Luang Pu Nenkham Chattigo, Head of Wat Pa Khanti Dhamma and Chairman of the Patronage of Righteousness and Quality of Life Foundation, went to southern Thailand on July 28th, 2009. Many devoted followers accompanied him in the trip.

First, Luang Pu went to Phuket to visit the construction site of a big Buddha image, Pra Buddha Ming Mongkol. Aimed to be the biggest Buddha image in Southern Thailand, the height would be 40 meters tall, with the entire body covered with white jade, costing millons of Baht. Construction work has shown good progress, due to faith of Buddhists worldwide who donated their money for the costs. When completed, the Buddha image would be dedicated to H.M. the King, H.M. the Queen, royal family members, and would serve as a well-respected landmark Buddha image for Phuket.

On that auspicious occasion, Luang Pu kindly gave a Dhamma discourse to Buddhist participants who patiently listened to his sermon. A part of his words reads :-

“We all have jointly made merits in the past several lives that caused us to reunite again in this reincarnation. Thus today I would like to give moral support to you so that you will keep on making merits and build up your Parami to completion. Since the time of King Asoka the Great (of India 2 millennia ago), who led Buddhists to build thousands of temples, pagodas, Buddha images, in his Buddhist empire, especially the Buddha images were our important reminders of the Lord Buddha, people of that era who jointly built those monuments had gone to various levels of heaven after their lives ended in this world. Some of those angels are still living on those merits up to today. Beneficial results of the merits to the past monument builders and to today’s builders are of the same beneficial forte alike.”

After he finished his mission in Phuket, Luang Pu and his followers continued the journey by helicopter to Nakhon Si Thammarat. He was invited by Dr. Sunandha Lelertbhan, Chairperson of Twin Lotus Co., to preach to Buddhists in the province and nearby provinces at the Twin Lotus Hotel ’s conference room.

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