The Role of Buddhist Monastery toward Thai society in an inscription of The great king Ramkhamhaeng.
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Role of Buddhist Monastery, Thai Society, Inscription of King Ramkhamhaeng the Great.Abstract
The current academic article presents the role of the Buddhist monastery (Wat) with a major special reference to the inscription of King Ramkhamhaeng, the Great. The objective of the article is to analyze the role of Wat in the Thai society context only according to the background and history of the Thai nation study based on a comprehensive study on Thai history as the original of Wat in early Buddhism. The Ramkhamhaeng Inscription is a stone tablet recording historical events in the Sukhothai period. The remarkable role of Wat is represented as the accommodation of Buddhist monks such as senior monks Nissayamuttaka, Theras, and Mahatheras. In the spiritual, the role of Wat was the center of the king, princes, princess, also layman and laywoman to pay homage to the Buddha statues. Furthermore, they practice and learn Dhamma and observe the precepts such as the five or eight rules of morality. The study was found that Wat in the inscription of the King Ramkhamhaeng, the Great can be defined into 8 dimensions consist of (1) accommodation, (2) spiritual, (3) geography, (4) education, (5) social, (6) culture, (7) Architecture, (8) Museum.
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