Upasika Kee Nanayon () or ''Kor Khao-suan-luang'' () was a Thai Buddhist upāsikā (devout laywoman) from

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(1901 - 1978).Donald K. Swearer, The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia, SUNY Press, 2010, s. 13. After her retirement in 1945, she turned her home into a

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centre with her aunt and uncle. She was mostly self-taught, reading the

Pali Canon The Pāḷi Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhism, Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language. It is the most complete extant Early Buddhist texts, early Buddhist canon. It derives mainly from t ...

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and other

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.Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Upasika Kee Nanayon and the Social Dynamic of Theravadin Buddhist Practice
, 1995 Her

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talks and poetry were widely circulated. As word of her spread, she became one of the most popular female

Bhāvanā ''Bhāvanā'' (Pali;Rhys Davids & Stede (1921–25), p. 503, entry for "Bhāvanā," retrieved 9 December 2008 from "U. Chicago" a Sanskrit: भावना, also ''bhāvanā''Monier-Williams (1899), p. 755, see "Bhāvana" and "Bhāvanā", retri ...

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s in Thailand. Many of her talks have been translated into English by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, who sees her as "arguably the foremost woman Dhamma teacher in twentieth-century Thailand".

Publications

*Upasika K. Nanayon, ''An unentangled knowing: lessons in training the mind'', Buddhist Publication Society, 1996. *Upasika Kee Nanayon, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, ''Pure and simple: teachings of a Thai Buddhist laywoman'', Somerville, 2005
"Breath Meditation Condensed"

References

1901 births 1978 deaths Kee Nanayon Theravada Buddhist spiritual teachers {{Buddhism-bio-stub