Original Luang Pho Wat Rai Khing Thai Buddha statue (Phra Bucha) Nuea Thong Daeng Loha from the venerable Luang Phi Kaweerat (Phra Khru Samut Kaweerat), abbot of Wat Satthayalai and the Holistic meditation Centre, Ban Had Nang Rum, Tambon Plutaluang, Amphoer Sattahip, Changwat Chonburi, Thailand, from 2004.
The Buddha statues were consecrated several times, first after the downpour and then before the transport from Nakhon Pathom to Kiel, by the venerable Luang Phi Kaweerat and 8 other monks. The third consecration occurred after their arrival in Germany, and the last consecration the venerable Luang Phi Kaweerat performed in the 8/25/2010 in Wat Katanyutaram in Kiel.
Wat Rai Khing which originally was called Wat Mongkol Chinda Ram Rai Khing was founded in 1791 and lies directly at the Chai Si river. Wat Rai Khing is a royal temple 3rd class. There is a total of approx. 100 royal temples in Thailand.
The Luang Pho Wat Rai Khing is one of the holiest Buddha statues of the province Nakhon Pathom. The legend of the Luang Pho Wat Rai Khing is similar to the legend of the Luang Pho Phra Sai of Wat Po Chai in Nong Khai.
The Luang Pho Wat Rai Khing should have been floating in the Chao Praya river close Ayutthaya where he was salvaged by the inhabitants and was brought to the Wat Sala Poon. Later, when Wat Rai Khing was completed, the Luang Pho Rai Khing was brought from the Wat Sala Poon to the Wat Rai Khing.
The statue is a perfect image of the original Luang Pho Wat Rai Khing who condescends in the Bot of Wat Rai Khing to the visitors.
The statue is approx. 23.5 cm high, approx. 18 cm wide and approx. 10.50 cm deep, as well as approx. 1,250 grammes. At the back there is the engraving "Wat Luang Pho Sothon Germany".
With the acquisition of the Phra Bucha you acquire at the same time Tambun (religious salaries), because we offer the Buddha-Statue as a mediator in the name of and by order of the venerable Luang Phi Kaweerat. The acquisition is to be looked as Dhana (donation) to Wat Satthayalai.
Because no successor was found for Wat Katayutaram, this was closed in the 8/31/2010. The venerable Luang Phi Kaweerat who is the namesake and, so to speak, the "godfather" of the oldest daughter of our manager asked her husband, to take the holy objects from Wat Katayutaram and to lend (sell) them by order for the financing of the construction of Wat Satthayalai in Satthahip.
Strictly speaking one cannot buy Thai amulets, Buddha-statues and other holy objects from a Thai temple, one can “rent” them only for an indefinite time. Besides, the renting period can also continue about endlessly many generations. Nevertheless, the German right does not know this kind of renting, so that in our offers always a purchase price must be quoted and not a rental price (Bucha).
Luang Phi Kaweerat was active for more than 10 years in Germany as a monk, among other things as the abbot of Wat Luang Pho Sothon Germany in Kraihtal and of Wat Katanyutaram in Kiel. First he was on the move as a wanderings monk in the whole of Germany and the European foreign countries. Then later he founded Wat Luang Pho Sothon Germany and Wat Katanyutaram.
Now because of his experience which he has gained during his work, particularly with German and Dutch Thai Buddhists he builds up in Sattahip the Wat Satthayalai with meditation centre. There western Buddhists will also be able to ordain to the monk (Buat Phra) or to the „Buddhist nun“ Chi Pram (Buat Pram) without knowledge of the Thai writing and language in the future.
Luang Phi Kaweerat ordained in 1985 in the Wat Thamfad, Tambon Kao Noi, Amphoer Thamuang, Changwat Kanchanaburi, Thailand, to the monk. His teacher was the venerable Luang Pho Samlit, in his lifetime abbot and builder of Wat Thamfad, who belonged to the greatest monks of the province of Kanchanaburi. Then later he also instructed his friend, the venerable Luang Pho Watchara, the today's abbot of Wat Thamfad whom he also brought first sometimes to Germany.
