Hrian Luean Samonasak Luang Phu Tuad Yiab Nam Tale Jerd
This Luang Por Tuad Medallion is perhaps one of the most famous kinds of LP Tuad amulets as far as shape is concerned. This particular edition was created by Pra Ajarn Tong of Wat Sampao Chey in B.E. 2545. It is named ” Hrian Luean Samonasak”. The dark color of the metal is known as “rom dam” (meaning “black shadow”). Various temples have made LP Tuad medallions (known as “hrian” in Thai) in this shape. Although there are many various editions and temples who have made this amulet, many of them are very collectible and sought after.
Here’s another Luang Por Tuad Medallion to admire – This edition is from Wat Chang Hai made by Pra Kroo Saisope. This edition is known as “Met Dtaeng, Hnaa Pak See Sen”, which means “watermelon seed, four lines on the forehead. This is a pretty sought after and prized amulet because of it having four lines on the forehead being rare to find. This has already become a rather hard amulet to acquire.
Luang Phu Tim was the Abbot of Wat Chang Hai primarily responsible for having created the first ever Luang Por Tuad amulets this world had ever seen. Wat Chang Hai was the temple of Luang Por Tuad himself. These amulets from Wat Chang Hai are the most expensive and sought after of all Luang Phu Tuad amulets in Thai Buddhist Amulet history. Next in line are the LP Tuad amulets made in Wat Sai Khaw by Ajarn Luang Por Nong.
The first ever Luang Por Tuad amulet to have been made by Luang Por Nong in Wat Sai Khaw was in 2508, with the invitation of Wat Chang Hai’s Luang Phu Tim to join in the creation process and the Puttapisek ceremony to bless the amulets. Luang Phu Tim then took all of the amulets to Wat Chang Hai for a further special blessing ceremony where he called upon the spirits of; Luang Por Tuad, luang Por Tuad Hman, Hluang Por Tuad Grai, Luang Por Tuad Lin Dam, and Luang Por Tuad Sittichai to come and preside over the Puttapisek blessing ceremony of the amulets in the Uposata (chapel) of Wat Chang Hai.
After this was completed, Luang Phu Tim took the amulets back to Wat Sai Khaw for another blessing ceremony. This set of amulets has special “Puttakun” qualities (Buddha magical properties), for they contain the special ingredients such as; Din kakyayaks earth (extremely rare and essential in LP Tuad authentic amulets) Glaa Khaw (wheat) and “Khaw Hniaw Dam” (black sticky rice). Din Kakyayaks has certain minerals in it which can be seen in the mixture of the amulet as small white seedy looking spots arising at certain points of the authentic amulets. The wheat instigates development and improvement in life, the sticky rice is for kong grapan power and “maha ud” (gunstopper). The kakyayaks earth is of course great for metta and for kong grapan and has healing properties too to protect against illness.
