Visiting The Oldest Man In The World

[phuketrex]

Let him get over all the media attention from his birthday and finally made it to his Wat today to see him and do a bit of meritmaking.

Morning is not the time to go as that is when they eat and do a lot of chanting. We got there just before 130pm and chanting was still taking place. The abbot was stationed in his personal building and the door was opened at 130pm for us to go inside to a waiting room where there's a prayer mat; money tree; donation boxes and some buddha statues...and parked behind a huge gong the abbots' state of the art electric wheelchair.

So we sat in the room with the great man sitting crosslegged just a few yards away on a raised platform but behind some glass doors. Chanting was still going on and he was listening to it on some speakers alongside him. There were about a dozen people waiting to make merit with him and after about 20 minutes the chanting was over and a monk who was in the room with us went inside to talk to the abbot pulling curtains behind him so we couldn't see them. A few minutes later he pulled back the curtains and came out closing the glass doors behind him to tell us that unfortunately the abbot was having difficulty breathing and wasn't up to meeting with people today :-( Also the abbot had pulled something over his head which looked a bit like a balaclava and we were told we couldn't take any photos as he was not suitably dressed.

So we made some donations and left him. I think if I was 114 years and 15 days old I'd have some breathing problems too! Might try another visit in a few days time.

In a building next to him there is a museum of his life. Looks to have had quite an eventful life and I was surprised to see a tattoo on his arm! From it a recent pic of him>>>

If you want to visit him then you need to go after 130pm. The Luang Pu Supha temple is on the right of the main highway southbound from Central Festival next to the Phunaka golfcourse about 1km before Wat Chalong. The road up to the temple has recently been resurfaced.

[gotlost]

My greatest regards and congratulation to this monk for his age but according to the Guinness World Record

he is NOT the worlds oldest man that Honor goes to a Shigechiyo Izumi 120 years oldof Japan.

[phuketrex]

Correction...he's 113 years and 15 days old and you are WRONG. Try reading what was posted. "The Oldest Man in the World" = the Oldest man living TODAY. Your Japanese man died over 20 years ago!

Edited October 2, 2009 by phuketrex

[gotlost]

Ah Thank you for the correction, I'm sorry it's Kana Chinen of Japan who as of today is 114y 145d. This is verified by the Guinness Book of World Records and the International Supercentenarians. The Honorable monk is not on the list and will not be until his age is verified which as of today it has not.

[phuketrex]

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[twschw]

I thought the oldest living man was Walter Breuning from America. I suppose it changes quickly at these ages.

[phuketrex]

The Abbotts' birthday was on September 17th. Walter Breuning was on the 21st. So the Abbott is 4 days older according to his documentation but it hasn't been verified yet.