Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta
1870 CE–1949 CE · Modern · Ubon Ratchathani
1870–1949 CE
Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta (1870–1949 CE) is, with his teacher Ajahn Sao Kantasīlo, credited with founding the modern Thai Forest Tradition (the Kammaṭṭhāna or 'meditation' lineage). Born in a Lao-speaking farming village of Ubon Ratchathani in Thailand's northeast, he ordained in 1893 and spent most of his life as a wandering forest ascetic across Thailand, Burma, and Laos, devoted to strict discipline and intensive meditation. He trained a generation of teachers—among them Ajahn Lee, Ajahn Maha Bua, and Ajahn Chah's wider milieu—whose monasteries spread his approach across Thailand and abroad. He is a well-documented historical figure; the meditative attainments and visionary episodes celebrated in his devotional biographies are traditional and are kept distinct here from the attested history. Following the site's house style, he is treated aniconically, with no portrait.
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Ubon Ratchathani
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DOCUMENTED: born in a farming village of Lao-speaking northeastern Thailand in 1870; ordained at Wat Liap in the provincial town of Ubon Ratchathani in 1893.
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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