Luang Phu Tim of Wat phra Khaw Temple, is a maker of some revered and sought after Luang Por Tuad amulets to be found in Thailand. However many people believe him to be the Luang Phu Tim involved in the making of the first ever LP Tuad amulets of Wat Chang Hai – this is erroneous, that is a different Luang Phu Tim. This having been said, due to Luang Phu Tim of Wat pra Khaw’s intimate connection with devotees of Luang Phu Tuad, i feel his story deserves to be presented on this website
Biography of Luang Phu Tim – Wat Pra Khaw, Ayuttaya
Luang Phu Tim Adtasandto was born On a Sunday in 2456 (year of the Ox)of the Buddhist Era, in Tambon Pra Khaw, Ampher Bang Barn, Ayuttaya Province. His original name was Tim Chum Choke Dee. He was the fifth son in the family. His Father worked in the Palace as craftsmen doing work on the carvings, wood engravings and statues of the Palace. His mother was a fermer from birth and still earned her living farming the land. At first, as a young boy, he learned to read and write at home, and later continued learning at the Guti (monk’s hut) in the local temple. Whilst still a young age, L.P.Tim’s father passed away from an illness, and left the five sons to be a burden on their mother. Luang Phu Tim scurried around as best he could to try to find enough money to help his mother and to be able to continue to continue his school studies at the temple – often he would do odd jobs rearing the Buffaloes of the local farmers for a daily wage of 25 sadtang (100 sadtang is one Thai baht). On public holidays he would not rest, but take jobs watching guard over people’s houses whilst they went out to celebrate the public holiday, fo a fee of 50 sadtang. He would then give the money to his mother. The the temple of Wat Pigul opened a school and the term started, but the school had a daily cost of 50 sadtang, and the young Tim didn’t have any money, so he hung around the schoolmaster mornings and evenings trying to butter him up and do favours until one day the teacher felt sorry for him and accepted him to be able to come and learn with the class. He continued his studies there until Pathom 4 (fourth year of primary school – although in those days they didn’t have exams to pass, to study until the fourth year primary was already considered a long time as most children would already have to be working full time at the age of 12). After this LP Tim helped his mother farmin and doing any extra work he could get until the age of 20, when he began wishing to ordain as a Bhikkhu (Monk) in the Buddhasasana . But in those days they had a compulsory national service for all people (in the present day they have a “lottery” where candidates have a chance to pull either a black or a red card out of the box and possibility of not having to serve army time).He remained in national service for one year and three months until his release in the month of July, in the year 2478. He then returned to his home municipality of Pra Khaw with the intention to ordain as a Buddhist Monk and contineu his studies as a way of repaying his mother and to make merit for her. In the time he was a soldier in National service, he had already bought the chanting prayerbook of “Jet Dtamnan” (the conquering of Mara), and learnt to chant it from memory (no mean feat as it is a very long chant).
Below Pic; “Chaan Hmaak” (chewed betel nut amulet” from the mouth of LP Tim – I have two of these, which i may be willing to rent out to the right person who may be devotee in Singapore – one is red and one is white in color and ball shaped. the result of the amulet once complete is that the chewed mas of betel nut becomes hard as stone, so you can put it in a locket case and hang it around your neck.
He was ordained by Luang Phu Puy (Upachaya) of Wat Kwi, Luang Lung Lim was assistant monk, and Luang Por Liw from Wat Pigul was Pra Kammawajariya. After the ordination, Luang Por Tim resided at Wat Pigul in Ampher Bang Barn, Ayuttaya, where he practised and studied the both the “Jet Dtamnan” (seven episodes) and the “Sip Sorng Dtamnan” (twelve episodes) chants, until he was so fluent that he could chant them both from memory, and knew the meaning of them (for Buddhist chants are in Pali, not Thai). After the first rain season, he was upset that unfortunately he was going to have to disrobe to help his mother, who was in great need of him. After some years his mother began to worry why he still had not married and arranged a wife for him, which the yung Tim gave in to her wishes and married and lived the life of a householder. Not much time passed before Tim had to take responsibility and enter National service again due to the Second World War. Once the War was over, he returned to his family. The next chapter in his life was to be the turning point and the beginning of a legen d that left Luang Phu Tim to be acclaimed as one of Thailand’s “Geji Ajarn” and not without reason. he fell victim to the plague, which was spreading aorund the country. Luang Phu Tim tells of this saying he was so thin and could not keep any food inside him and full of fever that he almost died. At the point where everybody including himself was sure that all that