About Luang Por Liem Thitadhammo

Luang Por Liem Thitadhammo, a Buddhist monk in the Thai Forest Tradition, was born in Sri Saket Province in the Northeast of Thailand on the 5th of November 1941. After higher ordination at twenty years of age, Luang Por practiced in several village monasteries throughout the Northeast until he joined the Forest Tradition in 1969. He took up the training under Luang Por Chah, who later became one of the most famous monks in the country, and whose reputation and influence has continued to spread throughout the world, even today. Living under Luang Por Chah’s guidance in Wat Nong Pah Pong, Luang Por Chah’s monastery in Ubon Province, Luang Por Liem soon became one of his closest disciples. After Luang Por Chah became severely ill in 1982, he entrusted Luang Por Liem to run the monastery. Shortly thereafter, as Luang Pu Chah’s illness prevented him from speaking, the Sangha of Wat Nong Pah Pong appointed Luang Por Liem to take over the abbotship. He fulfils this duty up to the present day keeping the heritage of Luang Por Chah’s Dhamma and characteristic ways of monastic training available for monks, nuns and lay disciples.

Shortly after his 60th birthday, almost ten years after Luang Por Chah’s death, Luang Por Liem Thitadhammo was given the honorary title of Tan Chao Khun Visuddhisamvara Thera by His Majesty the King of Thailand. For the Sangha at Wat Pah Nanachat (Luang Por Chah’s International Forest Monastery for training non-Thai monks) Luang Por Liem is not only a dearly respected teacher and guide in the monastic life, but has for the last ten years also conducted every monastic ordination ceremony as the preceptor.

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