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About Luang Pu La Khemapatto (b. 1911)
Luang Pu La Khemapatto, also known as Luang Pu La, was born on 14 February 1911 at Ban Kut Sa in Udon Thani province, northeast Thailand. He was the youngest of eight children in a rice-farming family, and his early life was tied to the work of the fields and the turning of the seasons. His name is also written Luang Pu La Khemapatto (Thai: หลวงปู่หล้า เขมปตฺโต), and sometimes Luang Pu Lha.
On 15 February 1945 he was re-ordained into the Dhammayut order at Wat Pho Somphon in Udon Thani, and lived as a forest meditation monk. In late 1957, while he was staying at Phu Kao in Nong Sung district, villagers from Ban Waeng invited him to settle on the hill of Phu Chok Ko, in what is now Mukdahan province. Until then the hill had been visited only now and then by wandering monks; with a resident teacher it became a settled meditation monastery, now known as Wat Phu Chok Ko or Wat Banphot Khiri, where people could come to practise Dhamma and develop concentration. He lived there for the rest of his life.
After his death, the community built Khemapatta Chedi, a stupa on the summit of the hill completed in 1999, to enshrine his relics. The monastery, reached by a long stairway of stone steps, remains a place of meditation practice in the region.
On this site
This site does not yet hold teachings from Luang Pu La. Teachings will be added here as they are prepared, so that visitors can come to know his words directly alongside those of the other teachers in this library. In the meantime, the pages of other teachers of the Thai Forest Tradition offer many teachings on meditation, simplicity and letting go, the qualities for which the forest monasteries of northeast Thailand are known.