The Traditional Folkway Model and the Innovation of Crowned Buddha

Abstract

This research article is of 3 objectives: 1) to study the ideology and development in creating the Crowned Buddha image in Buddhism, 2) to study the ideology and the creating model of the Crowned Buddha Image in
Thailand, 3) to integrate ideology, model into creating of the prototype Crowned Buddha image. This is a qualitative   and development of Buddhist innovative Development.

Its findings were found that: 1) the ideology and development in creating the Crowned Buddha image in Buddhism were firstly occurred in
India during the Gupta period. It was the royal costume wearing Buddha image based on the Cakravartinís ideology of Mahayana Buddhism. Therefore, the Royal Suit was offered to decorate the Buddha image as an worshiping object.
Later on, from the popular belief on the Jampupati Sutra Tale, it caused 
creating the Buddha image in the posture of training Jampupati King which having been widely popular in Burma, Lanna, Lan Xang, Ayutthaya and
Cambodia.

2) The ideology of creating the Crowned Buddha image in Thailand is of  3 concepts: 1)   the Buddha is as the Universal Emperor, 2) the ideology is 
followed from the Jampupati Sutra Tale and 3) the local ideology from the Cakkavaladipani which is popular in creating the Buddha image representing a person.

  3) The creating a prototype Crowned Buddha image is from 3 concepts: the Cakravartinís ideology,   the beliefs in Jampupati Sutta and the popular local ideology combined with 3 prototype Crowned Buddha imageís arts: 1) the Lanna Crowned Buddha image, 2) the Ayutthaya Crowned Buddha images 3) the Rattanakosin crowned Buddha images. From these concepts, the researcher brought interactively to design the prototype crowned Buddha image with a 3D printer.