LAMPANG LEGEND CONSIDERATION: PARADIGMS AND INTERACTIONS IN BUDDHA’S PREDICTION LITERATURE

Abstract

            The objective of this articles was to study the paradigms and interactions of Buddha’s Prediction literature by using the structure of legend theory of Claude Levi – Strauss.

            The findings found that the paradigms of Lampang legend consideration consisted of paradigms of characters, place/area, and sign by comparing the various ways of thinking between tradition and Buddhism. This led to the findings that traditional and Buddhist ways of thinking were mixed. There were the interactions of Buddhism and traditional beliefs in 3 ways. The first one was Buddhism opposed to traditional beliefs. The second one was Buddhism accepted traditional beliefs. The third one was the traditional beliefs accepted Buddhism. From the study of reflection on interactions between Buddhism and traditional beliefs it was that the interactions of beliefs between Buddhism and traditional beliefs had many styles such as conflict, acceptance, and integration of beliefs reflected the power of faith of people on traditional beliefs blended in Buddhism belief system interestingly and these traditional beliefs supported Buddhism to become the broadly acceptable religious until now. 

            In addition, the study of binary opposition reflected through reproduced content of Lampang legend literature divided into 3 groups. 1) The binary opposition reflected the relationship of characters 2) The binary opposition reflected the condition of characters and 3) The binary opposition reflected outcome or result occurred.