Abstract:
The study aims at studying the Role of Buddhist monks in Propagation of Buddhism: A Case Study of Propagation of Buddhism of Wat Yangsuttharam . The purposes of the study are to study the level of Wat Yangsutharam propagation of Buddhism, to study the role of Buddhist monks in Wat Yangsutharam propagation of Buddhism and to recommend the way to improve Wat Yangsutharam propagation of Buddhism.
The sample of this study composes of Wat Yangsutharam community leader, co-leader, and people living in the area around Wat Yangsutharam and the sample size is 413 persons. The study is designed to utilize quantitative method and questionnaire to collect data. The statistics techniques are frequency, Percentage, Chi-Square Tests and correlation co efficiency of Gamma. The study found that most of the sample were women, marriage, ageing among 31-40 years old , tertiary level of education and salary among 4,001 8,000 baht per month.
The study of the role of Buddhist monk in Wat Yangsutharam propagation of Buddhism found that the role of Buddhist monk in development of propagation methods, education support, public charity, qualification development of Buddhist monk in propagation, and propagation techniques were in moderate level. The study also found that the role of Buddhist monk in Wat Yangsutharam propagation of Buddhism were in moderate level. The results of testing 5 hypotheses could be concluded that the aforementioned roles of Buddhist monk affected Wat Yangsutharam propagation of Buddhism.
The recommendations of the study are
1) Wat Yangsutharam should be monitoring the behavior of Buddhists who join Buddhism activities or listen to Dharma to acquire information of Buddhism propagation achievement and to continuously improve Buddhism propagation. Office of national Buddhism should encourage active methods of Buddhism propagation and simultaneously analyze strength and weakness of Buddhism propagation in order to enhance efficiency of active Buddhism propagation . Wat Yangsutharam should launch strategic methods to develop Dharma course, propagators, propagated dharma and propagation channels to response Buddhists expectation and to reach propagation accomplishment.
2) The next research should comparatively study of the role of Buddhist monks in different temples to acknowledge differences in thought, other factors affecting Buddhism propagation and results of Buddhism propagation and the next study should focus on studying key Buddhism propagators as a role model of Buddhism propagation. The next study should also conduct research about different purpose dharma activities to process the overall of active Buddhism propagation.