Background
Thongsuk Samdaengpan was born on 1 August 1900 at Baan Saphan Lueang, Bangrak District, Bangkok. She was the third born to her father Rom and mother Wan.
Thongsuk Samdaengpan was born on 1 August 1900 at Baan Saphan Lueang, Bangrak District, Bangkok. She was the third born to her father Rom and mother Wan.
She had no formal education and was illiterate. She was accepted as a researcher in Phramonkolthepmuni’s Meditation Workshop while being allowed to teach meditation outside the temple in Bangkok households, such as that of Liap Sikanchananand. In 1936 she accepted Chandra Khonnokyoong as her student.
In 1938, she went on a one-month meditation retreat at Wat Paknam, at the end of which she renounced the worldly life together with Chandra Khonnokyoong and both ordained as nuns (mae ji) at Wat Paknam.
She was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1960 and died of this on 3 February 1963 at Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen aged 63, having been a nun for 25 years.