Buddhist leader dies
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Thailand’s supreme patriarch, who headed the country’s order of Buddhist monks for more than two decades, died on Thursday. He was 100.
Doctors said that Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara (SOM-ded PRA YA-na-SUNG-WORN) died at Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in Bangkok, where he had been treated for over a decade.
“(The supreme patriarch’s) overall condition deteriorated and he passed away at 7:30pm from septicemia,” a severe blood infection, doctors said.
In 2004, a senior Buddhist monk was appointed to work on his behalf. That monk died earlier this year, raising speculation about who the supreme patriarch’s successor will be.
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