THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE CONSERVATION OF THE SANGHA IN MUEANG DISTRICT, RATCHABURI PROVINCE

Abstract

This article was to study the encouragement of archaeological site conservation, to compare the monk's opinion and to study the problems, obstacles and suggestions of the encouragement of archaeological site conservation of the Sangha in Mueang district, Ratchaburi province, using Mixed Methods. Findings were the encouragement of archaeological site conservation showed that overall at high level. The person factors for example, age, year of monkhood, general education background influenced the opinions on encouraging archaeological site conservation to have statistically significant differences in overall at 0.01 levels. Problems and obstacles were that lack of personal and lack of budget. Further, that temples should arrange the site conservation campaign to encourage lay persons to participate in archaeological site preservation and donate money for archaeological site restoration.