TEMPLE: HOLY WASTE PLACE AND LIVING WASTE

Abstract

The objective of this academic article was to study the problem of community wastes that had impact on monasteries that the community pushed the waste management to the monasteries and the monks by having the guideline for suggestion of co-solution that the beginning of monasteries was the place to make the co-activity with the community people and developed the mind of the people to be good citizens of society. But the present monasteries become the waste dumping places that consisted of two types of wastes as living waste and holy waste. The living wastes are like undesired dogs and cats etc. The holy wastes are the broken Buddha Images, God Dolls, Ruined Dolls, god and angel portraits etc. These wastes were thrown at the monasteries because the belief of mystery that is not good for family and they believe the monks have the loving kindness to living waste. When the owners do not love their animals and throw them at the monasteries with the belief thatthe monks will take care and feed the living waste for better living and manage the cleaning to the holy waste so that the Buddhist places would become pleasant and clean, not to become messy and dirty.