abstract:Gyi is an honorific widely used daily in Myanmar (Burma) and in India. It has also been adopted in English and westerners can understand as well as use Sayagyi to refer to a Great Honorable Vipassana Chief Master.
Regrettably, one of his colleagues, Maung Maung Gyi (a 78-year-old MP-elect from Mon state, who was himself only recently released from 18 months' detention), told me at the NLD headquarters last week that Hla Kyi had been taken away by the military authorities on Sept. 27 and his whereabouts remain unknown.