Luang Pu Poo (Lp Poo / Lp Pu / Lp Phu) Wat Intharawihan

In an old quarter of Bangkok where the Chao Phraya breathes mist over temple roofs, a young novice named Poo bowed daily before his teacher — Somdej Phra Buddhachan (Toh Phrommarangsi) of Wat Rakhang. He came from a devout household, ordained early at Wat Intharawihan, and threw himself into the grammar of practice: Dhamma study, meditation, and the sacred sciences behind ritual and amulet making.

Under Somdej Toh’s eye he learned the slow, exacting method for Phong Itthijay, Phong Maha Lap, and Phong Maha Ud — powders folded through prayer and restraint until they felt less like ingredients than memory made tangible. When Somdej Toh passed in BE 2415 (1872), Luang Pu Poo stayed with the work: caring for Wat Intharawihan, deepening meditation, and carrying the lineage forward without fuss or claim.

As abbot, he guided the community and helped steward the completion of the temple’s towering image, Phra Buddha Sri Ariyametri (Luang Pho To). People came for counsel and for the Phra Somdej he pressed in the Wat Rakhang tradition — objects meant not for trade but as anchors for practice. By the time he passed in BE 2476 (1933), the monk the city called simply “Luang Pu Poo” had become a reference point: a quiet guardian of a crucial chapter in Thai Buddhist craft and devotion.

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