* Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta Thera, born in Ubon Ratchatani province.

* Ajahn Mun

Among his teachers at this time was Ajahn Mun, a renowned meditation master in the Forest Tradition.

One of these teachers was the Venerable Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta.

The Thammayut Nikaya has produced two particularly highly revered forest monks: Phra Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera ( 1861 – 1941 ) and Phra Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta ( 1870 – 1949 ).

It was in part a reaction against this perceived dilution in Buddhism which led Ajahn Sao and Ajahn Mun to the simpler life associated with the forest tradition and meditation practice.

In the early 1900s, Thailand's Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera and his student, Mun Bhuridatta led the Forest Tradition revival movement.

Meditation methods frequently used by Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera and his student, Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta, are the walking meditation and the sitting meditation.

Ajahn Mun was born on Thursday, January 20, 1870, in a farming village named Baan Kham Bong, Khong Jiam, on the western bank of the Mekong River, in present day Si Mueang Mai District, Ubon Ratchathani Province of northeastern Thailand ( Isan ).

Ajahn Mun was fully ordained as a monk at age 22, on June 12, 1893, at Wat Liap monastery in the provincial city of Ubon Ratchatani.

After ordination, Mun went to practice meditation with Ajahn Sao of Wat Liap in Ubon, where he learned to practice the monastic traditions of Laos.

Ajahn Sao taught Mun a meditation method to calm the mind, the mental repetition of the word, " Buddho.

" Ajahn Sao often took Ajahn Mun wandering and camping in the dense forests along the Mekong River, where they would practice meditation together.

Ajahn Mun spent a year in " illumination " in the teak forest around the temple at this early part of his monastic life.

In 1899, Ajahn Mun was re-ordained in the Thammayut Nikaya, a reformed Thai sect which emphasized monastic disciple and scripture study.

Having practiced under the guidance of his teacher for several years, and with his teachers blessings, Ajahn Mun went out on his own to search for advanced meditation teachers.

Ajahn Mun and Ajahn Sao went on pilgrimage together in 1905 and venerated the Phra That Phanom shrine, a center of Theravada Buddhism for centuries, most sacred to the Lao people.

Ajahn Mun then wandered alone, onward to the north, to Sakhon Nakhon Province on the highlands of the northeastern Plateau, inland from the Mekong River, into the Phu Phan Mountain Range.

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Venerable Ajahn Chah Subhaddo ( Chao Khun Bodhinyana Thera ) (, alternatively spelled Achaan Chah, occasionally with honorific titles Luang Por and Phra ; 17 June 1918 – 16 January 1992 ) was an influential teacher of the Buddhadhamma and a founder of two major monasteries in the Thai Forest Tradition.

Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera ( known to most as Ajahn Brahm ), born Peter Betts in London, United Kingdom on 7 August 1951, is a Theravada Buddhist monk.

The ordination ceremony took place at Ajahn Brahm's Bodhinyana Monastery at Serpentine ( near Perth, WA ), Australia.

It finds its origins in modernist influences on the traditions of Burma, Laos, Thailand and Sri Lanka, and the innovations and popularisations by Theravāda teachers as Mahasi Sayadaw (" New Burmese Method "), Ledi Sayadaw ( the Ledi lineage ), Anagarika Munindra, and Ajahn Chah ( Thai Forest Tradition ), as well as nonsectarian derivatives from those traditions such as the movement led by S. N. Goenka ( with his co-teacher wife Illaichi Devi ) who studied with teacher Sayagyi U Ba Khin.

The western order ( if one can speak of such a distinction ) was founded by an American monk, Ajahn Sumedho ( born Robert Jackman ), at the request of his teacher Ajahn Chah.

During a brief stay in London in 1978, Ajahn Sumedho, while undertaking the traditional alms round of Theravada monks ( on Hampstead Heath ), encountered a lone jogger who was struck by the Bhikkhu's outlandish attire.

* Australia ( Ajahn Brahm, Bodhinyana Monastery, Bodhivana Monastery ),

* Ajahn Chah ( 1991 ), A taste of Freedom.

* 1918 – Ajahn Chah, Thai Buddhist meditation master ( d. 1992 )

* Ajahn Buddhadasa ( 1906 – 1993 )

* Ajahn Dhammadharo ( 1913 – 2005 )

* Ajahn Naeb ( 1897 – 1983 )

Amaravati has sister monasteries in England – in Devon, Northumberland and West Sussex – as well as monasteries in New Zealand, Italy, Switzerland and North America, which were likewise founded by Ajahn Sumedho.

Ajahn Mun died in 1949 at Wat Suddhavasa in Sakhon Nakhon Province.

Theravada monk Ajahn Brahm has written to the West Australian newspaper in response to an article published last week in which the Dalai Lama was quoted as saying that homosexuality was immoral.

This article was first brought to the attention of Ajahn Brahm-the elected head of the Australian Sangha Association-by members of the BSWA's Armadale Meditation Group who felt that the Dalai Lama's comments were not in line with the Buddhist ethos.

Ajahn Chah was born on 17 June 1918 near Ubon Ratchathani in the Isan region of northeast Thailand.

In 1954, Wat Nong Pah Pong monastery was established, where Ajahn Chah could teach his simple, practice-based form of meditation.

In 1975, Wat Pah Nanachat ( International Forest Monastery ) was founded with Ajahn Sumedho as the abbot.

By the early 1980s, Ajahn Chah's health was in decline due to diabetes.

Ajahn Chah used his ill health as a teaching point, emphasizing that it was " a living example of the impermanence of all things ...( and ) reminded people to endeavor to find a true refuge within themselves, since he would not be able to teach for very much longer ".

Ajahn Khemadhammo was appointed an OBE ( Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire ) in the Queen's Birthday Honours, June 2003 for ' services to prisoners '.

Brahm was invited to Perth, Australia by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia to assist Ajahn Jagaro in teaching duties.

The land was to become Bodhinyana Monastery ( named after their teacher, Ajahn Chah Bodhinyana ).

For his actions of 22 October 2009, on 1 November 2009, at a meeting of senior members of the Thai monastic sangha, held at Wat Pah Pong, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand, Brahm was removed from the Ajahn Chah Forest Sangha lineage and is no longer associated with the main monastery in Thailand, Wat Pah Pong, nor with any of the other Western Forest Sangha branch monasteries of the Ajahn Chah tradition .< ref >

Perhaps its most widely known representative was Ajahn Chah.

Perhaps its most widely known representative was Ajahn Chah and in the UK Ajahn Sumedho.

It was later spread globally by Ajahn Mun's students including Ajahn Thate, Ajahn Maha Bua and Ajahn Chah and several western disciples, among whom the most senior is Luang Por Ajahn Sumedho.