Phra Rahu

  During the time, ancient times when the human being does not exist, a celestial creator of the heavenly realm by the name of Phra Isuan has the super divinity power.When he saw the planet was in total darkness, he creates a god name the Sun of God to provide light for the planet however he feels that something was missing as burning heat lasted every moment so he created another "cooling god" which is the God of Moon. He ordered the 2 god to be on duty by rotation hence, there are day and light.

  Following that Phra Isuan, created Phra Narai who become his overall assistant to take charge of all the affairs in the planet world. He feels that he need to have deities to guard each day of the week and these 7 deities were the gods of the constellations.
   
  One day,when Phra Isuan was performing his astounding acts, he accidentally burnt 12 magical hats, when the hats turned into ashes,they suddenly transformed into a monster-like creature was he named it Rahu. Left with no choice, he arranged Rahu as rank 8, from then on, Sunday was taken charge by 1st constellation, Monday was taken by 2nd constellation and so on. 

  Rahu represents number 8. Its face was depicted as that of an Asura with a glistening body and the lower body has a tail of a dragon. The characteristic of Rahu was unique.  It's a lone ranger, fond of anything that can create numbness, a special liking towards the color of black and darkness. he also enjoys combating with other deities as it possessed high spiritual powers, it always got the upper hand so many deities started to dislike Rahu.

  One day, the deities united to raise their grievances to Phra Isuan. After verified on the complaint, he realized that the various deities have been cursed by Lersi Tulawatsat that they will always defeat in the fight. Phra Isuan ordered Phra Narai to arrange for a grand ritual ceremony to serve celestial holy water to be consumed by the various deities so their power can be strengthened intensely and attain an imperishable body.
  
  Phra Narai acted according to and gathers all the deities and the celestial dragon for the ceremony. First of all, he requested the celestial dragon to curl up a mountain range and somersault in the sky. The deities were to use their strength to assist the dragon's body to somersault, however, the various deities were unable to do so due to their limited strength. Phra Narai discovered something is not right, so he decided to ask asuras for their help in assisting the ceremony. Phra Narai promised the Asuras that when the holy water is obtained it will be shared among the asuras who helped so Rahu with the rest of the asuras accepted his offer.

  Phra Narai instructed the Deities and Asura to be position at the tail of the dragon and the head of the dragon respectively. However the Deities rushed to the tail of the dragon and the Asuras started to doubt something is not right. They later discovered the dragon will release poisonous energy from its head. The asuras complained to Phra Narai that they wanted to avoid of being poisoned. Phra Narai then ordered Phra Siva to take a look and confirmed to be true. Phra Siva used all his force to suck in all the poisonous energy emitted from the dragon's head and later used his power to decipher the poison. This was the reason why Phra Siva body was black in color.

  After much effort, they finally obtained the holy water. However due to his limited , up to the consumption of 10. Phra Narai came up an idea to turn himself into a charming lady to lure the asuras to the other side of the mountain to prolong the time. But Rahu was not seduced by the charming woman and he noticed the various deities was about to drink the holy water so he manifested itself into a deity and joined the queue. 

  However, he was careless enough to forget to manifested his tail and was noticed by God of sun and God of the moon who rushed to inform Phra Narai. Phra Narai becomes angry and raised his lotus wheel to flung towards Rahu. At the spur of the moment as Rahu was drinking the holy water, the wheel slit through its body and cut into 2. Since Rahu drank the holy water, it had already possessed an imperishable body.

Effects of Phra Rahu 
Protection from harm
Good Luck
Protection from backstabber 
Convert Bad Luck to Good luck.

               The 8 kinds of Food for Offering to Phra Rahu
Black Grapes for good business
Black Liqueur for courage to risk or invest
Black Coffee for you will get whatever you wish for 
Black Jelly or Grass Jelly for patience and graceful thought
Black Beans for progress
Black Sticky Rice for wealth and love from family
Black Thai Cake for rewards,success, and good luck
Black Fermented Eggs for successful contact or errands

Phra Phrom of Erawan Shrine

                                         Erawan Shrine

- Famous for bringing good fortune, Phra Phrom(4 face buddha) has the power to answer prayers to all visitors.

  It was originally built in 1958 during the construction of Erawan Hotel which is now Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok because the property's spirit house was not able to appease spirits disrupted by the building work. Spiritual advisers suggested building a shrine dedicated to the four face image head of Brahma and since its Investiture, Phra Phrom has become renowned for bringing good fortune.

