The Roles of Women’s Leadership in Dhamma Practice in Thai Society

Abstract

This academic article aims to analyze the roles of women’s leadership in Dhamma practice in Thai society. From the research, it is found that the roles of the Thai women in the many ways were less than the Thai men in the past. There were many changes in the roles of Thai women when the Thai Society became to be the democracy system especially for the high education of Thai women developing themselves to work in the same level of the role as the Thai men. In addition to the women could develop themselves and success to be the leaders of many organizations in the world wide, and also today the duties and the roles of many Thai women could be the leaders of the people to practice the Dhamma in many Buddhist communities and also being the high potential leaders to propagate the Buddhist doctrines to the people. They are ability to teach a lot of people in many models not only Dhamma lectures including higher doctrine, transcendental law or metaphysics but also in Dhamma practices especially for Insight Meditation of all Thai peoples.