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The senior khru(s), seating side by side, giving blessings to students and practitioners.

way to encourage young practitioners to per- I refer to my parents, my elementary, high
form the Wai Khru regularly; it teaches that school and university teachers, the experi-

teachers are recipients of traditional wisdom, enced elderlies, the knowledgeable colleagues
and the relationship with them is very im- who collaborate with their background, the

portant to those who aspire to learn the tra- teachers of any traditional wisdom, to whom
ditional wisdom. And finally, during the wai I honor this research to, and finally, to my
khru ceremony, those who were not able to spiritual masters and teachers, whose con-

be initiated into the Thai traditional medi- sciousness influence me every day... To all
cine, may have the opportunity to be linked my teachers, my deep gratitude!
to the traditional chain, to where the knowl-

edge will come through. Therefore, even
though the wai khru ceremony is out of the References
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