Wat Khunaram; Mummified Monk

Visit the Mummified Monk, the remains of Phra Khru Samathakittikhun, the ex-abbott of Wat Khunaram on Ko Samui.

He wasn’t always a monk, for the first fifty years of his life, he was just like any one of us. But on the 1944, he was ordained and dedicated the rest of his life to monkhood. He was then mummified and done so in an upright position according to his wishes, to symbolise the righteous buddhist values and to continuously inspire the future generations to follow the path of buddhism.