Luang Phor WAEN SUJINNO wat Doi Mae pang Thailand Amulet Rare - $18 - (Live Oak, CA)
Luang Pu Waen Sujinno was born on the 16th February, 1883 (BE 2426) in Tambon Na Pong, Muang District of Loei Province to a blacksmith's family. He was named Yarn and had one elder sister. He ordained as a novice monk in 1892 at Wat Bodhi Chai in Na Pong at the age of 9 to fulfill the wish of his mother, when she suddenly died, while LP Waen was 5 years old. He studied with a number of teachers and later ordained as a monk at a temple in Hua Tapam district of Ubon Ratchathani at the age of 21. Amongst the teachers he studied with, one of them was Ajarn Mun Bhuridatta Thera in Udon Thani who taught him the virtues of the pursuance of a secluded life and the practice of meditation and Dhamma in the jungles. Subsequently, Luang Pu traveled widely in the Northeast of Thailand in search of isolated places where he could meditate. His travels took him to Bangkok where he metChao Khun Phra Upali Gunupamacariya of Wat Bovoranives in 1921 with whom Luang Pu Waen spent several years studying and practising the Dhamma. Later, Chao Khun Phra Upali took him to Wat Chedi Luang in Chiangmai where Luang Pu Waen decided to make a switch from the Maha Nikaya sect of the Theravada Buddhism to the stricter Dhammayutika Nikaya sect. Luang Pu Waen travelled extensively by foot through thick jungles and remote mountains and even ventured into Myanmar and India where he paid homage at several historic sacred Buddhist sites. In the year of 1995, news of a foot injury sustained during his stay in the seclusion at Wat Paa Ban Pong in Mae Taeng District, Chiangmai, reached Ajarn Noo Suchito of Wat Doi Mae Pang, who later arranged for Luang Poo Waen to stay in Wat Doi Mae Pang permanently. Wat Doi Mae Pang then became the residence of Luang Pu Waen until his passing away in 1985 (BE 2528). Even then Luang Pu did not reside in the monastery itself, but in a secluded hut a short distance away from the actual monastery. Luang Pu Waen began consecrating amulets and sacred images after settling d…
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