Ta Tao Fa Tzu (born Voramai Kabilsingh), the first modern Thai woman to ordain as a bhikkhuni.

The monastery was originally known as Wat Songdhammakalyani (the temple of women who uphold Dharma).

"[1] Songdhammakalyani Monastery was founded by Voramai Kabilsingh, who became interested in Buddhism and meditation in 1954 after a meeting with Luang Pu Sodh, at Wat Paknam in Bangkok.

[3] In 1957, she purchased land in Nakhon Pathom to build Songdhammakalyani Monastery for women, which became a full temple in 1960.

[6] Voramai took higher ordination as a full bhikkhuni in a Dharmaguptaka lineage in Taiwan in 1971 with the monastic name Ta Tao Fa Tzu.