Ajaan Suwat Suvaco

Ajaan Suwat Suvaco
Personal life
Born	(1919-08-27)27 August 1919
Died	5 April 2002(2002-04-05) (aged 82) Buriram, Thailand
Nationality	Thai
Religious life
Religion	Buddhism
Order	Dhammayuttika Nikaya
School	Theravāda
Lineage	Thai Forest Tradition

Ajaan Suwat Suvaco (27 August 1919 – 5 April 2002), born in Thailand, was a Buddhist monk who founded four monasteries in the western United States. Ordained at the age of twenty, he became a student of Ajaan Funn Acaro two or three years later, and also studied briefly with Ajaan Mun.

Following Ajaan Funn's death in 1977, Ajaan Suwat stayed on at the monastery to supervise his teacher's royal funeral and the construction of a monument and museum in Ajaan Funn's honor. In the 1980s Ajaan Suwat came to the United States, where he established his four monasteries: one near Seattle, Washington; two near Los Angeles; and one in the hills of San Diego County (Metta Forest Monastery). He returned to Thailand in 1996, and died in Buriram on 5 April 2002, after a long illness.

External links

Articles by Ajaan Suwat Suvaco

• Ajaan Suwat - Index collection of talks and books accesstoinsight.org
• Fistful of Sand & The Light of Discernment: Teachings of Phra Ajaan Suwat Suvaco
• The Intelligent Heart : Five Dhamma Talks