Abstract
Thai Buddhist meditation practice tradition has its long history since the Sukhothai Kingdom about 18th B.E., until the present day at 26th B.E. in the Kingdom of Thailand. In history there were many well-known Buddhist meditation master teachers, i.e., SomdejPhraBhudhajaraya (To Bhramarangsi), Phraajarn Mun Puritatto, Luang Phor Sodh Chantasalo, PhramahaChodok Yanasitthi, and Buddhadasabhikkhu, etc. Buddhist meditation practice is generally regarded by Thai Buddhists to be a higher state of doing a good deed than doing a good deed by offering things to Buddhist monks even to the Buddha. Thai Buddhists believe that practicing Buddhist meditation can help them to have mindfulness, peacefulness in their own lives and to finally obtain Nibbana that is the ultimate goal of Buddhism. The present article aims to briefly review history, and movement of Thai Buddhist Meditation Practice Tradition and to take a case study of students’ Buddhist meditation practice research at the university level as an example of the movement of Buddhist meditation practice tradition in Thailand in the present.
Highlights
Thai Buddhist meditation practice tradition has its long history since the Sukhothai Kingdom about 18th B.E., until the present day at 26th B.E. in the Kingdom of Thailand
Meditation plays an important role in Buddhism (Buddhasasana) by the name of right mediation (Sammasamadhi) being the last category of the Eight-Fold Path (Atthanghigamagga) which can be concluded into three categories under that name of Trisikkha that consists of Personal Discipline (Adhisila-sikkhā), Mental Perfection (Adhicittasikkhā), and Wisdom (Adhipaññā-sikkhā), to obtain the ultimate goal i.e., Nibbana
The tradition of Buddhist meditation practice played a dominant role in Thai Buddhism until Ratanakosintara Kingdom 24th B.E. (19th A.D.) as evidenced by the name of the most well-known monk SomdejPhraBhudhajaraya (ToBhramarangsi), Phraajarn Mun Puritatto, Luang Phor Sodh, Buddhadasabhikkhu, PhramahaChodok Yanasitthi, etc
Summary
Meditation plays an important role in Buddhism (Buddhasasana) by the name of right mediation (Sammasamadhi) being the last category of the Eight-Fold Path (Atthanghigamagga) which can be concluded into three categories under that name of Trisikkha that consists of Personal Discipline (Adhisila-sikkhā), Mental Perfection (Adhicittasikkhā), and Wisdom (Adhipaññā-sikkhā), to obtain the ultimate goal i.e., Nibbana. It might be said that this period of 2440/1897-2540/1997 can be regarded as the age of enlightenment of Buddhism in Thailand, because all these senior Thai Buddhist meditation teachers have awaked people from superstition taught Thai Buddhists to turn back to the essence of the Buddha teaching i.e. mind purification by the method of Tranquility and Insight Meditation that leads those who paid attention to appropriate practice obtain the cessation of suffering (Nibbana). International Meditation Center of Watmahathatu, Bangkok, follows the Buddhist meditation practice tradition of Phramaha Chodok Yanasiddhi who leaned Buddhist meditation practice tradition from Myanmar Those people who interested in this institute can follow this website: http://www.msarc.info/.Suanmokkhapalaram of Suratthani Province follows Buddhist meditation practice tradition of Buddhadasa Bhikkhu who directly learned Buddhist Meditation practice from the Pali Canon or Tripitaka. The results have shown that there was a significant reduction of CES-D scores between pre- and post-training groups (t-test= 4.58) significant at alpha =.01)
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