Wat Chonprathanrangsarid
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Wat Chonprathan Rangsarit is located on Tiwanon road, 1, Bang
Talat sub-district in Nonthaburi province or at Nonthaburi-Ha
Yak Pak Kret road. Inside the temple, there is a vast space for
promulgate and study Buddhist teachings. Also, bamboo lawn is
open for Buddhists in order to perform religious rituals or
listen to Dharma teachings from Phra Phrommangkhalachan Thep
Wisutthimethi or known as Phra Panya Nantha Phikkhu, the former
senior monk, on Sundays from 9 o’clock in the morning on. Though
the teaching may be easy to understand, it is filled with
sophisticated Dharma and idealistic three refuges. The venerable
monk Panya Nantha Phikkhu is one of the well-known monks who are
full of morals and kindness; he could teach different kinds of
people to grab the idea of Buddha teachings. He is the first
monk daring to change the Thai extravagant religious ritual into
a useful, simple and appropriate one such as the simple funeral
at Wat Chonprathan Rangsarit where there is only Dharma teaching
without any food catering, performances or wreathes. He is then
named “the reverend monk who reformed Thai Buddhist rituals”.
Nowadays and during religious days, there are activities such as
praying, Dharma teachings and offering lunch to the monks at
rock-arched lawn.
When M.L. Choochart Kumpoo, the
director-general of Royal Irrigation Department, visited Wat
Umong in Chiangmai and got the chance to listen the venerable
monk Panya Nantha Phikkhu’s teaching who was staying at Wat
Umong at that time. He admired the reverend monk’s new method of
teaching; from sitting on a chair holding a palm leaf into
teaching while standing in front of the public and giving
up-to-date examples. It help drew more number of Buddhists to
come and learn Dharma. That is when Wat Chonprathan Rangsarit is
started. The temple was built in 1959 and the venerable monk
Panya Nantha Phikkhu was invited to stay and become the senior
monk there in 1960. At the present, Phra Mahacharoen Sutthi
Yanmethi, 7th grade graduation in Buddhist theology, is
meanwhile taking care of the temple after the venerable monk had
passed away on 10th October, 2007 with Pneumonia and kidney
failure diseases at Siriratch Hospital at 96 years old. |
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Bang Talat |
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13.90894 N |
100.5119 E |
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