with Kittivuddho, but not much. Kittivuddho was also close with Luang Por Chamroon Parnchand, the abbot of Tham Krabok temple in Phra Phutthabat district, Saraburi province, which supported insurgents fighting against the Lao communist government (see Baird 2012 (see below). According to the Lao monk Achan Sounthone Silaphet, few Thai monks openly supported Lao insurgents, apart from a small number in northeastern Thailand. Lao insurgents did, however, receive some material and other support from the monks at Tham Krabok, particularly Chamroon Parnchand, who won the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in 1975 due to his work related to drug addiction. While Tham Krabok is best known for providing treatment for drug addicts, both Thai and foreign, the temple also played an important role in providing “humanitarian” support to Hmong insurgents, especially those in the Ethnic Liberation Organization of Laos and later the Chao Fa Party under the leadership of Pa Kao Her. The special relationship between Tham Krabok and the Hmong, and its link to the struggle between dissidents and the Lao PDR government, is described in Baird (2012), so I will not elaborate here. In southern Laos, a number of Thai monks supported Lao monks who were providing assistance to Lao insurgents. Of particular importance was the head monk of Khong Chiam district in Ubon Ratchanthani province, Phra Khou Ratanawari. Sounthone Silaphet claimed that northeast Thai monks mainly just provided humanitarian support via Lao refugee camps such as Napho, without giving any direct assistance to insurgents. In at least one case, a Thammayut sect monk from Laos contacted the chief of the Thammayut Buddhist Sangha in Nong Khai province, northeast Thailand, in 1976 and brought him to meet a Lao resistance leader and former MP in Laos, Khamphoui Sisavatdy, in an attempt to gain support from the Thai Buddhist Sangha for Lao insurgents. The monk did come, but not long after Khamphoui was arrested by Thai authorities, and the Lao monk, afraid of getting in trouble, fled to another part of Thailand, possibly Chiang Mai.