Ko-Nawin rosary
The Worthy One; the Perfectly Self-Awakened One; perfect in knowledge and conduct; the Well-Gone One; the Knower of worlds; the incomparable trainer of those to be tamed; teacher of gods and humans; the Awakened One; the Blessed One.
အရဟံ သမ္မာသမ္ဗုဒ္ဓေါ ဝိဇ္ဇာစရဏသမ္ပန္နော သုဂတော လောကဝိဒူ အနုတ္တရော ပုရိသဒမ္မသာရထိ သတ္ထာ ဒေဝမနုဿာနံ ဗုဒ္ဓေါ ဘဂဝါ
Arahaṃ Sammāsambuddho Vijjācaraṇasampanno Sugato Lokavidū Anuttaro purisadammasārathi Satthā devamanussānaṃ Buddho Bhagavā
The nine qualities of the Buddha, taken one at a time. Ko-Nawin (Burmese for 'nine-nine') is a devotional undertaking built on the itipi so formula, worked through over a long fixed period rather than recited as a single passage.
Source: Saṃyutta Nikāya 11.3 (qualities); Ko-Nawin schedule is a regional devotional variant
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အရဟံ သမ္မာသမ္ဗုဒ္ဓေါ ဝိဇ္ဇာစရဏသမ္ပန္နော သုဂတော လောကဝိဒူ အနုတ္တရော ပုရိသဒမ္မသာရထိ သတ္ထာ ဒေဝမနုဿာနံ ဗုဒ္ဓေါ ဘဂဝါ
Arahaṃ Sammāsambuddho Vijjācaraṇasampanno Sugato Lokavidū Anuttaro purisadammasārathi Satthā devamanussānaṃ Buddho Bhagavā
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What the words say
The nine epithets in order: arahaṃ, worthy; sammāsambuddho, perfectly self-awakened; vijjācaraṇasampanno, complete in knowledge and conduct; sugato, well-gone; lokavidū, knower of the world; anuttaro purisadammasārathi, unexcelled guide for those willing to be trained; satthā devamanussānaṃ, teacher of gods and humans; buddho, awakened; bhagavā, blessed. Pāli, written in Burmese letters.
Where it comes from
The nine qualities come from the Pāli recollection of the Buddha. A Burmese account published by Achawlaymyar on 3 July 2020 describes this 90-day schedule. It documents a regional devotional variant, not a universal rule or monastic endorsement; other Ko-Nawin schedules exist.
How it is practised
In the opening nine-day phase, count one repetition of one quality per tap: repeat each quality 108 times, for 972 repetitions across all nine. In later phases, repeat the phrase shown for that phase. This is the app’s chosen 90-day variant; follow your teacher’s instructions if they differ.
References
- Saṃyutta Nikāya 11.3 (Dhajagga Sutta), for the nine qualities
- Achawlaymyar, ဝါတွင်း (၃)လအတွက် ကိုးနဝင်းပုတီးစိပ်နည်း, 3 July 2020 (regional account)
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