  In Hindu belief, The Lord Brahma, the creator is one of the three hottest gods. He has four faces which represent north,south,east, and west which allow him to oversee all directions to protect mortal and immortal worlds. he is known for his good disposition, cool temper and ability to answer all prayers of his faithful visitors.

  The Name Erawan comes from the god Indra's 33 headed Elephant, which is normally depicted with the three heads. When Phra Phrom grant a wish, the worshipper returns their thanks by commissioning the classic dancers and musicians to perform.

  In the early hours of 21th March 2006, Phra Prom was destroyed by a man who is believed to be mentally ill.

  A replacement Brahma statue was recreated in close observance of religion principles, guided by Buddhist monks and Brahmin priest. Made of gilded plaster mixed with gold,bronze, and other precious metals, the new statute contains  pieces of the original and was primed in black lacquer before being cover with gold leaf.

Opening Hours 6am-11pm Daily 

Kruba Chaiya ( Wat Dong Rong Kaew)

   Kruba Chaiya of Wat Dong Rong Kaew is one of youngest great monk in Chang Mai province who is only 24 years old this year. He was born in 15th March Be 2534 was a novice monk who practice Buddhism and magical practice at the age of 13 under the guidance of Maha Supan, Abbot of Wat Hua Song and ordained as a monk at the age of 20. At the age of 16, while he was learning Buddhism and magical practice under Maha Supan, he managed to encounter a great guru who is Kruba Boon Chu.
   Maha Supan strongly recommended Kruba Chaiya to study under Kubra Boon Chu as he know that Kruba Chaiya has great talents. Kruba Boon Chu decided to take in Kruba Chaiya as his disciple and guided Kruba Chaiya in  Meditation, Buddhism and magical practice. After studying under Kruba Boon Chu for 2 years, Kruba Chaiya was sent to another temple where that is another great monk resided in, which is Wat Nam Pew.  
  The Abbot of Wat Nam Pew is Kruba Indra who is one of the well known monks who is top few monk in meditation and magic practice among the Northern Thailand. Kruba Indra was 101 year old when he first encountered and take in Kruba Chaiya as one of his disciples. Kruba Chaiya got his ordination name from Kruba Indra before Kruba Indra passed away at the age of 102.
    At the age of 20, Kruba Chaiya ordained as a monk under Maha Supan as his preceptor and was given the title of Phra Chaiya Pataphi. Due to many miracle incident happened that believers encountered from Kruba Chaiya, more and more believers started to seek blessing from Kruba Chaiya. During Be 2555, a rich merchant who is a believer of Kruba Chaiya brought a piece of land and invited 108 top monks from northern part of Thailand to built a temple for Kruba Chaiya to reside in. This temple was named Wat Dong Rong Kaew.

-Incident I
The parents of the monk will always kept their child's first hair that was shaven as a monk and kept in a transparent container to place it at the Altar. The mother of Kruba Chaiya discovered that Kruba Chaiya hair sticks together and crystallize stones can be seem around it. After this news spreads around, believers started to gather whether Kruba Chaiya shaving his hair to gather it and place his hair in a small bag to keep inside their wallets. Many believers encounter good feedback and this drew more and more believers to gather together.

The Story of Luang Pu Thuad

    Luang Pu Thuad was born in Be 2125 at Ban Suan Chan,Chumphol District,Sathing Phra in Songkhla, Southern part of Thailand. His Parents were Mr. Hu and Mrs. Chan, a poor couple living with Shretthi Pan, the wealthy landlord. The parents name the child as "Pu"(Crab). One day, while Pu was still a newborn baby, his parents took him out to the rice field and made a cradle by cloth between two trees for their child as a sleeping bed, and went over to the paddy field to work. After some time, Chan turned around to look at Pu and extremely frightened when she saw a large snake curling around Pu's cradle. Chan cried loudly and this alerted everyone nearby including Hu to see what's happening. When they reached the scene, they observed that the snake did not harm their child . With the belief passed down from the old generation, they  believed that this snake was vision created by the God, they started to worship the snake with collected flowers, rice ears and prayed that the child will be safe. The snake began to uncurl itself from the child and left soon after. In astonishment, the baby was still sleeping with a crystal ball lit up with many colors at his neck. The crystal ball had been kept and given back to the child when he was grown up. Even today, this crystal ball was placed in Wat Pakko Songkhla, with a long story of its miracles. 

