Buddhist Ethics for Humanity’s Role: Case Study of State, Family, Religion and Education in Nongkhai Province.

Abstract

This research aimed to 1) Analysis the Buddhist Ethics for humanity’s role,
2) study the Buddhist Ethics of people’s role in NongKhai province classified
by their role: State, Family, Religion and Education, and (3) toestablish the
approach for develop the Buddhist Ethics of people’s role. The research resources
were (1) the documents concerning the Ethics, (2) 400people representatives
each from State, Family, Religion and Education, (3) 20 Expertise who concerned
the Ethics development. Analysis by content analysis and statistics were
percentage, frequency, mean, standard deviation. The research results found
that; 1) There are two sections of Buddhist Ethics; first is the basic Ethics
consist of the five precepts and five dharmas. And Second is the Ethics of
the social role; (1) the religion institute ; Precepts, Concentration, Wisdom,
(2) the state institute; the self-administration, the task administration, the
human management, the good governance, (3) the education institute; the
sermon principle, the dharma monitoring principle, the true friend principle,
the Principles for Earth, the four principles virtuous existence, the teaching
style, and (4) the family institute; the virtues for lay people, and the sixth
main directions. 2) The people in Nongkhai province followed the Buddhist
Ethicsthat ; the government officials/administrators and the family head
followed the basic Ethics and the role Ethics as overall was at highest level, as
well as, the religious leaders and the teachers/the school administratorswas at
high level. 3) The approach for develop people’s role on the Buddhist Ethics
was found that; (1) the policy level; the government should make a policies
as the National Agenda to encourage aware/responsibility about the Ethics for driving morality for citizens continually. (2) The region level; focus on
offering the policy guidelines and practice the ethic policy earnestly. (3) The
self-development; especially all sectors need to be aware in Ethics, moreover,
they should strongly develop their own Ethics stable and forever.