Dress Identity of the Annam Niyaka Buddhist Sanga in Thailand

Abstract

This article aims to explain the dress identity of the Annam Nikaya Sangha of Thailand. during the reign of King Ramkhamhaeng the Great His Highness has adopted Buddhism as the national religion, patronized and maintained to prosper until now and is an important sect that has been with Thai society ever since. Continuing and long, there are 2 sects who are Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism. Later, during the reign of King Rama V, the Annam Nikaya Sangha was established in Thailand, thus a sect of Mahayana Buddhism from Vietnam came to Bangkok and later received patronage. from the Chinese and Thai communities for political and cultural reasons; which in the dress of the Anam Nikaya Sangha of Thailand today Monks of the Annam and Chinese sects wear shirts and pants, wear their robes, and do not shave their eyebrows. This is different from Theravada monks who wear robes, sangkhati and shave their eyebrows.However, religious identity, concepts and practices related to customs and assemblies various rituals of the Mahayana Ananam Nikaya Sangha in Thai society, it can be seen that in addition to wearing robes of monks in the Mahayana sect with various forms “Rituals inherited for a long time This resulted in the succession to a religious organization called "Anam Nikaya" with the appearance of the identity of the Vietnamese monks or the Anam Nikaya Sangha, i.e. the identity of the dress from then on.