Biography of Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Venerable Buddhadasa Bhikkhu was born on Sunday 27 April B.E. 2449(1906) in a business family at Klang Village,Pumriniang Subdistrict in Suratthani in southern Thailand. He was named Nguam. His parents were Mr.Sieng and Mrs.Kluan. He has one brother, Yee Kuey, and one sister, Kim Choice. Nguam went forth as bhikkhu(Buddhist monk) at the age of twenty in 1926. His religious name is Indapanno. Venerable Indapannno went to Bangkok to study the Dhamma and the Pali language. In B.E. 2471(1921) he passed the highest level in Dhamma Studies(Nak Dham-Ek) and in B.E.2473(1930) he passed three of the nine levels in Pali Studies.
After the founding of Suan Mokkha, he studied all schools of Buddhism, as well as the other major religious traditions. His interest was practical rather than scholarly. He thought to unite all genuinely religious people in order to work together to help, as he put it, “drag humanity out from under the power of materialism.” This broadmindedness won him friends and students around the world, including Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs.
His last project was to establish an International Dhamma Hermitage Center. This addition to Suan Mokkha is intended to provide facilities for:
-Courses which introduce foreigners to the correct understanding of Buddhist principles and practice
-Meetings among Buddhists from around the world to establish and agree upon the “heart of Buddhism”
-Meetings of leaders from all religions for the sake of increasing mutual understanding and cooperating to drag the world out from the tyranny of materialism
-He also left instructions for a small monastery in which foreign monks may train as Dhamma-duta(Dhamma missionaries). It now functions under the name ”Daun Kiam” or Suan Atammayataram
-A similar facility for nuns, Thai and foreign, awaits the women who will make it happen. He called it Dhamma-Mata, which means Dhamma Mothers, those who give birth to others through Dhamma)
Buddhadasa died on 8th July B.E. 2536(1993). Suan Mokkha continues to exist in the hearts and actions of all those who have been inspired and guided by his example and words. Suan Mokkha is not so much a physical place as it is the space of liberation that we all must discover in this very life.
Source: Path to Enlightenment:A Guide to meditation techniques practiced in Thailand
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