Fuang Jotiko
{{short description|Thai Buddhist monk, 1915–1986}}
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| birth_place = Chanthaburi Province{{cite book |last1=Bhikkhu |first1=Thanissaro |title=Awareness Itself |date=2005 |publisher=Metta Forest Monastery |page=4 |edition=2nd |url=https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/Ebooks/AwarenessItself_181215.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210330041556/https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/Ebooks/AwarenessItself_181215.pdf |access-date=11 May 2021|archive-date=2021-03-30 }}
| death_date = {{death year and age|1986|1915}}
| death_place = Rayong Province{{cite web |title=The Thai Forest Traditions |url=https://www.nku.edu/~kenneyr/Buddhism/lib/thai/index.html#fuang |access-date=11 May 2021 |archive-date=10 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220410024748/https://www.nku.edu/~kenneyr/Buddhism/lib/thai/index.html#fuang |url-status=dead }}{{cite book |last1=Bhikkhu |first1=Thanissaro |title=Awareness Itself |date=2005 |publisher=Metta Forest Monastery |page=6 |edition=2nd |url=https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/Ebooks/AwarenessItself_181215.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210330041556/https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/Ebooks/AwarenessItself_181215.pdf |access-date=11 May 2021|archive-date=2021-03-30 }}
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{{Thai Forest Tradition}}
Ajahn Fuang Jotiko (1915{{sfn|Jotiko|1993|p=10}}{{snd}}14 May 1986{{cite web | url-access=limited |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/158093764251191/2371780169549195 |archive-date = 2022-04-27| url = https://www.facebook.com/AjaanLee/posts/2371780169549195:0 |title = Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo on Facebook |website=Facebook}}{{cbignore}}{{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}{{cite web |title=The Thai Forest Traditions |url=https://www.nku.edu/~kenneyr/Buddhism/lib/thai/index.html#fuang |access-date=11 May 2021 |archive-date=10 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220410024748/https://www.nku.edu/~kenneyr/Buddhism/lib/thai/index.html#fuang |url-status=dead }}{{cite book |last1=Bhikkhu |first1=Thanissaro |title=Awareness Itself |date=2005 |publisher=Metta Forest Monastery |page=6 |edition=2nd |url=https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/Ebooks/AwarenessItself_181215.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210330041556/https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/Ebooks/AwarenessItself_181215.pdf |access-date=11 May 2021|archive-date=2021-03-30 }}{{sfn | Shankman | 2008 | p=129}}) was a Thai Buddhist monk and abbot in the Thai Forest Tradition of Theravada Buddhism.{{sfn|Strong|2002|p=353}}
Fuang was a student of Ajahn Lee{{sfn|Ajahn Lee|1991|p=}}{{sfn|Falk|2015|p=16}} at Wat Asokaram, a monastery near Bangkok. After Ajahn Lee's death in 1961, Fuang continued at Wat Asokaram where he was expected to become abbot.{{sfn|Wat Asokaram|2004}}{{better source needed|{{subst|DATE}}|date=February 2020}} However, in 1965 Fuang left to pursue greater solitude which he felt would improve his meditation practice. About 1971,{{sfn|Wat Asokaram|2004}}{{better source needed|{{subst|DATE}}|date=February 2020}} Fuang moved to Wat Thamma Sathit in Rayong Province, where he lived as abbot until his death in 1986.{{sfn|Bullitt|1999}} Fuang's students included American monk Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu,{{sfn|Lopez|2016|p=71, 152, 174}}{{sfn|Ajahn Lee|1991|p=}}{{sfn|Falk|2015|p=16}} who studied with him for ten years.{{sfn|Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu|2013|p=6}}
Published works
- {{cite web |last=Jotiko |first=Fuang |year=1999 |orig-year=1980 |title=A Single Mind |translator-last=Bhikkhu |translator-first=Ṭhānissaro |location=Barre, MA |publisher=Barre Center for Buddhist Studies |url=https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/fuang/single.html}}
- {{cite book |last=Jotiko |first=Fuang |title=Awareness itself: The teachings of Ajaan Fuang Jotiko |translator-last=Bhikkhu |translator-first=Ṭhānissaro |location=Valley Center, CA |publisher=Metta Forest Monastery |year=1993 |oclc=46311461 |url=https://archive.org/details/awarenessitself00jotiarch }}
- {{cite book |last=Jotiko |first=Fuang |date=1999 |title=Awareness itself: The teachings of Ajaan Fuang Jotiko |translator-last=Bhikkhu |translator-first=Ṭhānissaro |edition=Revised |location=Barre, MA |publisher=Barre Center for Buddhist Studies |url=https://accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/fuang/itself.html}}
