amulet code: A287

🔥 PHRA KLEPBUA KRU WAT BANG SAKAE (250 YEARS OLD)

✅> Won 2^nd Prize in competition

✅> Sammakom Certificate

Phra Kleep Bua Kru, Bang Sakae Nok Temple, Thonburi side, BangkoK. This amulet is an original medium-sized natural amulet, old mold, has aged and is in very good condition. Won 2nd prize in the amulet competition. Date: September 23, 2012, organized by the Royal Kingdom Defense College, Class 2009, held at the BITEC Bangna Exhibition and Convention Center. And also verified by Sammakom (Certificate).

In the year 1968. There was a broken clay amulet from an old chedi, an ancient temple in a deep garden near Phlu Market on the Thonburi side, an ancient chedi from the Rattanakosin period. The one behind the temple had collapsed and was about to topple. Because of the water in the canal behind the temple sometimes it overflowed the shore and flooded the base of the pagoda, caused the foundation to decay. Phra Khru Chanthapairojanakhun, The abbot at that time had the monks help dismantle the old pagoda in order to renovate it. It appeared that at the base of the pagoda there was a lotus petal amulet made of terracotta, black and red, so it was taken out of the crypt. Then, villagers came to ask for it and the abbot was kind give them two handfuls to each person. without any charge at all.  Whoever came to ask for it, luangphor gave it to him. Whoever came to make merit, offer Kathin robes, etc, all distributed until it was almost gone. Until his death in 1980, there were only 400-500 amulets left on the bottom of the alms bowl, which were given as property of the temple by the new abbot (Phrakru Vinaithorn) who took them to manage.

Bang Sakae Nok Temple. It is an ancient temple built in the Ayutthaya period around 1547. During the reign of His Majesty King Nangklao, King Rama III (1824-1851), who granted Phra Maha Thongdee or Phra Worayan Muni came to renovate the temple together with Upasika Jin Pan Mueang, Upasaka Suk Mee. After that, he probably built amulets and placed them in the pagoda. Experts who looked at clay amulets estimated that This Phra Kleep Bua Kru Wat Bang Sakae was built around the early Rattanakosin period. Which is consistent with what the temple’s inscription says.