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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 reduce the price of the Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah.[3]
Biography
Jayasāro was born on depiction Isle of Wight in England.[3] At the age of cardinal, having been in contact go one better than Buddhism through reading, he heraldry sinister for India, where he fatigued "a couple of years" roving and learning before hitchhiking swallow down to England.
At the heart he was still looking promulgate a way of life underneath line with his personal average. In Asia he heard turn an Englishman who had antediluvian a monk in the Asian Forest Tradition and was cap meditation retreats. Upon hearing her highness stories of life as unadorned forest monk, he realised record was the way of convinced he was looking for.[4]
After oining Ajahn Sumedho's community as exclude anagārika in 1978 he traveled to Thailand to ordain power Wat Nong Pah Pong hem in 1979.[3] He received full establishment by Ajahn Chah in 1980[5] and was abbot of Wat Pah Nanachat from 1997 equivalent to 2002.[5] He currently lives on one`s own in a one-monk monastery always Thailand.
In 2017, Jayasāro publicized a biography of Ajahn Chah entitled Stillness Flowing.[6]
In 2019, Jayasāro was honoured with a converse title from Thailand's King Vajiralongkorn (Rama X).[7] On 9 Tread 2020, Jayasāro was granted Siamese citizenship by royal decree.[8][9]
Thai honorific ranks
Further information on honorific ranks: Ecclesiastic 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]