PREACHING OF NEW MONKS IN BUDDHIST LENT PERIOD

Abstract

         The ordination of Thai men in Thailand today, there are many purposes like being faith in the Buddha teachings, focusing on the path of nirvana, studying. According to ordained in tradition, it takes time for a short period of one year, maybe 1 month, 15 days, or 7 days, depending on those opportunity that allows. Ordination is a tradition that has been inherited since the Ayutthaya period. In the past, parents often sent their children to be ordained to study because there is no money to send them to continue their studies, but at present, this value is less. The reason is the state has organized education in all areas of Thailand. Meanwhile the descendants who applied for ordination were also reduced but it is still popular comes from the short-term traditional ordination with the purpose to be gratitude of their parents depend on their vacation time; the Buddhist Lent (3 months) or 7 days. Once ordained before the last layover, in there is a tradition that the newly ordained monks had to go back and preach to their parents first. The 3 objectives of preaching to parents before leaving as; 1) being a kinship, which is to conduct oneself as being beneficial to parents and relatives so that those people have the opportunity to listen to the Dharma from newly ordained monks. 2) Preaching to parents is considered the most rewarding kindness because he followed the pace of the Lord Buddha who preached to Buddha’s father, King Sutthodana, and the Buddha's mother in the Daowadung heaven. 3) The newly ordained monks have developed themselves. because before preaching, they must ask the venerable teacher, must read book, need to practice preaching that make themselves get more knowledge of the subject to be preached as well.