Author affiliation: College of Religious Studies Mahidol University, Salay
關鍵詞
Buddhism; Sociology; Indian Culture
摘要
The aim of this appear is to clarify how Buddhism can take its specifi c position among other counterpart religions and obtain faith of the mass from various social classes in India and fi nd out its missionary method will be signifi cantly explored in terms of sociological aspect together with a few research questions: “why can Buddhism stand up among diverse religions and multicultural societies in India and what is social integration between Buddhism and society in India?”. In this respect, this study will not focus on society, signifi cance of society, important role of society, and the impact of society on Buddhism at all and not talk about how social approval is important for a religion to survive for a long time but will make fully attention only on the Buddhist social concerns, functions, its sociological theory, movement, and social interacting between Bhikkhu order (samgha) and society in India.
目次
Introduction 283 Belief and Culture of India at the time of the Buddha 284 Social Ideology of the Buddha in Early India 287 Social Integration of Monks 289 Conclusion 292
