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Luang Pu Dun was born in the village of Prasat in Surin Province, Thailand on October 4th, 1888. He was the oldest in a family of five children and so took on much of the family responsibilities. In his mid-teens he became a lead actor in the Provincial theatre. At the age of twenty two he ordained as a Buddhist monk at Wat Jumapolsuddhavasa in Surin Province. After his ordination he resided at Wat Kauko just outside the city of Surin where he practiced meditation under the guidance of Acharn Luang Paw Aak. With the monks discipline not being very strictly observed and with his crude duties of caring for cattle and building ox-carts. He became disillusioned after six years and decided to look into the scholastic side of monasticism. He therefore went to a temple to study in the city of Ubon Rajathani..
After studying for several years he came to the conclusion that study offered only memory and not the real experience of practice. About this time Thailand's most honored forest dwelling monk, Acharn Mun, came to stay the rains-retreat in a nearby temple. Acharn Dun went to hear a talk by this famous teacher and was so inspired by Acharn Mun's description of the forest practice that he joined Acharn Mun after the rains- retreat and wandered under his guidance for the next sixteen years.
After wandering in the forests and mountains for many years he returned to his home Province of Surin and settled down at Wat Nah Sahm. This Temple, however, was far out in the country and as Acharn Dun became very well known and respected there was no room for all the people who came to hear him talk. He eventually was offered a place nearer to the city and he therefore moved to another forest temple called Wat Rongong Samet. He remained there during the rains-retreats but continued to go wandering outside that time especially in the untouched and deep forest of Cambodia.
For the last fifty years of his life he resided at Wat Burapharam in Surin. With his final passing taking place during his 96th birthday celebration preparations on October 30, 1983.
泰國東北部著名大德高僧尊者阿姜頓.安圖羅, 素輦府芒區帕薩村（Surin），涅盤於A.D. 1985, 瓦布拉帕南 Wat Burapharam. 阿姜頓.安圖羅,是70-80年代泰國東北部著名的大德高僧，若毘婆舍那禪修者大多會認識這位擁有大智慧的大德高僧。尊者阿姜頓.安圖羅尊者22歲那年在首府出家。六年后對於毫無知見的城市比丘生活感到失望，便前往烏汶修學，在那裡他結交了阿姜辛 · 堪提迦摩，於是在法宗派重新受戒。不久兩人遇見了阿姜曼。當時阿姜曼正從多年游方之后回到泰東北。兩人深受他的教導與舉止影響，於是放下經典研習，在他的指導下開始游方梵行，成了他最早的兩位弟子。在阿迦曼的指導下修習森林苦行/毘婆舍那十六年. 在泰國與高棉的山林間漫游19年后，阿姜敦接到僧團上座的指示，領導素輦府一座研習與禪修寺院。因此他在1934年接受了這個座落於市中心的瓦布拉帕南寺的住持職務。他在那裡直到1983年圓寂。阿姜頓.安圖羅未涅盤前，泰王與其家人經常前往拜访這名大德高僧.
