Luang Pho Khaw Sook Pavilion is located at Bang Baimai temple, Moo 1, Bang Baimai subdistrict, Mueang District, Surat Thani province. Luang Pho Khaw Sook is a sculpture of monk in meditation posture, built by Luang Pho Khum, The former abbot of Bang Baimai Temple, approximately founded in Early-Rattanakosin Period. Luang Pho Khaw Sook is over 100 year old statue made of leftover cooked rice from the begging bowls and covered with brass. There was a mixture of leftover cooked rice which had been through the incantation at the ubosot of Bang Baimai temple for nine days and nights. The name of Luang Pho Khaw Sook actually represents a Dhamma puzzle because “Pho” refers to himself, “Khaw” refers to breadbasket of water, fish, coconut, abundance, and wealth, and “Sook” refers to the happiness, comfort, peach, hardship-free, and sickness-free. The statue was made of 9 sacred elements : for example, 1.Buddha images powder from principle locations, 2. 9 lumps of leftover cooked rice with incantation, 3. Soils beneath 9 important stupas, 4. 9 invulnerable herbal powders, 5. 9 cube powders of red sandstone from Ko Prap, 6. 9 cube powders of red sandstone from the hilltop of Khao Kaew temple, 7. Water from 9 sacred river, which was used in the coronation of the king in Chakri Dynasty. Luang Pho Khaw Sook is a sacramental Buddha image of local people at Bang Baimai village.
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