In the mid-1980s the most senior monks of Thailand under the leadership of Somdet Phra Maharatchamangkalajan Abbot Wat Paknam Phasi Charoen Bangkok Phra Prommoli Abbot Wat Yannawa Bangkok Phra Dhammakhunaporn Ecclesiastical Governor of Kanchanaburi Province and Phra Rajapriyatti suthi Ecclesiastical Governor of Suphanburi Province. The senior monks having contemplated the history of Buddhism noted with regret the fact that it almost disappeared from India. They hoped that it would be helpful and do good to establish Buddhism in the West.
In 1987 these senior monks desired to build a Thai temple in Brisbane.
