• Insight Meditation

• The Real Way to Awakening

• Beneficial Factors of Meditation

• The New Approach to Buddhism

• The Middle Path of Life

• The Way of Non-Attachment

• The Dynamic Way of Meditation

• Turning to the Source

• Union of Opposites

• Selected Stories of Dhammapada

• Love is Not a Fairytale
   

Lay Thai meditation teacher, writer.

Born in 1935 in North-Eastern Thailand. Ordained as novice at the age of thirteen (1948) and received his higher ordination at the age of twenty-one (1956).

Immediately after obtaining the First Degree in Buddhist Studies, Comparative Religion, and Modern Subjects, he was appointed an Instructor in Educational Psychology and in English language at the Buddhist University, Mahachulalongkorn Rajavidyalaya. Here too he rendered special services for two years, establishing, administering, and teaching the first Buddhist Sunday School for Thai children and young people.

Before accompanying his Principal Vipassana Master (the late Most Venerable Phra Dhammadhiraraj Mahamuni of Wat Mahadhatu, Bangkok) to England, in 1964, he held the position of Headmaster of a private school in Prachinburi Province. His accomplishments in the Buddhist monastic tradition include attaining the position of Preceptor, becoming Abbott of a Thai Temple, Wat Buddhapadipa, as Chao Khun Phra Sobhana Dhammasudhi in London, England (1966), and being appointed Chief of the Thai Buddhist Mission in the West. He is also a Vipassana Master.

He began his spiritual work in the capacity of a Vipassana Meditation teacher in England in 1965. He gradually became internationally known, particularly in Europe and North America, where he rendered most of his services to those seeking spiritual advice and instruction in meditation practices. He first visited the United States in January, 1969, when he conducted a meditation workshop at Oberlin College and lectured at several colleges and universities. Since then he has regularly returned to Canada and to the States.

In October 1971, he gave up his robes after twenty-three years as a Buddhist monk. He has since lead a simple, meditative life, continuing his work of teaching Vipassana Meditation and other related activities such as Vipassana Dreamwork, Active Imagination, and Holistic Healing. He also writes and many of his books are translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch.