Birth
Kruba Aliyachart was born on January 9th, 2524 Thai Calendar (Friday) in Noi Village which located in Sarapee District, Chiang Mai Province. He is the youngest among the three children. His real name was Suchat.
When his mother was pregnant, she dreamt of big white yant cloth which was very clean and pure. She couldn't help but loving it. The second time his mother dreamt of entering bedroom and the house was gold in color. When Suchat was born, the doctor told his mother to educated the child with proper care as he would be an outstanding person when he grown up.
The doctor had seen many babies but he never saw someone with the similar traits like Suchat. He is beautiful with beautiful skin color, big eyes, long ears, thin & long palms & feet. The doctor had named him as "Geng", meaning splendid in Thai. Thai people believed that these are symbols of blessing (good fortune) . Suchat has white skin and smart. He learnt faster and understood better in learning if compared to others at the same age. He never showed off or became arrogant of his cleverness.
His parents worked in farm, so he had been helping them in farm since his young age, farming, watering, fertilizing, harvesting rice straw and vegetables. He was their best helper.
Childhood
At age of seven or eight, once he saw a fisherman fishing. The fish was struggling in the net and looked painful. Suchat did not understand why the animals had to be treated like this and thus secretly letting go all the fishes. From then on, he started to have unanswered questions about life. He was kind and always set the animals free since childhood. He would secretly set the animals free whenever he saw his father or neighbour catching fishes or frogs.
At age of 9, his mother was busy with work until she had no time to go to the temple. Thus she would let Suchat sent the food for the monks in temple after preparing it. Therefore, at age of 12, Suchat was already proficient in reciting Buddhist scriptures than other children of same age. Suchat loved to make Buddha statue by muds. His friends always laughed at him whether he wanted to be a monk master. However he never answered nor angry with them.
Suchat was not only keen at learning but also very hardworking. Besides studying in school, he also learnt from master in temple during his free time.
Become novice
Suchat intended to learn Buddha dharma at age of 12. After negotiating with his parents, he started to learn dharma at Wat Chaichana in Lamphun province. He just finished his primary study that time and already had the thought to be ordained as monk. He raised the wish to his parents but was refused by his mother. She hoped that Suchat could finish his junior high school first before becoming a monk. Thus, Suchat continued his junior high and raised the issue again to his mother after finishing his study. However, his request was still denied by his mother. It was because his eldest brother was weak in health and elder brother had already been married. Suchat was the only boy left to help around at home. After his mother found out & understood his thought later, she only agreed him to ordain as monk.
Young Kruba Aliyachart (front left) already had huge interest in learning Buddha dharma in young age.
Kruba Chantip knew that Suchat was a clever child and had the blessing in Buddhism. Thus he had passed on all his knowledge to Suchat, taught him to read Lanna script and black magic. Kruba Aliyachart learnt it well and his scripture writing was beautiful. Kruba Chantip was satisfied with his performance.
Kruba Chantip was getting older that time. He made sacred objects and let Suchat to write the scriptures. What had been assigned had been done perfectly nice by Suchat. It was later proved that the scriptures he written had the same efficacious effect as his mentor. Suchat is a genius in learning Buddha dharma. Kruba Chantip used to say the boy had good blessing in Buddhist and named him after Aliyachart, meaning wisdom of wise man.
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Novice Suchat and Kruba Chantip
When Kruba Chantip passed away, Aliyachart wrote the obituary himself and pasted it in the temple and around the urban & rural areas. One day, a famous master from Chiang Mai, Kruba Zhaotieng came to attend the funeral ceremony. He saw the beautiful and powerful writing on the obituary and asked who wrote it. Then he met Aliyachart and had conversation with him. After their conversation, Aliyachart who was still in his upper year of senior high school at age 17, decided to become a novice. His Buddhist name is Novice Aliyachart.
