These are some pictures of Ahba from old. They are slides made in Myanmar around 1978, taken by Jaap and Maria Guijt.
You can see pictures of Ahba in his monastery in Yangon, an inauguration of land in the monastery, a dhamma-talk by Ahba and some general pictures with Buddhist content of Myanmar from that time.
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