Patterns of Sustainable Buddhist Monastery Conservation in Phranakornsiayutthaya Province

Abstract

     The research consists of three main objectives: (1) to study the state of problems in the conservation of Buddhist monastery in Phranakornsiayutthaya Province; (2) to develop a process in the conservation of sustainable Buddhist monastery in Phranakornsiayutthaya Province; and (3) to present the pattern for the conservation of sustainable Buddhist monastery in Phranakornsiayutthaya Province. It is a qualitative research in which the data collection was conducted by purposively interviewing the 24 key-informants and the collected data were analyzed, synthesized, summarized and presented as composition. The findings are: as for the state of problems in the conservation of Buddhist monastery in Phranakornsi-ayutthaya Province, the most of problems were the restoration found in Wat Maheyong, Wat Bhukhaothong, Wat Dhammikaraj and WatvTuek; followed by the preservation in Wat Yaichaimonkol and Wat Maheyong, and the application in Wat Naphrameru and Wat Kasatrathirajvaravihara; as well as the protection in Wat Buddhaisavan, respectively; as for developing a process in the conservation of sustainable Buddhist monastery in Phranakornsi-Ayutthaya Province consists of care, participation, public relations, security and ecotourism; and as for presenting the pattern for the conservation of sustainable Buddhist monastery in Phranakornsi-Ayutthaya Province was called as the LANTI model: L = Legal Provisions, A = Attractions; Trajectory Buddhist
Attractions, N = Networking Communities, T = Transparency, I = Integration.