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Ajahn Chah
Biography
Venerable Ajahn Chah was born on June 17, 1918 in a small village near the town of Ubon Ratchathani, North-East Thailand. After finishing his basic schooling, he spent three years as a novice before returning to lay life to help his parents on the farm. At the age of twenty, however, he decided to resume monastic life, and on April 26, 1939 he received upasampadā (bhikkhu ordination). Ajahn Chah’s early monastic life followed a traditional pattern, of studying Buddhist teachings and the Pali scriptural language. In his fifth year his father fell seriously ill and died, a blunt reminder of the frailty and precariousness of human life. It caused him to think deeply about life’s real purpose, for although he had studied extensively and gained some proficiency in Pali, he seemed no nearer to a personal understanding of the end of suffering. Feelings of disenchantment set in, and finally, in 1946 he abandoned his studies and set off on mendicant pilgrimage.
He walked some 400 km to Central Thailand, sleeping in forests and gathering almsfood i
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Inspired by this teacher’s example, many monks in early twentieth century Thailand abandoned sedentary lives of study to wander the forest as the Buddha had, practicing strictly in line with the Vinaya — the Buddhist code of monastic discipline — and single-mindedly pursuing meditation as a path to the realization of truth. Desiring to find the real essence of the Buddha’s teachings, Ajahn Chah followed the example of such wandering monks. He spent the following eight years of his life searching out remote wilderness areas and practicing meditation under various teachers of the tradition, including Venerable Ajahn Mun himself.
After many arduous years of travel and practice, Ajahn Chah was invited to settle in a thick forest grove, known as a dwelling place of tigers, cobras, and spirits, near the village of his birth. The monastery that eventually grew up there came to be known as Wat Nong Pah Pong. The conditions were difficult and the basic living requisites scarce. Out of faith and loyalty to their teacher, Ajahn Chah, the monks and nuns willingly endured these myriad har
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Ajahn Chah
Thai Buddhist monk (1918–1992)
Ajahn Chah (17 June 1918 – 16 January 1992) was a Thai Buddhist monk. He was an influential teacher of the Buddhadhamma and a founder of two major monasteries in the Thai Forest Tradition.
Respected and loved in his own country as a man of great wisdom, he was also instrumental in establishing Theravada Buddhism in the West. Beginning in 1979 with the founding of Cittaviveka (commonly known as Chithurst Buddhist Monastery)[1] in the United Kingdom, the Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah has spread throughout Europe, the United States and the British Commonwealth. The dhamma talks of Ajahn Chah have been recorded, transcribed and translated into several languages.
More than one million people, including the Thai royal family, attended Ajahn Chah's funeral in January 1993[2] held a year after his death due to the "hundreds of thousands of people expected to attend".[3] He left behind a legacy of dhamma talks, students, and monasteries.
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