Ajaan Suwat Suvaco (27 August 19195 April 2002), born in Thailand, was a
Buddhist monk who founded four monasteries in the western United States. Ordained at the age of twenty, he became a student of
Ajaan Funn Acaro two or three years later. He also studied briefly with
Ajaan Mun.
Following Ajaan Funn's death in 1977, Ajaan Suwat stayed on at the monastery to supervise his teacher's royal funeral and the construction of a monument and museum in Ajaan Funn's honor. In the 1980s Ajaan Suwat came to the United States, where he established his four monasteries: one near Seattle, Washington; two near Los Angeles; and one in the hills of San Diego County (
Metta Forest Monastery
Metta may refer to:
Buddhism
* Maitrī
''Maitrī'' (Sanskrit; Pali: ''mettā'') means benevolence, loving-kindness,Warder (2004), pp. 63, 94. friendliness,Rhys Davids & Stede (1921-25), p. 540, entry for "Mettā," retrieved 2008-04-29 from ...
). He returned to Thailand in 1996, and died in
Buriram
Buriram (, , , 'city of happiness') is a town (''thesaban mueang'') in Thailand, capital of Buriram Province, about northeast of Bangkok. The town occupies ''tambon'' Nai Mueang of Mueang Buriram District. In 2012 it had a population of 27,86 ...
on 5 April 2002, after a long illness.
"Suwat Suvaco, Phra Ajaan (1919–2002)"
(Access to Insight
Access to Insight is a Theravada Buddhist website providing access to many translated texts from the Tipitaka, and contemporary materials published by the Buddhist Publication Society and many teachers from the Thai Forest Tradition.
History
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).
External links
Articles by ''Ajaan Suwat Suvaco''
Ajaan Suwat - Index collection of talks and books
''accesstoinsight.org''
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*'' ttps://www.dhammatalks.org/books/IntelligentHeart/Section0001.html The Intelligent Heart : Five Dhamma Talks'
References
1919 births
2002 deaths
Thai Forest Tradition monks
Thai Theravada Buddhist monks
20th-century Buddhist monks
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