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	Portrait of 
	
	
	Somdet 
	
	
	
	Phrasangkaraat
	
	
	Chao 
	
	
	Krom Luang
	Chinwaralongkorn, the 18th
	
	
					
			Supreme Patriarch 
	of Thailand (fig.), who was 
	appointed to the position (fig.) in 1974 by King 
	
	
	Rama IX (fig.). 
	He was the abbot of 
		
		
		Wat Ratchabophit 
	(fig.) 
	from 1948 until his death in 1988, aged 91. 
	
								
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