Pra Gru Tham Suea - sale for Merit Making

Pra Gru Tham Suea (Hnaa Gae) - Supannburi

I have a few of these given to me by Luang Por Dte of Wat Pah Maha Chanokas a thank you for helping to raise funds for the completion of the seven Birthday Buddha images at the temple. I now wish to raise more funds for Luang Por Dte to buy 'Glod' Parasols and mosquito nets for Monks and Lay practitioners to use when visiting the temple for practice, and to help finish the completion of the Sala so that devotees have a place to come and pay worship and pray.

I have had a few seasoned amulet dealers look at these and all of them confirmed them to be of considerable age. They can be (and are), classed as a submember of the Benjapakee family of amulets and are considered one of the classics. I will donate all the funds from the purchase of this amulet to the temple of Wat Pah Maha Chanok to continue the projects. You can either pass the funds through me if you already know/and or trust me or deposit directly in the temples bank acct. If you deposit in the temples bank acc then oyu should send me scan of the transfer slip so i can confirm it with Luang Por, and then send you the amulet. I have already written about Luang Por Dte here on the blog and about Pra Gru Tham Suea. Try the 'search this blog' search module using these two terms and see whats there to find out more about the origins of this amulet and the temple of Wat Pah Maha Chanok. I believe these amulets to be sacred. They were buried at the temple by a monk who wandered there on Tudong from Supannburi. He left various amulets there, nost of them being Pra Gru Tham Suea, with a few other rare amulets such as Luang Por Dto Gru bang Grating, and Somdej Rasamee (Khun Phaen Perd Maan). There was also one from India which i kept for myself, and also published for viewing on this blog.

Price of making Merit and receiving this amulet; 2000 Thai Baht (plus whatever you wish if you like to donate more).

Bank Details;
Krung Thai Bank (Bangkok Bank)
Acct. # 054170594185
Branch/Office 824 Klong Tom
Krabi
Thailand

I am not sure if the acct. is in the name of the temple or the abbot so shall post this later in case it is needed. To rent an amulet from me, you can use the safe payment methods included in the post, contact me using the contact Button provided, Or Phone +66886799251(Thailand).

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Khunphaen Perd Maan - Somdej Rasamee

The Mysterious Khun Phaen Amulets found in Way Pah Maha Chanok; I have been lucky enough to have recieved some of these amulets as a gift from Luang Por, which i have decided to distribute and raise more funds for the development of Wat Pah Maha Chanok. Till now we have recieved donation from very kind person from Singapore who has paid for the completion of the seven Buddha statues in the temple, and now Luang Por plans to finish the Dhamma salon and then go on to building a Buddha statue, after he has raised funds enough to buy ten 'Glod' (umbrellas with tent like mosquito nets for forest monks to meditate in).

I have decided to try to raise funds for the 'Glod' and mosquito nets by renting out a few of these amulets, which are now almost completely run out. Five of these available for rent. There have been various opinions and theories about where this amulet comes from and who made it, but all we really know is that a Tudong Forest monk wandered down here to Krabi from Supann Buri and buried the amulets here that he had brought with him. There were several kinds of amulet in his buried treasure trove, including these ones, which Luang Por at Wat Pah maha Chanok calls 'Khun Phaen Perd Maan'. I myself would call it 'Somdej Rasamee', because of its similarity of aura to those in the Luang Phu Sukh amulets from Wat Pak Klong Makham Tao.

One of these was rented out to a Singaporean devotee who responded back that the amulet glowed red as he chanted. There is anyway something strange and also miraculous about Wat Pah Maha Chanok, so i can believe that this amulet also has something special.

Rental Price; 70$US or 93$SG

Renting one of these amulets is in part making Merit because a large part of the proceedings go back to the temple

To rent an amulet from me, you can use the safe payment methods included in the post (if any are there), Or, Contact Me using the contact Button provided, Or Phone +66886799251(Thailand).

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Sakyamuni Buddha amulet - India

This is one of four amulets i found buried at Wat Pah Maha Chanok. They were apparently brought by amonk who travelled to India and brought them back with him, leaving them at Wat Pah Maha Chanok.  This amulet is as far as i know nameless, so i wish to give it a name;

Somdet Pra Arahant Sakyamuni (Chompoo Taweep)

Please click on the images to view enlarged and admire the surface texture of this beautiful amulet. Its not for rent, i am keeping it myself, but i want to share it with you all for appreciation value, and to incite more appreciation and preference for pure Buddhist related amulets such as Pra Somdej amulets,and other representations of the Buddha and other Arahants (such as Saributra and Sivali amulets too). I believe that many of us have forgotten that Buddhists should look to Buddha and Dhamma and Sangha for refuge, instead of magical charms and spells. Those who are not Buddhist and only seek magical charms and spells are completely in their right to go for whatever kind of amulet they like to. I myself love to study and collect all kinds of amulets, but the ones i revere and use are all purely Buddhist. Its a matter of preference of course. For me, a Buddha amulet will always be superior and more powerful than any magic spell.

This particular one i have decided not to rent out, rather prefer to keepmyself, because it is from the country where Buddha was born, and that this amulet is a direct representation of the Buddha Sakyamuni himself. Rare is it these days, that Buddhist temples and lay masters make amulets that depict the Buddha.Mostly these days the imagery is more animist or symbolic/magical , than directly related to Buddhism in the sense of reverence to the Buddha, and practice of the Dhamma.

Ancient Buddhist Art from Burma

If what you seek is magical help with your daily problems, then todays general trend of amulet (animistic effigies, charms and deities etc) is what you need, and a modern new amulet is fine. But if what you really seek is an authenic Bhuddhist amulet that is connected the the sacred purity and excellent attainments of the Buddha, and wish to rever an amulet out of pure faith, believing that your refuge is the Buddha, then this kind of amulet is the best thing that you could possess. The same can be said for the Pra Somdej Wat rakang Amulet in the previous post to this one.

The texture of the clay has typical signs of a classic collectors piece, with a grain and porosity that is of the kind which experts and amulet lovers appreciate greatly.

  

Real Buddhist amulets depict the Buddha, or his attainments. The rear side of the amulet depicts important scenes from the life of Buddha. The baked clay is typical ancient style of amulet making and is called "gru", meaning a baked clay amulet that is buried under the main Buddha statue in the shrine of a temple for many years, and then dug up for distribution. Many times, the gru will be forgotten and lost for decades or even centuries, and then are found by accident, as i did these amulets.

To rent an amulet from me, you can contact me on sakyant at windowslive dot com, Or Phone 98323062 (Singapore) or +66886799251(Thailand).

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Rental prices on this blog are all in Singapore dollars Postage per EMS costs 5 dollars in Singapore, and 20 dollars for international delivery up to 500 grams. In Most cases though, you can come to see the amulet in Singapore before you buy it if you wish, by phoning the Singapore number and making an appointment to meet and see the amulet. This will be conducted by my wife, so if you have any difficult questions you must contact me on the email address given above, as my wife cannot answer the more difficult questions.