   When Pu was seven years old, he was sent to stay with abbot Chuang, his uncle's monk at Wat Kudi Luang for primary school education. When he was 15, he was ordained as a novice and live with Phra Kru Saddhammarangsi at Wat Sri Yang aka Sri Ku Yang(presently in  Ranod, Songkhla).At the age of 20, he was ordained as a monk in Buddhism with Phra Kru Saddhammarangsi as his Preceptor. The Buddhist name(Chaya) was given and his new monk name was " Samiramo".
   
      During his three years studying under the care of Phra Kru Ka Derm, he studied Dharma and Pali till its introductory completion.After that, he seeks to further his knowledge of Buddhist scriptures in Ayudhya so he seeks permission from his Preceptor and accompanied Mr. In, the large sampan owner to Ayudhya . After sailing three days out in the open sea, the very next day became a rough and stormy. The ship had to anchor till the sea calmed down. At this point of time, fresh water for both drinking and cooking had run out. Everyone, especially the ship owner Mr. In was furious and blamed the monk as the cause of ill fortune and expelled him down from the ship. While Bhikkhu Pu sat in a small boat ready to move forward, he dipped his foot into the sea and told the sailor to fetch the sea water from where he had step to drink. The sailor felt astonished when he had tasted the sea water as it became fresh drinking water. When Mr. In and everyone on the ship was told about this, they came to taste and fetch the fresh water from the limited circle to store all the water supplies they will be needed for the rest of the journey.  After witnessing this miracle, Mr. In and the rest of the people in the ship realized their mistake,they kneel down and begged for forgiveness from the monk. Mr. In re-invited him to the ship and traveled together to Ayudhya again. When the ship reached Ayutthaya , Mr. In invited Bhikkhu Pu along with the abbot of Wat Khae and render Nai Chan,his servant to follow Bhikkhu Pu as his temple man. After settling his trade , Mr. In shipped back to Nakhon Si Thammarat.
   
   During the period in Ayudhya,while Bhikkhu Pu had studied Buddhist scriptures in Wat Lumbalinavas , there is a gambling bet from King of Sri Lanka to King of Siam. The challenge was within seven days, King of Siam has to translate all the golden alphabets into the Buddhist scriptures to the correct orders. If all the requested be fulfilled and finished in time, the King of Sri Lanka will give all of his treasure that he owns on the seven sampans to the King of Siam as tributes. Likewise, if the King of Siam failed to fulfill the bet, the King of Siam had  to pay the tribute to King of Sri Lanka.

  Within the capital city of Ayudhya, no one can fulfill to meet the challenge. After six days of the anxiety of the king has passed, at last, its was found out that a young Bhikkhu named Pu or Samiramo was left and summoned to solve the challenge. The young monk headed to assembly, paying his respect to Maha Sangha, then encountered with the seven Brahmins from Sri Lanka.

  Bhikkhu Pu started to rearrange the golden seeds into Dharma according to Buddhist texts with no difficulties. The 84000 units of the golden seeds were all used up except seven seeds left missing. They were Sam(Dhammasangani),Vi(Vibhanga),Dha(Dhatukatha),Pu(Puggalapannatti),
Ka(Kathavatthu),Ya(Yamaka) and Pa(Patthana) which stands for the hearts of the seven scriptures of Bodhidharma Pikata. The young monk turned to the seven Brahmins and asked if they had kept the missing golden seeds. Once they were given, the complete rearrangement f the golden seeds into Buddhist scripture of Bodhidharma was fulfilled with correction on the seventh day. The Brahmins as the Ambassador of King Sri Lanka had then given all the treasure of 7 sampans to the young monk as tributes. However , the young monk turned everything away and gave them all to the King.

  Being the favorite to King Ekadasaroth of Ayudhya with his knowledge and wisdom, Bhikku Pu had been bestowed upon the Sangha title of "Somdej Phra Rajamuni Samiramagunupamacarya" the highest rank ever given to any pedestrian monks before in the country.

  When Luang Pu Thuad was back to Wat Pakko, his hometown, he found out the temple was mostly ruined  and sent a message requesting the support of restoring the temple from the King. King Ekadasaroth was pleased to response to Luang Pu Thuad's need, he gave all the supports to the said monastery, graciously issued the Royal Degree on Dedication of Land and people of about 250 families nearby Wat Pakko as beneficial to the temple. The Royal Degree  was later successive to Wat Khian possession and given to Prince Damrong Rajanubhab in 1913. At present, it was kept in the National Library, Bangkok.

