death_date death_place religion birth_place predecessor successor color nationality title article_title background birth_date school name
august 27 , 1988 bangkok , thailand buddhism amphoe nakhon luang , ayutthaya , thailand somdet phra sangharaja -lrb- pun punnasiri -rrb- nyanasamvara suvaddhana black thai supreme patriarch of thailand ariyavangsagatayana , 18th supreme patriarch of thailand
 #ffd 068 1897 theravada , dhammayuttika nikaya somdet vāsano -rrb- phra ariyavamsagatañāṇa somdet phra sangharāja sakalamahāsanghaparināyaka -lrb- vasana
ariyavangsagatayana , 18th supreme patriarch of thailand

somdet phra ariyavangsagatayana somdet phra sangharaja , or simply known as ariyavangsagatayana was the 18th supreme patriarch of thailand 1973 -- 1988 -lrb- thai calendar 2517 -- 2531 -rrb- .
he was born 1897 -lrb- 2440 -rrb- within the ayudthaya province as vasana vasano .
he was a monk of the rajaborpit temple .
he died in 1988 , at age 90 , after a reign of 14 years and 2 months .
