Wat Khao Ta Kong, Surin Province: The Innovative Model of Basic Public Health according to the Buddhist Way

Abstract

There are four objectives of this academic article are as follow: - (1) to present the history and background of Wat Khao Ta Kong, Surin Province, (2) to survey the notion of basic public health, (3) to present the notion of the model and importance of innovation life and (4) to analysis the model of the innovation in the basic public health of Wat Khao Ta Kong, Surin Province. By using studies from academic documents and to collect field data with in-depth interviews and used to analyze the content and the analytic induction as well as presented as an essay. The results of the study found that the essential principle of the Innovative Model of basic public health is knowledge and understanding for the community. By using their way of life in the community culture, beliefs to improve health and the use of Buddhist principles in the threefold training viz, morality (Sila), concentration (Samadhi), and wisdom (Panya), to apply with the 4 developments (Bhavana) is when we observe the precepts, meditation then leads to wisdom and practiced the physical development (Kaya-bhavana), moral development (Sila-bhavana), emotional development (citta-bhavana) and wisdom development (Panya =bhavana) because health and wellness must be maintained. Knowing and understanding according to the principle, therefore, the study of the basic ways of public health based on the Buddhist way, which can create new knowledge in the basic public health. The way of life of people in the community can develop and help the permanently create happiness, as well as to know how to treat well-being by applying the Buddha Dhamma to the solution to the problems as a component that creates and develops the quality of life of people in the community to truly be happy.