဝိဇ္ဇောတမဟာထေရ်; 5 March 1930 – 20 March 2022), commonly known as Vijjotārum Sayadaw (also Vijjotāyon Sayadaw; Burmese: ဝိဇ္ဇောတာရုံဆရာတော်), was a Burmese Buddhist monk. He was the 15th Thathanabaing (the equivalent of the Supreme Patriarch) and Mahanayaka of the Shwekyin Nikaya of Myanmar, from 2017 to his death in 2022. Chief abbot of Vijjotāyon Pariyatti Monastery in Mayangon Township, the mahathera was a State Ovādācariya Sayadaw (lit. 'Guiding acariya of the country').