An Analytical Study of The Ways To Develop Students By Applying The Threefold Training in Theravada Buddhist Philosophy

Abstract

The objectives of this thesis entitled “Developing students using the Threefold Training in Theravada Buddhist Philosophy : An Analytical Study”  were as follows: 1) to study concept and theory about developing students, 2) to study the Threefold Training in Theravada Buddhist Philosophy, and 3) to analyze developing students using the Threefold Training in Theravada Buddhist Philosophy. This study was a Qualitative Research emphasizing on Documentary Research. The data were collected from primary and secondary sources.

The results of the study found that:

1.Concepts and theories about ways to develop students, in general, are to develop the students to know thinking analytically and with be reasonable. Encourage students to be able to think, do, and know how to solve the problems by themselves. It opens the opportunity for students in showing their roles and learns different things. Here, schools and related sectors in education management should support environment in schools to be appropriate and conducive to teaching and learning along with physical development. Schools have to arrange activities for students to have good health and growth as suitable to their age. Children should get emotional development for good mental health, refreshing mood. In social development, children are able to adapt themselves to their teachers, friends, and environment of schools. In additions, intellectual development, children will develop intellectually. Children will learn and gain experiences to be used on a daily basis.

1. The Threefold Training in Theravada Buddhist Philosophy is to cultivate, refine about precepts, meditation, and wisdom. The Threefold Training is the practice to train body, speech, mind, and wisdom and refraining chances in doing bad deeds and promote the opportunities in doing good deeds. It helps in placement of orders in society and support for living together peacefully. It helps to have calm mind, adherence to virtue and with Viriya and Utasaha in creating goodness. It gives a clear knowledge about cause and consequence by applying intelligence to determine and solve different problems.
2. The ways to develop students using the Threefold Training in Theravada Buddhist Philosophy were as follows: it helps students to practice self-development training including wisdom. It emphasizes intellectual development with rational thinking. It encourage students to study advance principle of Buddhism to develop physical, mental, intellectual, social, as well as the desired characteristics.