Kee Nanayon

Upasika Kee Nanayon (Thai: กี นานายน) or Kor Khao-suan-luang (ก. เขาสวนหลวง) was a Thai Buddhist upāsikā (devout laywoman) from Ratchaburi (1901 - 1978).[1] After her retirement in 1945, she turned her home into a meditation center with her aunt and uncle.[2] She was mostly self-taught, reading the Pali canon and other Buddhist literature.[3] Her dhamma talks and poetry were widely circulated. As word of her spread, she became one of the most popular female meditation teachers in Thailand. Many of her talks have been translated into English by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, who sees her as "arguably the foremost woman Dhamma teacher in twentieth-century Thailand".[3]

Upasika Kee Nanayon

Publications
  • Upasika K. Nanayon, An unentangled knowing: lessons in training the mind, Buddhist Publication Society, 1996.
  • Upasika Kee Nanayon, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Pure and simple: teachings of a Thai Buddhist laywoman, Somerville, 2005
  • "Breath Meditation Condensed".

References
  1. Donald K. Swearer, The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia, SUNY Press, 2010, s. 13.
  2. Kassam, Zayn R. (2017). Women and Asian Religions. ABC-CLIO. p. 320. ISBN 978-0-313-08275-7.
  3. Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Upasika Kee Nanayon and the Social Dynamic of Theravadin Buddhist Practice , 1995
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