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Kruba Zhaotieng
Walking Practice
Aliyachart became a novice at 17 year-old and lived in Wat Chaimongkol for a period. He wanted to travel and practice, finding master to learn Buddhist scriptures & magic. It was not simple for a 17 year-old young novice to practice outside but he intended to complete it himself staunchly. In Thailand, the northern practice is not strict as southern practice. In general, in the religious field only monks could leave the temple to walk and practice Buddhism. Aliyachart was not at the level of monk that time but he insisted to do the practice alone. He went to Phrae province to learn Buddha dharma. In his own learning, he needed to go into deep mountain to practice or meditate in crude hut. He heard that Achan Manid had great magic power and then he headed to Wat Bandid to learn the magic from him. Achan Manid was building a temple at that time so he learnt magic and helped him building the temple at the same time. After his learning was complete, he proceed to learn Buddha dharma from Achan Bud.
He faced many obstacles during his travel practice. Sometimes he would practice in the forest or graveyard at night but he was not afraid at all and never gave up.
In the process of his practice, he met two important nuns in Nan Province. There were both close people to the Prince and had helped Kruba Sri Wichai to build the road up to Dot Suthep. When the two nuns saw Aliyachart, they told him to take good care of himself as he would have developed in Buddhism in future. He is someone with blessing from Buddhism. Meanwhile, the two nuns called the young novice as Kruba Aliyachart. Disciples were agreed and followed to call him as Kruba. (Kruba is the honorific name to master.)
Short break in practice
During his practice, he seldom had contact with his family. Therefore, his family was worried about his situation and thus asked someone to deliver the message that his mother was sick and had been hospitalized for few days. He was worried and upset so he canceled his practice right away and went home to visit his mother. When he returned home, he then only knew that his family was worried about him and wanted him to finish his Buddha dharma study first before leaving for practice. He understood of their anxieties and agreed to go practice after finishing his learning.
His families worried that he would hurt or in danger because he was very young and didn’t finish Buddha dharma. They hoped that he could finish Buddha dharma then doing practice. He understood his families so he promised his mother that he would finish learning.
In 2542 Thai calendar, the abbot of Wat Chaimongkol passed away. The 18 year-old Kruba Aliyachart had to return to Wat Chaimongkol to temporarily take over the temple. He officially ordained as monk at age 20 on April 28th 2544 Thai Calendar.
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Temple Building
When he was 25 years old, which was on May 9th 2549 Thai calendar, he decided to build his own temple. Kruba Aliyachart pursued the practicing of the well-known Kruba Sri Wichai from nothern Thai. Therefore, he had built a self-image statue of Kruba Sri Wichai in the temple. His purpose of building the temple was to make it a convenient place for monks in nothern Thai to practice without the hardship to go to the northest Thai of Chiang Mai. It was also to let the worshipers of Kruba Sri Wichai to come to pray there.
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Statue image of Kruba Sri Wichai
Kruba Aliyachart is 32 years old now. What he had been experienced was harder than other monks since he had entered the practicing level alone in earlier age. He was not regret with his choices but instead he is more hardworking in practicing now.
In nothern Thai there are many experienced monks aged up to 90 and practicing in deep mountain. They occassionally got down of mountain and seen in town. Kruba Aliyachart would grasp the opportunity to get advice in Buddha dharma from them. He received guidance not only from masters but also famous white robe master. He never stopped and had fairly extensive learning. He even practiced in seclusion. He used to isolate himself for 13 days by digging a 3 meters hole underground and meditated over there. He was able not to eat nor drink since he had deep practice level. This is also why he could have such an outstanding result in this young age.
Name's Origin
Peacock is the symbol of the temple and Kruba Aliyachart. It is because of the symbol he drew is similar to peacock image and the scripture symbol has the protection result. He would consecrate it to have the effect to avoid danger and disaster. The symbol had then automatically become his representative and he is named as King of Peacock.
Kruba Aliyachart is good at using the peacock scriptures on his sacred objects. He has special affinity with this divine bird. Peacock is known as the king of birds. It does not only represent the symbol of wealth and power, it is also very auspicious and deeply loved by worshipers.
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