Luang Phor Chong of Wat NaTangNok

Luang Phor Chong 

Wat NaTangNok 

  One of the top 10 great Guru monks of Thailand was undoubtedly Luang Phor Chong of Wat NaTangNok Temple, BangSai district, Ayuthaya province.

He passed away on the Buddhist important MaKhaBuCha day of February 17th, B.E.2508, at the age of 93.

Luang Phor Chong and Luang Phor Parn of Wat BangNomKho were close friends and respected each others high Dhamma practice.. They had the same teachers viz LP Soon of Wat BangPlaMoh and LP Paan of Wat PikulSokant.

Even though Luang Phor Parn reached extremely high miraculous knowledges of "Apinya" and "Wipassana", he still admired Luang Phor Chong and recognised him as a great monk.

Once in the evening Luang Phor Chong was taking a rest at the pier in front of his temple, a small group of men rowed across the canal. After tying a boat rope to a pier hook, one said unrespectably to Luang Phor Chong, "Luang Phor, would you guard my boat because I was told that there are many thieves around here."

The old Luang Phor Chong said slowly and mercifully to that man," Alright, I'll guard your boat as mine...don't worry." The group of men came back to the pier at around midnight, they saw Luang Phor Chong still sat alone at the pier. "Wow, how great it is, you're still sitting here for so many hours, I thank you for guarding my boat," said a man. "You ordered me to guard your boat, I did as you said," Luang Phor Chong said slowly to the man.

But at the evening of the next day, the men came to Luang Phor Chong's Kuti(monk's house) with flowers, incenses and candles on their hands. They had paid obeisance to Luang Phor Chong and said " I come here to apologize for ordering you to guard my boat, I have been told that the you are Luang Phor Chong, so please forgive all of us for doing a great sin, please grant us your apology." " Huh,huh...alright...you ordered me and I did it for you ...it's no sin .....from now on remind yourself do not order any monk as your servant," said Luang Phor Chong.

He also taught them a short brief of Buddha's Dhamma. All the men listened quietly and wept, then they pay obeisance with full respect to Luang Phor Chong's legs.

Luang Phor Chong was also a great donor. Any temple troubled with lacking of Kutis, he would order his monk disciples dismantle them and brought to the lacking temple. Even when thieves came into his temple to steal valuble and rare items, Luang Phor Chong knew and asked them to get them items instead. Yes, he gave stuffs to thieves but never forgot to taught them that stealing monk's stuffs was a great sin.

Many thieves gave up stealing by his teachings. Luang Phor Parn of Wat BangNomKho admired Luang Phor Chong to all his disciples that he was like a gold monk statue, and that a monk of this kind one should never beg anything from him because he would give everything that was begged for.

Whenever Laung Phor Parn performed any religious ritual at his temple, he would invite Luang Phor Chong to join. Once Luang Phor Parn urged his close monk disciple to go by a motor boat to invite Luang Phor Chong to join a ritual , but Luang Phor Chong told the monk to go back in advance and he would go by himself later. As soon as the monk had come back and reported to Luang Phor Parn that Luang Phor Chong would come later, Luang Phor Parn laughed mildly and pointed to Luang Phor Chong who was sitting right there!! How did he come with a short time? It's many miles distance between the two temples, if going by walking it would take a few hours.

It was recorded that Luang Phor Chong reached the highest knowledge of "PatiSamPhiThaYan" which covered highest ability to perform miracle of all kinds. Whoever reaches this state will have comprehensive knowledges over all Tri Pitaka automatically and could rush to anywhere in a short time.

Luang Phor Chong created many kinds of amulets since World War II, such as medals, small statues, ivory-tusk Rajasihas, metal Ta Pian fish , sacred jackets, etc. His amulets are very good for warding off dangers of all kinds, while his Ta Pian fish is good for fortune fetching.

Ayudhaya, an ancient city of Thailand was established around 700 years ago, and just like other provinces of the country experienced the devastation of World War II that destroyed the lives and property of countless people.

It is said Ayudhaya were more fortunate than many other provinces because legend has it that some senior holy monks used their magic power as protection against the bombs.

It was well known amongst the locals of Ayudhaya that during World War II, Luang Phor Chong had tried to protect the province and the lives of the innocent by sprinkling his sacred sand from a plane onto the land below. After which many miracles were recorded particularly the unusually high proportion of unexploded bombs.

Luang Phor Chong was a senior monk at Wat NaTangNok who was quite prominent in creating various kinds of sacred things, apart from the sacred sands, he also created Takruts, Prapong, Pha Yants, etc., and all of his amulets were famous for protecting people from bullets, bombs, accidents and other kinds of danger.

Though Luang Phor Chong has passed away for several years many locals of Ayudhaya still recall his virtues and dedication to the province during the war. It is for this reason that his amulets attract premium prices which continually rise.

LP Chong's Tapian Fish

 LP Chong of Wat NatangNok made Tapian fish in B.E.2497. There is a Thai word on the Tapian fish's abdomen specified its sex--male or female. And at the top fin there will be a hole for inserting a thread for hanging in the shop or house while many put the Tapian couple on their shirt pocket. In up-country, a lot of farmers hang Tapian fish in his crop-house to protect insects.

 

Lp Chong Tapian fish early batch

LP Chong's Tapian Fish Rare Early Batch