Vajirananavarorasa
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Vajirananavarorasa (also spelled Wachirayan, Watchirayanawarorot, correct Pali spelling: Vajirañāṇavarorasa, , full title Somdet Phramahasamanachao Kromphraya Vajirananavarorasa สมเด็จพระมหาสมณเจ้ากรมพระยาวชิรญาณวโรรส ) (12 April 18602 August 1921) was the tenth Supreme Patriarch of Thailand from 1910 to 1921. He helped to institutionalize Thai Buddhism.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Thailand
- Place of birth
- Grand Palace
- Place of death
- Wat Bowonniwet Vihara
- Father
- Mongkut
- Occupation
- Buddhist monk
- Languages spoken
- Thai
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Image
- Photo of Vajirananavaroros, King Prajadhipok Museum (cropped).jpg
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- date of death
- 1921-08-02
- date of birth
- 1860-04-12
- medical condition
- tuberculosis
- cause of death
- tuberculosis
- Commons category
- Vajirañāṇavarorasa
- Commons Creator page
- Vajirananavarorasa
- manner of death
- natural causes
- place of burial
- Wat Bowonniwet Vihara
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6 sectionsContents
- Early life and education
- Ordination and early years in the Sangha
- Middle years
- Later years
- Ancestry
- References
Vajirananavarorasa (also spelled Wachirayan, Watchirayanawarorot, correct Pali spelling: Vajirañāṇavarorasa, , full title Somdet Phramahasamanachao Kromphraya Vajirananavarorasa สมเด็จพระมหาสมณเจ้ากรมพระยาวชิรญาณวโรรส ) (12 April 18602 August 1921) was the tenth Supreme Patriarch of Thailand from 1910 to 1921. He helped to institutionalize Thai Buddhism.
Destined to become "the leading intellectual of his generation in Siam", in the words of the Thai historian David K. Wyatt (cited in Reynolds 1979:xiii), his royal name was Prince Manuṣyanāgamānaba (พระองค์เจ้ามนุษยนาคมานพ) ('he who is a nāga among men'). Vajirañāṇavarorasa is the name he received on a gold nameplate together with the Krommamuen rank on 16 March 1882.
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