1910年代泰國僧伽教育改革的中心和離心:曼谷和外府的宗教周旋(下)=Centralized and Centrifuged in 1900's Reformation of Monastic Education in Thai Buddhism: Bargaining between Bangkok vs Chang Wats
Thai Samgha is one of the main examples in the Modern Theravada Buddhism that have gone through, relatively speaking, a success transformation. The monastic education plays a key, and double role, in this transformation. On the one hand, monastic education is one of the essential components in the Buddhist institution that to be transformed, while on the other hand, it is also a key factor that causes the further transformation of the Theravada Buddhism in the modern society. The present article is composed of three major sections. Firstly, on the 1^(st) version of modern Thailand's Samgha Acts at 1902. Secondly, Vajirañāṇa-varorasa's project of the monastic educational reformation at early decades of 20^(th) century. Thirdly, the alternative models of monastic education developed by local monastic communities at northern Thailand that not yet reached or fully changed by the National Samgha based at Bangkok. The conclusion section is a comprehensive discussion on various problems about monastic education based on previous discussion of Thai tradition.