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This is a growing List of Buddhist Sanghas and Governing Bodies. A sangharaja or patriarch is the senior monk of a Buddhist Sangha . A supreme sangharaja is the head of more than one Buddhist order.
Note: In 1988, Maha Ghosananda was elected Supreme Patriarch by a group of exiled monks in Paris. During this same period, Tep Vong held the same office in the unified Cambodian sangha. After 1991, Tep Vong was recognized as head of the Maha Nikaya in Cambodia. [14]
A group of monks who had been exiled and re-ordained in Vietnam during the Khmer Rouge period were sent to Cambodia, [23] and in 1981 one of their number, Venerable Tep Vong, was elected the first sangharaja of a new unified Cambodia sangha, officially abolishing the division between the Thommayut order and the Mohanikay. [22]
In Cambodia and the former Khmer kingdoms, the sangharaja (Khmer: សង្ឃរាជ sangkhareach) was a senior monk appointed by the king who headed one of the countries monastic fraternities. From the period between 1855 and the beginning of the Khmer Rouge era, one sangharaja existed for the Cambodian branch of the Dhammayuttika Nikaya ...
He agreed to accept the position provisionally, until a complete, independent monastic hierarchy could be established in Cambodia. [10] At the time, Venerable Tep Vong was the titular head of a unified Cambodian sangha, having been appointed to the position in 1981 by the Vietnamese-backed People's Republic of Kampuchea. [11]
Bour Kry was born in Battambang and was ordained as a Buddhist monk in 1963. His early years in the monkhood were devoted to the study of the Pali Canon.In the following years, he was given the spiritual post of Secretary of the Mekon and appointed to the head of a monastery on the Thai-Cambodian border.
Chuon Nath (Khmer: ជួន ណាត; 11 March 1883 – 25 September 1969) was a Cambodian monk and the late Gana Mahanikaya Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia.Amongst his achievements is his effort in conservation of the Khmer language in the form of the Khmer dictionary.
In Cambodia, a similar situation exists. The Dhammayuttika Nikāya was supposedly imported from Thailand in 1855, and those monks remaining outside the Dhammayuttika order were recognized as being members of the Maha Nikāya ( Khmer : មហានិកាយ Mohanikay ).