SUPERSTITIOUS AND BUDDHIST COMMERCIALS IN THAI PRACTICAL BUDDHISM : CASE STUDIES OF TEMPLES IN NAKHON PATHOM PROVINCE

Abstract

This article is intended to analyze mode of practices (the way of making merit) of Thai Buddhist surrounding both Buddhism and Superstitious environment within mode of practices of Thai Buddhist, and the relationships between “Meritorious Commercial” behaviors with Superstitious and Buddhist Commercials. The findings show that Thai Buddhism had been blended together with Brahminism and Traditional beliefs, such as animism, holy thing, magic, and supernatural, leading to the superstitions’ source, which harmonize to the rituals or the religious practices of Thai Buddhist. However, the socio-cultural has been changed from the influence of consumerist capitalism. This changing brings about the new religious practices, resulting in a Buddhism and Superstitions’ ritual as situation in practice is a matter of commercial interests are involved, and then related to the “Meritorious Commercial” behaviors, is under of the critical behavior and condition relations that link and support the process of Superstitious and Buddhist Commercials together. However, for all religious phenomena above mentioned do not meet the line of Buddhist text, or the Buddha’s teachings, was therefore chosen to be explained through the concept of “Practical Buddhism”.