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  Somdet Phra Yanawachirodom

 

Thailand

A portrait of Luang Pho Wiriyang Sirintharoh, a prominent Thai Buddhist monk, Meditation Master Patriarch of the Thammayutnikaai Order in Canada, the first abbot of Wat Thammamongkhon in Bangkok (fig.), and  from 2016 to 2020 acting abbot of Wat Sri Rattana Thammaram in Samut Prakan (fig.). Over his long career, he received numerous ecclesiastical titles, culminating in the rank of Somdet Phra Yanawachirodom in 2020.