This amulet of Kruba Sivichai is released by Wat Phra That Doi Suthep (Wat Doi Suthep) the temple located in Tambon Suthep, Amphoe Mueang, Chiang Mai Province. Kruba Sivichai was born in the village of Ban Pang, Lamphun Province. He was a Thai Buddhist monk born in 1878 to a humble peasant family. It is the day when he was born there was heavy rain and thunderstorm and his parent given him the name Farong in Thai, which means "Thunder". Related from an ancestor in his holiness, given the event of his birth, many around his village accredited him as a person with achievement. As a child, Kruba Sivichai has been described to have compassion for all beings. He releases the animals that his father caught for cooking or begs his father not to hit the fish as their heads would hurt.
Kruba Sivichai had done many good deeds to Buddhism in his life. His goodness could hardly fade away from Thai people's minds and especially for his many construction and renovation works. His charisma and personality increased his reputation and influence. Many began to describe him the title of a bodhisattva with miraculous powers. Kruba Sivichai repaired and constructed over one hundred religious and non-religious projects such as temples, roads, and bridges. One of his more renowned monuments was the temples of Wat Doi Suthep. Early biographies report that the renovation of Wat Phra Singha temple was constructed with the help of angels as the workers who were constructing the temple found pots full of gold at the temple ground. According to folk tales, Kruba Sivichai consistently denied having these special powers, but his public ascription of him as bodhisattva remained.
From an early age, Kruba Sivichai expressed a serious interest in Buddhism as he believed that his family's present state of poverty was a consequence of his misbehavior in his previous life and became a well-behaved monk so his parents would have a better life. He was ordained as a novice at the age of 18 at the local temple in his village. Farong (Kruba Sivichai) was ordained as a monk in 1899 at Wat Ban Hong Luang, in which he took the religious name of Phra Sivichai, and went on to study with his first teacher Kruba Khattiya in Wat Bang Pan. As a novice Phra Sivichai was known to have great respect and reverence towards the science of magic and spells. Additionally, Khuba Siwichai gained a reputation for his asceticism His generosity and compassion were evident to everyone around him. One of his biographers Sangha Suphapha said the following:
- He showed compassion and mercy towards anyone who appealed to him ... he did nothing that was useful to himself. He was not a monk of rank, but only a monk of the people ... As a result he was always moving about, doing useful things wherever he went ... They were things that led Buddhists to rejoice that a monk with the wide heart of a Bodhisattva had been born into the world.
