Buddhist Tourism: A Case Study of Landscape of Buddhist Meditation Teachers in Lower Northeast

Abstract

This research aims to study of the Landscape of Buddhist meditation teachers,Buddhist Resources and todevelopBuddhist tourism route Related to Buddhist meditation teachers in lower northeast. The methodology of this research is qualitative. The in-depth interviews and focus group discussions are as the tools by using the specific samples and sampling. The results of the research found that the origin of the Buddhist meditation teachers in northeast is UbonRatchathani province; which spread from the DhammayuttikaNikaya in Bangkok.The monasterieswere rebuilt and refined in the same denomination in the province of Ubonratchathani and neighboring provinces. The Buddhist meditation teachers which are important and remarkable in northeast, that is, Sua Kuntasilo and Mun Phurithatto. But in lower northeast Sua Kuntasilo is considered a dominant role than MunPhurithatto. For the other lower northeast, Nakhonratchasima and Surin provinces are the important spread of the Buddhist meditation masters.For Buddhist Resources Related toBuddhist meditation masters
which are prominent for Buddhist tourism, it can be organized into six groups, as follow, group of important monasteries; group of pagoda; group of museum; group of sacred Buddha statue; group of relic and group of doctrines. Moreover,there are 3 main routes, that is,route of Buddhist tourism within UbonRatchathani province; the two routes links between provinces. Most of them can be organized under the name as “the teacher worship route”.