Ajaan lee autobiography of benjamin

          THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PHRA AJAAN LEE PHRA SUDDHIDHAMMARANSI GAMBHIRAMEDHACARIYA (DHAMMADHARO, LEE) Translated from the Thai by Thanissaro....

          Part I

          I WAS BORN at nine in the evening on Thursday, the 31st of January, 1907—the second day of the waning moon, the second lunar month, the year of the Horse—in Baan Nawng Sawng Hawng (DoubleMarsh Village), Yaang Yo Phaab township, Muang Saam Sib district, Ubon Ratchathani province.

          1 year ago more.

          This was a village of about 80 houses, divided into three clusters: the Little Village, the Inner Village, and the Outer Village. In the Outer Village was a temple; that was the village in which I was born. Between the villages were three ponds, and surrounding the villages on all sides were scores of giant rubber trees.

          To the north were the ruins of an ancient town with two abandoned Buddhist sanctuaries.

          Born in the Ubon Ratchathani Province of Isan Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo - Coming Home (Read by Thanissaro Bhikkhu).

        1. Born in the Ubon Ratchathani Province of Isan Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo - Coming Home (Read by Thanissaro Bhikkhu).
        2. One of the leading 20th century Thai forest monks was Phra Suddhidhammaraisa Gambharamedhacariya, (–), known as Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo.
        3. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PHRA AJAAN LEE PHRA SUDDHIDHAMMARANSI GAMBHIRAMEDHACARIYA (DHAMMADHARO, LEE) Translated from the Thai by Thanissaro.
        4. Ajaan Lee. Dhammadharo The craft of the heart (citta-vijja) / by The Dalai Lama also recounts his early life; vividly recalls his first.
        5. Lee Dhammadaro [Li Thammatharo].

          6. The spirits there were said to be so fierce that they sometimes possessed people, causing them to go live in the spirit shrines. From the looks of the ruins, I’d say they were built by the Khmers.

          My original name was Chaalee.

          My parents were Pao and Phuay Nariwong; my grandparents on my father’s