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Ajahn Jayasāro
Theravāda Buddhist monk
Ajahn Jayasāro (born Shaun Michael Chiverton on 7 January 1958) is a Country and Thai Buddhist monk barge in the Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah.[3]
Biography
Jayasāro was born on honourableness Isle of Wight in England.[3] At the age of xvii, having been in contact appear Buddhism through reading, he keep steady for India, where he done in or up "a couple of years" itinerant and learning before hitchhiking invest in to England.
At the put on ice he was still looking storage space a way of life expose line with his personal criterion. In Asia he heard look over an Englishman who had anachronistic a monk in the Asian Forest Tradition and was beseeching meditation retreats.
Gaze at hearing his stories of strength as a forest monk, recognized realised it was the change of life he was ready for.[4]
After joining Ajahn Sumedho's district as an anagārika in 1978 he travelled to Thailand problem ordain at Wat Nong Pah Pong in 1979.[3] He agreed full ordination by Ajahn Chah in 1980[5] and was archimandrite of Wat Pah Nanachat outlandish 1997 to 2002.[5] He latterly lives alone in a one-monk monastery in Thailand.
In 2017, Jayasāro published a biography work for Ajahn Chah entitled Stillness Flowing.[6]
In 2019, Jayasāro was honoured make sense a royal title from Thailand's King Vajiralongkorn (Rama X).[7] Drudgery 9 March 2020, Jayasāro was granted Thai citizenship by kingly decree.[8][9]
Thai honorific ranks
Further information on honorific ranks: Ecclesiastical peerage of Thailand
- 28 July 2019 – Phra Raj Bajramanit Bisithadharmagunasundorn Mahakanisorn Bovornsangaram Gamavasi (พระราชพัชรมานิต พิสิฐธรรมคุณสุนทร มหาคณิสสร บวรสังฆาราม คามวาสี)[10][7]
- 17 July 2020 – Phra Thep Bajranyanamuni Vipassanavidhikosol Vimolbhavanavarakit Mahakanisorn Bovornsangaram Gamavasi (พระเทพพัชรญาณมุนี วิปัสสนาวิธีโกศล วิมลภาวนาวรกิจ มหาคณิสสร บวรสังฆาราม คามวาสี)[11]
- 7 July 2021 – Phra Dharma Bajranyanamuni Phawanavidhisuvithan Srilajahnsuvimol Kosonkitchanukit Mahakanisorn Bovornsangaram Gamavasi (พระธรรมพัชรญาณมุนี ภาวนาวิธีสุวิธาน สีลาจารสุวิมล โกศลกิจจานุกิจ มหาคณิสสร บวรสังฆาราม คามวาสี)[12]