This is the compound of the forest temple founded by ajan Buddhadasa. It has now become a tribute to his teachings and has a museum and library. Visitors can stay in guest quarters on site.

Ajan Buddhadasa Bhikku 1906-1993
      Ajan Buddhadasa Bhikku was born in Chaiya in 1906. He studied scriptures before retiring to the forest fox six years solitary meditation. He became a highly esteemed forest monk by practicing a mixture of strict intellectual discipline, unorthodox interpretation of Buddhist thought and practice(including ideas from Zen Buddhism and Taoism as well as secular, modern reformist ideas about the practice of Thai Buddhism), withdrawal and meditation. He combined his radical thinking and practices with a very effective use of the printed medium (in both Thai and English) and became the most celebrated Thai Buddhist thinker amongst western adepts.
        His form of Buddhism was very pure and austere and a shift away from the magical and supernatural qualities of popular Buddhism. He was branded a communist for writing against capitalist theory, which he perceived as promoting greed, and was treated with suspicion and disdain by the Sangha (Buddhism governing council) for speaking out against the blessing of amulets and for attempting to demythologize Buddhism. He was seen in the west and by Thai intellectuals as a radical reformer but was worshipped by the Thai people as a living saint and a powerful magical figure. He died in 1993 and wanted the simplest of funerals, yet his death was an internationally reported event and sparked national mourning.

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