Urangadhatu: Ways to Think About Religion and Beliefs

Abstract

This research article aims to study the ways of thinking about the religion and beliefs that appeared in Urangadhatu. The information used in this study is drawn from the legendary Urangadhatu’s  documentation. This has been applied by using the conceptual framework for the purposes of analyzing and interpreting the documentation. The results revealed that The way of thinking is explained in various things. What the ancestors wanted to convey to the youth of future generations and the Urangadhatu contains cultural information that is a paradigm or set of ideas that communicate the thoughts and beliefs of people in the past through literary stories which consists of characters, places, and behaviors. These help the reader to see the religious belief system that is a mixture of Buddhism and ghosts.