This study was both a qualitative and quantitative with the purposes of studying generality of a temple and works of ecclesiastic Buddhists and role of the Temple in the construction of the community strength at the lower Northeastern.
The data were collected by grouped interviewing with abbots, vice abbots, communities’ leaders, villages’ leaders, members of sub-district administrative organizations, churchwarden, and village boards. A questionnaire was administered to 429 subjects and 363 questionnaires (84.62 percent) of all were returned.
The data were analyzed by computer assessing. The statistics used in the study were frequencies, percentage, average and standard deviation (S.D.)
The findings were as follow.
(1) The area of the temple was 20.91 Rais. There were nine monks stayed in a Buddhist monastery during the Buddhist Lent. In a month, there were approximately three times of the following events held in the temple: (a) the temple was a center of the people to count on party spirit and holding communities’ activities, (b) there were collaborations between temple and communities, (c) it was a place for holding religious, traditional and cultural activities, for building up people’s faith, and traditional and environmental conservations. But it was about four times in a month that people customize their lifestyles since they were born until the end of their lives.
The temple played an important role in creating traditional learning resources which was 81.90 percent and there were sources of relaxations in the temple which was 83.60 percent.
The abbot or vice abbot moderately works and followed their tasks at the average of 3.18 out of four and the S.D. was 0.86.
(2). The average of 3.10 out of four showed the temple played an important role in strengthening a community in six aspects respectively; public welfare, administrative tasks, public utility, religious publish, religious studies, and education welfare with the S.D of 0.98. There were three levels of the quality of strengthening a community. The good, the moderate and the least levels which were respectively 72.50 percent, 15.20 percent, and 12.40 percent out of all communities.
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