The Role of Sangha Administrators in the Buddhist Monastery Region 14 in Training People for Abstaining from Causes of Ruin in Both Maha Nikaya and Dhammayuttika Nikaya

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to conduct a comparative study on the role
of Sangha Administrators in training people for abstaining from causes of ruin which were
classified according to personal factors; and 2) to study the factors that predicted the role
of Sangha Administrators in training people for abstaining from causes of ruin. The samples
were 298 monks who were drawn using stratified sampling. The questionnaires were tools
used for collecting data. The statistics used in data analysis include t-test, one-way ANOVA,
and stepwise multiple regressionanalysis. The findings were as follows: 1) different personal
factors in terms of age, Dhamma study, Pali study, secular study, and Sangha positions
made no difference in terms of the role in training people for abstaining from causes of
ruin. Meanwhile, the different number of rainy season retreats that the monks had spent in
the temples, and the different length of time that the monks were in the positions played
different roles intraining peoplefor abstaining from causesof ruin withstatistical significance
at 0.05; and 2) the factor in terms of Four Bases of Success can predict the role in training
people for abstaining from causes of ruin (54.9%).