PETA (HUNGRY GHOST WITH THE SANDONTA TRADITION OF THE THAI KMER PEOPLE

Abstract

Thai Khmer People's beliefs have believed that Peta (Hungry Ghost) is a starving spirit. Starvation is another inhabitant of Bhumibol. There is a relationship with Saendonta Tradition of Thai people. Khmer Saendonta Tradition is a ritual of merit. The deceased, which is a relationship of morals, beliefs that are related to the teachings of Buddhism, especially to dedicated the merit to the deceased. Thai Khmer People believes that it is an aid to the dead relatives to be born in the heavenly world, and expresses gratitude to the ancestors. The belief in karma that causes it to be jinn Is consistent with the beliefs of Buddhism There is a practice inherited from the tradition and Saendonta Tradition, which is influenced by the beliefs of the spirituality that after death Believing that any person who has committed a crime will receive that result. Do good, go to heaven, do evil, go to hell, as Peta (Hungry Ghost) must suffer because of the consequences of the sins that have been made. And in the landscape of imp, they can live by relying on merit from sponsorship of relatives Or others, only if no one is devoted to it, does not receive merit. In accordance with the belief in receiving merit, because Thai Khmer People believes that reincarnation is true. And believe that making merit for charity for relatives in the day "Saendonta", those who died as relatives Will definitely receive merit And believe that those merit Will help the deceased to escape from the existing debt And will be born again in the new world "Saendonta" The villagers are convinced that the ancestral spirits of every family will gather at the temple. To wait for the charity that relatives send To be merit that he has led to happiness in the next life Therefore, Peta (Hungry Ghost) with Saendonta Tradition of Thai Khmer People is related. The word Peta (Hungry Ghost) is Buddhism The belief that the merit received from the dedication of the children in the Saendonta Tradition each year is organized.