In 1937, a highly accomplished female meditator named Chand Khonnokyoong1 was introduced to Luangpu by his adept disciple (1Chand Khonnokyoong (1909-2000): founder of Wat Phra Dhammakaya, one of the largest Buddhist temples in the world), Tongsuk Samdangpun. Luangpu recognized in Chand an innate aptitude for meditation and greeted her with these words, "What kept you so long?", as if he had been waiting for her all this time. Without having to pass the usual examinations of prowess in meditation practice, Luangpu sent her straight into the meditation workshop. Once she had familiarized herself with the unfamiliar language and protocol inside the workshop, Luangpu elected her as head of the night shift.
Chand turned out to be the most adept of all the meditators. Whenever Luangpu asked her a difficult question on meditation, or requested her to do something extraordinary that required superior mental power, she could fulfil his request without fail. If she were asked to look for the afterlife destinations of the deceased, she could do so. If she were asked to look into the future or into the past, she could do it. Nothing Luangpu told her to do was beyond her ability to accomplish.
One day when Luangpu was returning from lunch, he spotted two pigeons on the temple roof cooing at each other. Luangpu challenged Chand to find out the conversation which had taken place between them. He said that the two pigeons had been perched together on the temple roof. One pigeon had turned its head to face away from the other, and then the two pigeons had flown off together in the same direction.
Chand went away to meditate upon the Dhammakaya. Through her meditative insight she was able to understand the communication between the two pigeons. She returned to Luangpu with the answer. The pair of pigeons had been husband and wife, she told Luang pu. The male had asked the female about the route to their destination so that they would not get lost on the way. The female had turned her head away to recollect the route before they both set off together in the agreed direction. Luangpu was pleased with her answer.
Chand Khonnokyoong carried on Luangpu's legacy after he passed away in 1959. She began teaching Dhammakaya method of meditation to her students at her residence located inside Wat Paknam. Years later she moved on to build Wat Phra Dhammakaya (The Dhammakaya Temple), which later evolved to become one of the biggest Buddhist temples in the world, where thousands of Buddhist monks live a virtuous life and preach goodness to all of mankind.
