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 Ajahn
Chah was perhaps the greatest Theravada
meditation master of
the 20th century. Born in Thailand in 1918, he became a
monk when still a young man but soon grew tired of sedate life in
the conventional monasteries. He became a wandering monk, living in
the forest and devoted his time to meditation. After many years, he
settled in a forest hermitage which eventually developed into a
monastery and began to attract those interested in meditation. Ajahn
Chah became well-known for his warmth, his earthy humour and his
particularly practical, direct and spontaneous approach to
meditation. By the 1970's he began to attract many Western disciples,
some of whom later went on to establish monasteries and meditation
centres in the West. Although he himself never wrote anything, some
of his talks, sayings and anecdotes were recorded and published and
have since circulated widely. Ajahn Chah died in 1992 after a long,
debilitating illness.
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