Buddhism and Thais’ Way of Life in Suvarnabhumi
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The purposes of the research paper entitled “Buddhism and Thais’ Way of Life in the Suvarnabhumi” were: 1) to study Buddhism and its relationship with value, space and time in the area of Thailand as a part of Suvarnabhumi; and 2) to explore, analyze, and assess the links between Buddhism and Thais’ way of life in Suvarnabhumi. This research applied mixed methods consisting of 2 steps. Step 1 was a qualitative research using group discussion and In-depth interviews of 20 purposive sampling, which were analyzed by content analysis. Step 2 was a quantitative research using questionnaire to ask Thai Buddhist samples in the specific areas of four routes. The 500 samples used in this study were multi-stage random sampling. The tool used was questionnaire with 5-level estimation scale. Data analysis was conducted by descriptive statistics such as Mean, and Standard Deviation. The results from research findings were found that 1) Buddhism and its links with value, space and time in the area of Thailand as a part of Suvarnabhumi found that as a part of Suvarnabhumi, Thailand begun the history of Buddhism acceptance since the early third Buddhist era. The significant historical evidences found in the establishment of Nakhon- pathom, Uthong, and Suphanburi cities. The distinctive feature of Buddhism was to teach the middle truth (majjhena-dhamma) or the middle teaching (majjhena-dhammadesana) and the holistic nature, resulting in the integration of Buddhism to cover dimensions of values, space and time. 2) The links between Buddhism and Thais’ way of life in the Suvarnabhumi were found that there were the linkages of Buddhism and the way of life of Thai people at high level (Mean = 4.08, S.D. 0.73). The bodies of knowledge discovered from the research of Buddhist values dimension for the way of life of Thais in Suvarnabhumi today are Buddhism’s values for living which have to take into account of social capital as the cornerstone and have to meet the 3 dimensions needs: social need, economic need and environmental need in order to ensure sustainability.
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