Monday, April 13, 2009

Biography of Chao Khun Nor



Chao Khun Nor (B.E.2440~2514) was a close royal servant of King Rama VI. After King Rama VI passed away, he was very sad and left the palace to ordain as a monk at Wat Dhepsirin in B.E.2468, and never left his monkhood until he passed away in early B.E.2514 at the age of 74. In his long years of monkhood, he ate only one vegetable and cereal meal a day and never stepped out of the temple even in the WWII period.

In the war time, Bangkok railway main station, just few km away from the temple was intensively bombed by the allied force, but the bombs missed the target and hit the temple. Almost all monks left the temple for safety, but he was still living there. Chao Khun Nor was a strict Dhamma practicer. He practiced advanced Dhamma, devoted all his monkhood life to follows Lord Buddha's teachings, and never missed the morning and evening chant at Ubosoth until the end of his life.

Chao Khun Nor could detect the thinking and mind of anyone who is speaking to him. He had precognition mind power, and correctly foretold major events including his own death. This is so, when he was well prepared before he left this world, by telling his nephew never offers him the food box anymore and also telling the next room young monk that the day he did not go to chant means the day of his death.

Then he went to sleep within a mosquito net, his two hands joined together on his chest - paying the last respect to Lord Buddha and he passed away in that beautiful posture on January 8, B.E.2514.


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