  Luang Pu Thuad had spent his life for the sake f impartiality. Lastly, he had vanished from Wat Pakko along with a young novice to preach Dharma and helped people in various places in the south up to Malaysia, Singapore, and Sri Lanka. His second permanent residence was at Wat Changhai, Pattani. His date of decrease is unknown.

  Through his supernatural power, miraculous virtues, Luang Pu Thuad came into manifestation in the imagination and dream of his disciples. From there, his amuletic image was firstly created at Wat Changhai in Be 2497. His amulets have shown many miracles to many experienced individuals from time to time. Many of his amuletic images have been erected again and again. It is believed that in Thailand no any other monk has gained more reverence than Luang Pu Thuad for his amulets are of both increasing numbers and miraculous virtues.   

*The above related story are taken from a Book written by Suwat Hame-Ungkura Urapong Radompeng*

Kruba Krissada (Wat San Phra Chao Deang)

  Kruba Krissada of Wat San Phra Chao Deang is one of the great monk in Northern Thailand who is only 39 years old this year. Just a day before Kruba Krissada was born,which was 8th June Be 2519. In his mother's dream, she dreamt of a precious pearl flying towards her, for her to safe keep and not long after she was about to give birth.Till the next night which is 9th June Be 2519 around 11 pm, she gave birth of a child. Due to the condition of traffic and was raining heavily, that's no way that she can go to the hospital to give birth.The reason why Krissada was given by the parent was because due to the reason that the name is similar to the mother's dream. When Kruba Krissada was born, that's an image of lotus on his right leg which is still very obviously shown till now.
  
  As a child , Kruba Krissada is a very hardworking, intelligent,humble, love caring and filial son. But due to his poor health, he always falls sick. Due to the influence of his grandpa, he has started to study Buddhism Dharma at a very young age. During the grandpa free time, he always brought Kruba Krissada to temples to do merits. The first time when Kruba Krissada stared at the Buddha statue in the temple, he feels that the Buddha was smiling at him and felt incredibly happy. From that day onward, whenever he visit temples with his grandpa, he always does it sincerely and every time when he stares at the Buddha state, he always has the mindset of becoming a monk.

  After completing his studies in primary school, he went to become a monk who practices Buddhism and magical practice  under the guidance of Phra Kru Sol Pom Lai Tanasan Abbot of Wat San Phra Chao Deang and ordained as a monk at the age of 20. While he was practicing Buddhism and magic practice in Wat San Phra Chao Deang.

  While he was studying in Wat San Phra Chao Deang in the year of 2533, that was when he first met Kruba Innda of Wat Huai Sai. After Kruba Innda took him in as a disciple of him, Kruba Krissada feel indescribable excitement due to Kruba Innda is a well-known master for his high knowledge of Buddhist Dharma and magical practice. Due to the reason as Kruba Krissada always travels to visit Kruba Innda as he is keen to gain more knowledge of Buddhist Dharma and magic practice from him as a result, they became very close, just like the relationship between a grandpa and grandson. As Kruba Krissada always travels between the 2 temples, he always fulfills his duties in perfectly satisfactory manner.

   Due to Kruba Krissada is a very hardworking and keen to learn attitude. At the age of 20, he has already memorized 3 of the famous Buddhist scriptures and managed to give a speech about this 3 Buddhist scripture. In 7th May Be 2539, he was officially ordained as a monk under Phra Kru Sol Pom Lai Tanasan as his Preceptor, Luang Pu Sing Kam as his vice Preceptor. After ordained as a monk for 5 years , he was appointed as the Abbot of Wat San Phra Chao Deang at the age of 25 due to his knowledge in Dharma and his attitude towards Buddhism Practice. In the Kruba Krissada mindset, his priority is to expand the temple's build around and repairing of Wat San Phra Chao Deang. 

 Below are some of the master whom he learned magical practice and Dharma from:

Phra Kru Sol Pom Lai Tanasan (Preceptor)
Luang Pu Sing Kam
Kruba Innda (Wat Huai Sai)
Kruba Inn Inntro (Wat Falang)
Kruba Kan Lak
Luang Phor Pisado