The Thai forest master whose lineage carried vipassana to the West.
Thai Theravada monk in the forest tradition of Ajahn Mun. Founder of Wat Pah Pong in Ubon Ratchathani and Wat Pah Nanachat, the international forest monastery that trained a generation of Western Theravada teachers.
American Theravada monk, senior disciple of Ajahn Chah, and founding abbot of Amaravati and Chithurst monasteries in England. The first Westerner to establish the Thai forest tradition in the West.
The oldest surviving school of Buddhism — the way of the elders. The tradition that preserved the Pali Canon, the monastic rule, and the path of the arahant across twenty-three centuries from Sri Lanka through Southeast Asia.
