Ajaan Suwat Suvaco
Personal
Born(1919-08-27)27 August 1919
Died5 April 2002(2002-04-05) (aged 82)
Buriram, Thailand
ReligionBuddhism
NationalityThai
SchoolTheravāda
LineageThai Forest Tradition
OrderDhammayuttika Nikaya

Ajaan Suwat Suvaco (27 August 1919 – 5 April 2002), born in Thailand, was a Buddhist monk who founded four monasteries in the western United States. Ordained at the age of twenty, he became a student of Ajaan Funn Acaro two or three years later. He also studied briefly with Ajaan Mun.

Following Ajaan Funn's death in 1977, Ajaan Suwat stayed on at the monastery to supervise his teacher's royal funeral and the construction of a monument and museum in Ajaan Funn's honor. In the 1980s Ajaan Suwat came to the United States, where he established his four monasteries: one near Seattle, Washington; two near Los Angeles; and one in the hills of San Diego County (Metta Forest Monastery). He returned to Thailand in 1996, and died in Buriram on 5 April 2002, after a long illness.[1]

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