- {{cite web |last=Jotiko |first=Fuang |year=1998 |orig-year=1978 |title=Timeless and True |translator-last=Bhikkhu |translator-first=Ṭhānissaro |location=Barre, MA |publisher=Barre Center for Buddhist Studies |url=https://accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/fuang/timeless.html}}
- {{cite web |last=Jotiko |first=Fuang |date=2001 |orig-year=1984 |title=Listen Well |translator-last=Bhikkhu |translator-first=Ṭhānissaro |location=Barre, MA |publisher=Barre Center for Buddhist Studies |url=https://accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/fuang/listenwell.html}}
- {{cite book |last=Jotiko |first=Fuang |author2=Tanishaluo |author3=Fa yuan bian yi qun |title=Xi mie zhi shi : a jiang fang de kai shi |trans-title=When it goes out: Ajaan Fuang's instructions |publisher=Fa yun |year=1996 |isbn=957-99702-7-0 |oclc=818442585 |language=zh}}
Citations
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References
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- {{cite book |author=Ajahn Lee |title=The Autobiography of Phra Ajaan Lee |translator-last=Bhikkhu |translator-first=Ṭhānissaro |publisher=Wat Asokaram |year=1991 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6QzYAAAAMAAJ |oclc=41048944 |asin=B000LUNY52 |hdl=2027/mdp.39015041721310 }}
- {{cite thesis |last=Falk |first=Jordi |date=2015 |title=The Jhānas: A Comparison of Teachings on Absorption Concentration in the Theravadan Tradition |publisher=Bates College |type=BA |url=http://www.jordiceramics.com/uploads/5/6/3/1/56319293/falk_jordi_bates_senior_thesis_april_2015.pdf |access-date=2020-02-23 |archive-date=2020-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223170435/http://www.jordiceramics.com/uploads/5/6/3/1/56319293/falk_jordi_bates_senior_thesis_april_2015.pdf |url-status=dead }}
- {{cite book |last=Lopez |first=A.R. |title=Buddhist Revivalist Movements: Comparing Zen Buddhism and the Thai Forest Movement |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-137-54086-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5xR_DQAAQBAJ&q=Ajahn+Fuang+Jotiko }}
- {{cite book |last=Shankman |first=R. |title=The Experience of Samadhi: An In-depth Exploration of Buddhist Meditation |publisher=Shambhala |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-8348-2401-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lQ_ZzFgJ1AwC&pg=PA129 }}
- {{cite book |last=Strong |first=J.S. |title=The Experience of Buddhism: Sources and Interpretations |publisher=Wadsworth/Thomson Learning |series=Religion Series |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-534-54175-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dk_uAAAAMAAJ }}
- {{cite book |author=Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu |date=2013 |title=With Each & Every Breath: A Guide To Meditation |location=Valley Center, CA |publisher=Metta Forest Monastery |url=https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/Ebooks/WithEachAndEveryBreath_181215.pdf#page=6 |page=6 |access-date=2020-02-24 |archive-date=2020-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625000055/https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/Ebooks/WithEachAndEveryBreath_181215.pdf#page=6 |url-status=dead }}
- {{cite web |last=Bullitt |first=John |date=23 November 1999 |title=Thai Forest Traditions |website=Access to Insight |url=https://accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/index.html#fuang |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000124003819/https://accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/index.html#fuang |archive-date=24 January 2000 }}
- {{cite web |title=Wat Asokaram |series=A guide to meditation centres in Thailand |website=DhammaThai.org |url=http://dhammathai.org/e/meditation/page10.php |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040909200739/http://dhammathai.org/e/meditation/page10.php |archive-date=9 September 2004 |ref={{sfnref |Wat Asokaram |2004}} }}
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Further reading
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- {{cite book |last=Bhikkhu |first=Ṭhānissaro |date=2006 |chapter=Jhana Not by the Numbers |title=Purity of Heart |series=Essays on the Buddhist path |publisher=Metta Forest Monastery |oclc=262847464 |asin=B0021EGVQA |chapter-url=https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/PurityOfHeart/Section0013.html |url= }}
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External links
- [https://www.watmetta.org/photoPageThaiAjaans.html Photograph from Metta Forest Monastery]
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