Weikza-Lam and Vipassanā: The Relic Industry
The history of weikza-lam is dark. The term weikza-do is a Burmese corruption of the Pāli, vijjā-dhara, a word that is in the Jātakas where it simply refers to a magician or maker of wonders without any soteriological significance. In Burmese literature the term only began to take religious connotations in the nineteenth century with the figure of Bo Bo Aung.Prior to that, the weikza-do was a common character in Burmese legends and in stories attributed to the zawgyi or Burme