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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Buddhist world
- Xuyun (Hsu Yun)· 1840 CE–1959 CE
- Ledi Sayadaw· 1846 CE–1923 CE
- Jamgön Mipham Gyatso· 1846 CE–1912 CE
- Paul Carus· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- Dwight Goddard· 1861 CE–1939 CE
- Anagārika Dharmapāla· 1864 CE–1933 CE
- D. T. Suzuki· 1870 CE–1966 CE
- The Thirteenth Dalai Lama (Thubten Gyatso)· 1876 CE–1933 CE
- Nyogen Senzaki· 1876 CE–1958 CE
- Nyanatiloka Mahāthera· 1878 CE–1957 CE
- Sokei-an (Shigetsu Sasaki)· 1882 CE–1945 CE
- Hakuun Yasutani· 1885 CE–1973 CE
- Taixu· 1890 CE–1947 CE
- B. R. Ambedkar· 1891 CE–1956 CE
- Webu Sayadaw· 1896 CE–1977 CE
- Balangoda Ananda Maitreya· 1896 CE–1998 CE
- Thích Quảng Đức· 1897 CE–1963 CE
- Anagarika Govinda· 1898 CE–1985 CE
- Sayagyi U Ba Khin· 1899 CE–1971 CE
- Nyanaponika Thera· 1901 CE–1994 CE
- Shunryū Suzuki· 1904 CE–1971 CE
- Mahasi Sayadaw· 1904 CE–1982 CE
- Dudjom Rinpoche (Jigdral Yeshe Dorje)· 1904 CE–1987 CE
- Alan Watts· 1915 CE–1973 CE
Scientists
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Rulers world
- Kemal Ataturk· 1881 CE–1938 CE
- Faisal I of Iraq· 1885 CE–1933 CE
- Mahatma Gandhi· 1869 CE–1948 CE
- Victor Emmanuel III· 1869 CE–1947 CE
- Reza Shah Pahlavi· 1878 CE–1944 CE
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah· 1876 CE–1948 CE
- Franklin D. Roosevelt· 1882 CE–1945 CE
- Ibn Saud (Abdulaziz Al Saud)· 1875 CE–1953 CE
- Benito Mussolini· 1883 CE–1945 CE
- Neville Chamberlain· 1869 CE–1940 CE
- Karl I· 1887 CE–1922 CE
- Joseph Stalin· 1878 CE–1953 CE
- Hideki Tojo· 1884 CE–1948 CE
- Calvin Coolidge· 1872 CE–1933 CE
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