Buddhist text’s true author identified as Thai woman – BBC, March 28, 2013
…There are also several clues within the text which indicate that it was unlikely to have been written by a monk.
In fact, none of the most authoritative biographies of Luang Pu Mun ever claimed that he wrote it. He was only credited with authorship in later editions of the book, which featured pictures of him and another monk on the cover. Dr Seeger thinks it unlikely that Ms Yai Damrongthammasan ever met Luang Pu Mun.
The monk died in 1949, a national figure, and the text appears to have been attributed to him after that…
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