Knowledge integration and practice of Buddhism as Well as social development in Asian

Abstract

Knowledge integration and the way of the Buddhist practices and social development in ASEAN, the researcher has defined Thailand and Malaysia as the research areas. The way of the Buddhist practices in ASEAN societies are 1) making merit and offering food to monks in the morning and chanting in every day, in the Buddhist practice which is expressed in each day. 2) Traditions of ordination in the Buddhist societies is considered one of the practices that has been holding for a long time, which is similarly in ASEAN. 3) Dharma education or it is called the Dharma and Dharma Studies curriculum.  4) Other traditions such as Sla:kabhat Ta:na (Alms are offered without specifying the recipient ), Loi Krathong (Tradition of worshiping rivers),  Songkran (The tradition of watering and apologizing to the elders for the blessing of the Thai people, daily merit making on Wan Phra-Day, etc., in both areas have the same cultural practices.

              The way of the Buddhist practices and social development in ASEAN found that the development has 4 dimensions as follows: 1) Population dimension is the temple with participation of the population with religious activities together. 2) The dimension of health care is that the temple plays a role in promoting health of the community people in the area to doctors or nurses or public health departments. 3) Educational dimension is the temple together with the Sangha and the government organization to manage both the Dharma and non-formal education. 4) The employment dimension is that the temple has a trading area of ​​the community and there is a procurement process which affects the income of people in the rural community.

              Integration of knowledge and the way of the Buddhist practices and social development in ASEAN found that the integration of 2 aspects, namely 1) The model of the process of integration of social development practices, namely; Physical development and social population dimension. / employment is a form of volunteer activity. The pattern of space management for commerce and employment.  In the Moral development with social health dimensions is to create continuous projects in the form of practice precepts. There is creation of a council of health care according to principles which drives the way to maintain health according to the principles of the undertaking the precept as the Ubosata precept ( 8 precepts). In the principle of the Emotional development and the social dimension of health that is bringing the principles of mental training to be integrated into each activity with the form of activities to chant daily in the morning and evening. In the principle of wisdom and the social dimension in education is integrated with the provision of education in principles other than the Dharma curriculum activities that promote Intellectual knowledge that comes in a Dharma practice project or ordination project which is organizing campaigns with agencies during the festival, and  2 ) The guidelines for the operation by using the Buddhist practices, namely the meeting of the guidelines for the procedures according to the Buddhist practices. And synthesis of issues and an overview.