Abstract:
This research is the qualitative research by having its purposes, that is, 1) to study the divines existence and morality in Buddhism 2) to study the belief in the divines towards people in Maung District, Nongkhai Province and 3) to analyze the divines moral principle towards people in Maung District, Nongkhai Province. The results of the research are found that:
The divines existence and morality in Buddhism are the creatures in divines world in the Six heavens of sphere called the Six heavens of sense-sphere meaning the realm in attachment to the circle of defilements consisting of desire, lust, decease, birth, death as similar to ordinary person in the human world as appeared in the Buddhist scripture. In addition, in Buddhism, they can be divided into three groups, that is, conventional divines, occurred divines and pure divines. The divines occurrence results from the accumulated merits and to rely on the basic virtue, that is, moral shame and moral dread leading to be born on various heavens by procession of the divines supernatural property. Nevertheless, the divines can decease from the heavens if their merits or life spans are exhausted.
The belief in the divines towards people in Maung District, Nongkhai Province inherits from the influence of the primitive people and results from evolution of the belief in the consciousness in the nature. It results in the faith in Phraya Naga, choawmae Songnang, ghosts, wood nymphs and divines in agreeable to the practical principle in the primitive cult and Hinduism. It creates the social relationship in each aspect such as the influence towards the literature of Nongkhai Province, various art work of Nongkhai Province, painting, sculptures and to be mixed together in accordance with time and period until the present.
The analysis of the divines morality towards people in Maung District, Nongkhai Province is found that the formats of the aspects of the tradition and rituals are related to Buddhism that brings the belief product and expands to the Nongkhai society both economy and tourism that impacts on the new offspring both belief and non-belief in the divines that receives the influence from the belief in the divines and in right action, effort to do good and to avoid an evil and not to be infatuated in doing sins. It is the society that is endowed with the entity and traditional value. The belief in the divines appears in every activity of Nongkhai Province in order to develop oneself and society by using them as the center of faith. The faith force will assist the mentality when it gets exhausted or loses the confidence in oneself to reach the practical principle in accordance with the Buddhist teaching as the concrete oblect.