One of probably the most revered monks within the kingdom has died on the age of eighty five. The Bangkok Post reviews that Somdet Phra Wannarat, who was abbot of Wat Bowonniwet Vihara, a significant Buddhist temple in Bangkok, died yesterday after dropping his battle with gall bladder cancer. He had served as abbot on the temple since 2015. According to Best selling , the elderly monk died at Chulalongkorn Hospital, where he had been undergoing treatment. His death has been confirmed by Sipboworn Kaewngam, director of the National Office of Buddhism.
Somdet Phra Wannarat was beforehand often identified as Jun Prampitak and was born within the jap province of Trat in September 1936. He became a novice monk after leaving Wat Khiri Vihara School at the age of 12. At the age of 20, he moved to Wat Bowonniwet Vihara in the capital. There he was given full monk standing in a ceremony led by the Supreme Patriarch, head of the order of Buddhist monks in Thailand..