Keeping the Breath in Mind & Lessons in Samadhi
Wat Asokaram (Samut Prakan) · 1979
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Ajahn Lee Dhammadharo
Ajahn Lee Dhammadharo
1907 CE–1961 CE · Modern · Ubon Ratchathani
1907–1961 CE
Ajahn Lee Dhammadharo (1907–1961 CE) was a leading disciple of Ajahn Mun and one of the most influential teachers of the Thai Forest Tradition in the 20th century. Born in Ubon Ratchathani in Thailand, he ordained at twenty, wandered widely as an ascetic through Cambodia, Burma, and India, and in 1954 founded Wat Asokaram near Bangkok, helping bring forest meditation into mainstream Thai religious life. He is especially remembered for systematic, accessible instructions on breath meditation and the absorptions (jhāna). He is well documented; he died in 1961. He is treated aniconically here.
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DOCUMENTED: born in 1907 in a village of Muang Sam Sip district; ordained at twenty and became a direct disciple of Ajahn Mun.
About Ubon Ratchathani
Ubon Ratchathani is a province and city in the Isan (northeastern) region of Thailand, near the Lao and Cambodian borders. It is a heartland of the Thai Forest Tradition (kammaṭṭhāna): Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta, regarded with his teacher Ajahn Sao as the tradition's founder, was born in the province, and Ajahn Chah later established his forest monastery Wat Nong Pah Pong here.
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