Appropriate Food Offering of Thai Buddhists at Contemporary

Abstract

           The aims of this paper were to raise understanding and present the proper food offering of Thai Buddhists at the present time in order to find the appropriateness of this meritorious activity based on the changing lifestyle of Buddhists. Influenced by the current social context change, this results in changing the traditional practice mainly caused by the time limit to perform this activity of the Buddhist. However, if they have faith in performing the practice, the new ways to do can be made by having the food store owners to be their representatives to perform the activity instead or offering their budget in the food offering fund. The fruits of merit are based on the purity of their intention to perform the practice in three phases: before, during and after times of offering. When this practice has changed in this present society, the Buddhist monks cannot accordingly follow the change by altering their ways of life which may not support the long practiced disciplines and traditions.