It was the 33rd annual meeting and was held in Kyaitmayaw Pagoda Temple . About 300 hundred monks from various states and divisions attended the meet.

According to a decision taken at the meeting the union will hold a weeklong examination for all Mon monks on February 26 2006. The examination will be over a period of five days and the union will award graduate certificates to the monks after it is over.

The monks elected a new advisory board. In the board five abbots have been involved and is led by Ajar Vi-Ra-Vay-Ra-Linkara, the head of monastic association in Moulmein from Su-kha-rae-mae temple.

Abbot Aeandaeka, from Chung-zoe was elected chairperson and abbot Soi-lae-sar-ra from Moulmein , abbot Uttara from Taranar village became vice and third chairpersons, respectively.

Fourteen abbots from different states and divisions were elected to the working committee and two abbots were elected as special advisors.

Rae Mon Nya Ni Kar Ya Mon monk union was founded more than 30 years ago, after the Gen-Ne-Win ruled government banned monks taking examinations in the Mon language in the government run examination for Buddhist teaching. Gen Ne- Win's government forced Mon monks to take examinations in Burmese. But major Mon monks disagreed and founded the union which runs by it self to conduct examinations.

Currently the union has more than 8,000 monks' members and the union holds Buddha teaching examinations in Mon languages annually for more than 800 monks.

Source: imna