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About Voramai Kabilsingh
- Voramai Kabilsingh (Thai: ????? ?????????; RTGS: Woramai Kabinsing), also called Ta Tao Fa Tzu, was born Lamai Kabilsingh (Thai: ???? ?????????; RTGS: Lamai Kabinsing; 6 April 1908; died 23 June 2003), was the first modern Thai bhikkhuni.
- Voramai's father had wanted sons and was disappointed her mother only produced one so left for China.
- Later her sister married a merchant and she would work at their store where she learned English.
- She also was taught by Catholic nuns at Assumption Girls' College.
- She developed a passion for writing and journalism.
- She also, unusual for a Thai woman of that era, excelled at sword fighting.
- While studying at a physical education college she met her husband.
- The marriage was largely an arrangement, however, so she could avoid being married to a Japanese man.
- It did lead her to gain the name "Voramai", but his political career ended up causing some physical distance.
- Despite that they remained supportive of each other while living apart.
- After a tumor scare she became more interested in religion.She took lower ordination when her daughter, Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, was ten.
- After this she turned the family home into Songdhammakalyani Monastery.
- She later learned higher ordination was possible outside Thailand and was ordained in a Dharmaguptaka lineage in Taiwan in 1971.
- This is how she gained the name Ta Tao Fa Tzu.
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