Buddhist Monks’ Participation in Indigenous Culture Preservation

Research Title : Buddhist Monks’ Participation in Indigenous Culture Preservation
Researchers : Phrakrukanlayanasitthiwat Phramaha Prayoon Theerawongso Mr. Luechai Wongthong
Department : Department of Psychology The Faculty of Humanities Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University
Fiscal Year : 2548 / 2005
Research Scholorship Sponsor: Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University

ABSTRACT

The research was a Quantitative research with the following objectives:

1) to study Buddhist monks’ participation in indigenous culture Preservation

2) to study the factors affecting Buddhist monks’ participation in indigenous culture preservation.

The Samples of group in this research were 300 undergraduate students of Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University in the academic year 2005; 100 students from Nakorn Ratchasima Campus, 50 from Nakornsri Thammarat Campus, 100 from Nakornsawan Collage and 50 students from Nakornpathom Pali Buddhagosa Campus.

The Instruments used in this research were the constructed questionnaire

Statistics used to analyze Data were mean, standard deviation One - Way ANOVA Pearson–Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and t-test.
Results of the research were as follows:

1. It was found that the participation in a decision making, practicing, getting benefits, and a follow-up and evaluation was in the moderate level.

2. The variables regarding age, years of ordination, educational qualifications before ordination, educational qualifications obtained during the ordination, status before ordination, occupation before ordination, monk’s title, administrative positions, experience in local culture preservation and the knowledge of information were associated with the participation in local culture preservation, whereas the level of the knowledge of information from personal and audio-visual media was not significantly related to Buddhist Monks’ participation in indigenous culture Preservation at .05 level.