Consecrated Thai Buddha Statue - Phra Bucha Luang Pho Ban Laem Buddha statue 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 before loading on the ship by Luang Phi Kaweerat and 8 other monks. The second consecration occurred after their arrival in Germany and the third and last consecation the venerable Luang Phi Kaweerat carried out in the 8/25/2010 in Wat Katanyutaram in Kiel.
The 350 year-old Luang Pho Ban Laem bronze Buddha statue stands in the Ubosoth of Wat Ban Laem and is only 167 cm high.
During the Thai New Year party (Songkran) which is called also water festival thousands of believers come of the whole province to the Wat Ban Laem to splash the holiest Buddha statue of the province, the Luang Pho Ban Laem, with water. This temple party which is in the time of the Songkran takes place yearly from the 13th of April to the 19th of April.
The two-part Buddha statue offered here is a perfect image of the Luang Pho Ban Laem standing in the Wat Ban Laem. Just as with the original statue in Wat Ban Laem, the Bat is not firmly connected with the statue but it was separate specially poured. Such statues are extremely rare, because 99% of all Phra Um Bat statues are poured together with the Bat.
The Buddha statue is approx. 36 cm high, approx. 8.5 cm wide, approx. 8.5 cm deep and approx. 990 grammes. The engraving "Luang Pho Wat Ban Laem" is on the front
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.
