Prince Mongkut, the son of King Rama…
1833 CE
Prince Mongkut, the son of King Rama II, founds the Dhammayuttika Nikaya, or simply Thammayut, an order of Theravada Buddhist monks in Thailand, as a reform movement in 1833; it is to become one of the two denominations of Buddhism in modern Thailand.
Mongkut has studied Latin, English, and astronomy with missionaries and sailors, and will spend the following twenty-seven years discovering Western knowledge.
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