Somdet Phra Phutthajaan a revered Buddhist monk,  who is also known as Luang Poo Toh.  He was born on 17 April 1788, in the reign of King Rama I, and died in Bangkok on 22 June 1872, aged 84. Luang Poo Toh was widely respected among Buddhists in the early Rattanakosin Period and had a clear understanding and good knowledge of Buddhism, which he was able to preach to the general public in a comprehensible way. He resided for a while at Wat Rakhang and initiated the Phra Somdet Wat Rakhang Khositaraam amulets. He was also instrumental in the completion of many Buddhist projects, his last building project being the 32-meter high standing Buddha image Luang Pho Toh at Wat Intharawihaan in Bangkok. When Bangkok in the 19th century was plagued by a cholera epidemic that caused so many deaths that it left authorities unable to keep up with cremating or burying the dead bodies in time and forced them to leave many corpses in the open, attracting hordes of vultures that came to devour the dead bodies and changed the area of Wat Saket in a sky burial ground, Somdet went there to observe the sight in order to meditate on the impermanent nature of existence. This monk from the past is still revered posthumously by many Thai people today and shrines dedicated to Luang Poo Toh can be found across the nation.