A Study of Livable Community Building in Accordance with the Buddhist Principles of Wat Samsuan, Nong Sawan Village, Banlhoa Sub-district, Banfang District, Khon Kaen Province

Abstract

       The objectives of this research were:1) to study the current conditions and community problems of Samsuan temple, Nong Sawan village; 2) to study the livable community building Accordance with the Buddhist principles of the temple. This study was a qualitative research conducted by the study of both the document and the field work. The obtained data were interpreted by the descriptive analysis.

       The research results revealed that 1) the problems of the community were a community dispute, competitive exploitation, sexual misconducts, telling a lie, intoxicating item selling in generals and etc. All of these problems are about lacking of the basic moral principles.

       The livable community building, according to Buddhist principles of the temple can be made by organizing the project, making the temple as the model in bringing the dhamma principles called ‘the Four Bases of Social Solidarity (Pāli: saṅgahavatthu-dhamma)’to take care of the neighbors, to create friendship, peace, smile and happiness in the community.