remained was for him to take his last breath, he rose his mind in dedicated prayer and begged “please give me a chance to serve the Buddhasasana a little longer in this lifetime” “If then i shall die later, i shall not complain”. Miraculously, his health suddenly began to improve, and he spent the next five years as a layman helping to take care of the Uposot (chapel) in the temple. The he began to think about ordaining and about the forst time he had ordained. He thought what a shame it was that he hadn’t found a “kroo ba Ajarn” (master guru teacher) then, and didn’t really learn much about how to practise as far as the path to enlightenment is concerned. He then was filled with a great strength of intention to ordain one more time, and this time to let go of all worldly desires, find the best path and to maintain his practise under the proper master. On the tenth of April 2441, he was ordained for the second time into the Buddhasasana by Luang Por Sangkh of Wat nam Dtao temple as his Upachaya – he resided once more at Wat Pigul. This time he immersed his self in the practise of Vipassana Kammathana to the fullest extent possible. He was given the practise of Contemplating Sangkhara and Death as the object of focus. Luang Phu Tim tells how someone brought a corpse to the temple and left it in his Guti (hut) so that he could spend the night meditating and contemplating it throughout the night. This corpse had died from tuberculosis and had been burnt in the funeral pyre. Luang Phu Tim spent the night observing it and considering the three conditions of “Aniccang, Dukkhang and Anatta” (Impermanence, Suffering and Non-Self). He overcame the fear of ghosts and fear of death. He continued his practise of Kammathana Vipassana with death as the object of focus until one day he was able to go stay with Master Monk Luang Por Jong of Wat Hna Dtang Nork (Ayuttaya) where he would often spend nights in the cemetery meditating. After some years he moved to reside at Wat Pra Khaw in the Tambon of his birthplace in the year 2491 – when not forced to remain for the rainy season (known as “Khao Pansa”, which is the time where traditionally, monks are not allowed to wander the forest on Tudong), he liked to spend most of his time wanderin the countryside and forest on “Tudong”, where he recieved a vision to do Kammathana contemplation using human bones as the object of focus. He hadn’t been at Wat Pra Khaw for long when, suddenly he was asked to go and take care of Wat Santigaram temple (wat sri kot), due to the fact that this temple found itself without anyone to take care of it. The local secretary of the temple and te local people came to ask Luang Phu Tim to come and help to save the temple by residing as it’s abbot. At first, he refused, because he was dedicated fully to personal practise in Kammathana, but in the end he had to accept the responsibility, because one of his Ajarn (Luang Por Sangkh). Luang Por Tim felt a little disturbed by this event because he had never liked to recieve any kind of fame or recognition or recieve any kind of high status. He remained as abbot of Wat Santigaram for a period of three years and managed to bring much growth and development to the temple until the year 2498, when he was to return to Wat Pra Khaw as it’s abbot. He brought the temple from a half delapidated ond temple into the beautiful and orderly place you can see today, as well as continuing his practise in Kammathana and also finsihing higher studies to complete Batchelor and Master of arts in Buddhism in the year 2500, and in 2512 attained also Honors degree in Dhamma. Throughout the byears he has won the hearts of his people through his goodness and projects to help Society and his dedication in spreading and preserving the Buddhasasana, to the point where he is now considered “Ariyasangha” (saint)
Luang Phu Tim passed away in 2552, his amulets are now becoming ever more in demand since his passing, especially the Pra Khunpaen amulet
Watch his Bio as a video Biography (Thai language)
I was astonished to see this picture of a massive Luang Por Tuad statue in Sweden posted on the Dharma Forums at Dharmathai.com by my Swedish friend and colleague Andreas!
Have a look and see if you are as amazed as i am that Luang Por Tuad’s “baramee” is so great that he has even gone this far!!
This is a Satin Yantra Cloth with Luang Por Tuad on it from Wat Yala. It was created this year to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Wat Yala. The name of this Pha Yant (Yantra Cloth), is “Pha Yant Siddhi Mongkon” – it is a multi facetted blessing Yantra with Nang Kwak, Sariga birds (for good luck in business and charming in love and happiness in the family). and Pra Rahu (protect against ill fortune bad karma and unlucky astrological influences) as well as various Yantrafor Kong Grapan protection and protection from Ghosts, theives and Devils.
I have one single example of this Yantra Cloth for rent here in Singapore. Contact me per Phone, Email or comment if you wish to rent it. It is about 2 feet high
You can contact me on sakyant at windowslive dot com or fone 98323062 (Singapore)
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