A study of role in communities development of Loungpur Rim Ratanamuni, Wat Uthumbhorn, Prasat district, Surin province

Abstract

The thesis title is “A study of role in Communities Development of Loung Pur Rim Ratanamuni, Wat U thumbhorn, Prasat District, Surin Province.” This research has three main objectives, (1) to study the concept of community’s development in Buddhism, (2) to study the roles of monks in communities’ development, and (3) to study the role in communities’ development of Loung Pur Rim Ratanamuni, Wat Uthumbhorn, Prasat District, Surin Province. This research is field qualitative research. This research collected data from academic documents and in-depth interviews. The key informants are; monks, academics, local leaders, local wisdom persons, and the general person. The data analysis and present the descriptive analysis style.                                   

The results have found that: -

              1) Community development in Buddhism is the most important development of the mind, including the development of morality, ethics, and mental health. In many rural areas, the monks took the lead in the development. and the temple is the center of development The dharma principles for development are four meditations, namely body meditation, physical development, moral meditation and virtue development, mental meditation, mental development, and wisdom meditation. Wisdom development: monks are leaders of villagers in the community, helping to develop the community better, the abbot who is in charge of administering and ruling the temple, who is close to the villagers Development focuses on changes in human beings, including human potential in knowledge and competency of people in the community. to gain confidence in self-help.

              2) The roles of monks in communities’ development are: connecting the mind and uniting the masses into one. Monks have always served to support the people in society, as evidenced by the roles of monks in building roads, building schools, building hospitals, making barrages, sheltering people on the sidelines as well as helping to support the struggling kitchens of living in society. The Buddhist monks must develop themselves in education and the Dhamma's practice and be able to bring good morality into the community can be a refuge for the community. At this point, the Buddha’s proclamation of the Dhamma chooses relief by giving a person a good job, and behaving like and following the Dhamma.

              3) The role in the community development of Loung Pur Rim Ratanamuni found that Luang Pur Rim Ratanamuni was a Buddhist monk, who was high in qualification and elderly.  At this point, he was a Buddhist expert who has a large number of disciples. He well knew that youth lacked morality and morality. Therefore, From the problems that arise in the community, he is interested and ready to sacrifice in matters of development, including the development of the Buddhist monks in Tungmon sub-district to have education preceded by the example of the people, with Metta (loving-kindness) and Karuna (compassion), as well as be a leader in community development work. Luang Pur Rim Ratanamuni Was highly leadership, goodwill, intelligent, unique knowledge, and abilities. Have the ability to induce people in the community to be harmonious. He was a leader, “Get a heart, get a job”, cognition, cognition as well as knowing doing. There are three aspects of community development: behavioral development, mental development, and intellectual development consequently that people in the community can have peace and not be related to the causes of ruin. He has created forests to preserve the Dhamma. He made the first community forest called “Khiri Wong Kot’s Community Forest”. It is a place to practice the Dhamma and understand natural resource issues, forests, lands, public water, bridges, Building schools, and community hospitals. These are all due to his benevolence. He was not attached to external objects but sacrificed his physical strength and strength for the communities.