Thai Buddhism
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Our cultivation of the mind is aimed both at firmly establishing calm and at developing the arising of true wisdom and insight. We depend on the practice as laid down by the Lord Buddha which I have been explaining in stages.
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The [newborn] baby is bumped softly on the floor in order to acquaint it with the fact that harsh and startling events may occur in the world of the humans where it has now been received.
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the religious life and work of Khunying Yai Damrongthammasan, who appears to have produced one of the first significant Buddhist treatises ever authored by a Thai woman.
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A brief survey of some Pāli inscriptions found in Thailand in the 1980s giving a look at the archeological evidence for medieval Theravāda Buddhism.
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A major challenge in the historical study of female monasticism in Thailand is the paucity of texts written by or about Thai Buddhist female practitioners prior to 1950…
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We very much doubt that most Thai Buddhists would be bothered by any need to distinguish a “miraculous” category. Their traditional religion teaches that at the highest level of enlightenment all forms are illusions; thus the whole world and everything in it can be interpreted as metaphors or “names” ultimately. Nothing in such a world can, in essence, ever be real or unreal, illogical or logical in the Western Aristotelian sense.
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In a lecture which he gave in his monastery on the 12th of June 1971, Buddhadāsa criticised this Three Lifetimes Theory with sharp words. He compared this presentation of paṭiccasamuppāda with ‘cancer, an incurable tumour of Buddhist scholarship’.
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Four monks’ life narratives, two from the Vipassana group and two from the Vidayagom group, are used as case studies. The study reveals that the narratives of these monks follow the structure of the Buddha’s life due to the Buddhist tradition of using the Buddha’s life as a paradigm to compose religious persons’ stories. However, the miraculous power of each monk is highlighted in his narrative. There is both miraculous power as found in the Buddhist canon and as influenced by Thai cultural beliefs and practices.
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The story of a rural, Thai villager’s struggle with addiction and how his Buddhist culture helped set him on a path to recovery.
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… harbingers of death, visions of hell, the Lord of the underworld, and the benefits of making donations to Buddhist monks and temples, can be understood within the framework of beliefs and customs unique to Southeast Asia.
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In the past, the temple was the center for learning, where elders taught their grandchildren how to chant and pay respect to monks. But in contemporary Thailand, this system is quickly losing influence. Because of this, a number of strategies have recently developed to communicate Buddhist teachings to Thai youth. This paper investigates two significant strategies: private schools with Buddhist-inspired curricula and media targeted towards Thai youth.
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Be a V-Star!: Dhammakāya Programs to Cultivate Virtue in Thailand’s Youth (2021) – Rachelle A. Scott
youth initiatives have remained a popular vehicle for support and recruitment despite numerous criticisms and scandals over the past decades.
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Mae chee, while debarred from the alms round, both receive alms from the laity and donate alms to monks.
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To be spiritually and superstitiously effective, sak yant tattoos traditionally require their bearer to follow a certain lifestyle.
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in a living tradition of Buddhism such as in Thailand, the members of that tradition themselves are often not quite aware of how the whole system is meant to work.
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With illustrations from the contemporary Thai religious landscape, we can observe how various forms of relational karma intuitively account for spirits and material objects as an agency of relations.
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These incidents have tarnished the reputation of Thailand’s monastic community, raising concerns about the integrity of the religious institutions in the country and questions about what reforms may be needed.
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To practise Dhamma means to apply the Dhamma, to use the Dhamma in conducting your life and work.
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The symbolic ordination of trees as monks in Thailand is widely perceived in Western scholarship to be proof of the power of Buddhism to spur ecological thought. However, a closer analysis of tree ordination demonstrates that it is not primarily about Buddhist teaching, but rather is an invented tradition based on the sanctity of Thai Buddhist symbols as well as those of spirit worship and the monarchy. Tree ordinations performed by non-Buddhist minorities in Thailand do not demonstrate a religious commitment but rather a political one.
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We must practice putting the mind back into shape. Before we do anything, while we’re doing it, and after it’s done, we have to practice keeping the mind cheerful and bright, with a constant sense of well-being.
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Each year, the local community celebrates the day that Khru Bah Neua Chai Kositto became a monk.
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A leading expert on South and Southeast Asian Buddhist art explores the evolution of Buddhist architecture and art in Thailand over millennia, naturally intertwining it with the country’s rich history in this excellent, introductory lecture.
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The Western adoption of Buddhism was fascinated by the intellectual side, but its enormous success in Southeast Asia and elsewhere came about by becoming so deeply embedded in the society.
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The Buddha statues of Southeast Asia have long been coveted and plundered. In this abbreviated recording, Angela Chiu explains how Thai Buddhists justified these iconic thefts in myth and legend.
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