1. Arrival as first abbot of Wat Bowonniwet

    · Wat Bowonniwet Vihara, Bangkok, Siam (now Thailand)

    Arrival as first abbot of Wat Bowonniwet
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    Mongkut moved from Wat Rajadhiwat to Wat Bowonniwet in a boat procession and became the monastery's first abbot, making it a center of the Dhammayut reform movement.

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