Khun Yai: The Builder of the Dhammakaya Temple : หน้า 9/135

AN AMAZING WOMAN With two bare hands and a mere savings of 3,200 Baht (equivalent to US$160 at that time), Khun Yai managed to build the Dhammakaya Temple of Thailand, the biggest Buddhist temple in the world, where thousands of Buddhist monks live a virtuous life and preach goodness to all of mankind. There are numerous stories about Khun Yai's extraordinary mental powers and her abilities to recall her own past lives as well as the past lives of others. Despite her lack of education and her inability to read or write, Khun Yai's insights and wisdom have inspired millions of people around the world. Khun Yai is not only a builder of a great temple but she is also a builder of great people. The foundation for the orderly monastic practices and the good mannerism for laypeople laid out by Khun Yai have brought respect to Buddhist monks as well as the Buddhist religion. Khun Yai was loved and revered by many. At her Cremation Ceremony in 2001, 100,000 Buddhist monks from 30,000 temples all over Thailand, senior monks from twenty different countries, and hundreds of thousands of others from around the world came to pay their final respect to Khun Yai. This was the biggest assembly of monks in Buddhist history. This book is a collection of Khun Yai's teachings packed with practical and inspiring life lessons. Follow these teachings and you will be certain to have a better life, in both the material sense and the spiritual sense.