THE APPLICATION OF POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHY AND BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY FOR PROPAGATING THE BUDDHIST TEACHING IN THE DIGITAL SOCIETY

Abstract

          This article is intended: 1) to study the theoretical concepts related with the propagating of Buddhist teaching, 2) to study the postmodern philosophy and Buddhist philosophy concerning with propagating of Buddhist teaching, 3) to apply the postmodern philosophy and Buddhist philosophy as a guideline for problem solving and propagating of Buddhist teaching. and 4) to create new knowledge and the propagation model of Buddhist teaching. This research is qualitative research by analyzing documents and semi-structured interview purposive selection methods. The source of primary data was 10 monks who work to propagating Buddhist principles in the digital age by analyzing the content and summary. The results of research are found as follows: 1) the theoretical propagating concepts, such as propagation of Buddhist principles, to communicate about problems of Thai society in the digital age and propagation problem for the monks at present. 2) The postmodern philosophy and Buddhist philosophy such as 2.1) the philosophy after postmodern including with Michel Foucault 2.2) language philosophy including with spoken language, written language, signal language and reasoning language and 2.3) Buddhist philosophy including with 2.3.1) Buddhist metaphysics such as Khun 5 (Five Aggregates) Tilakkhana (Three Common Characteristics) and Paticca Samuppada (Dependent Origination) 2.3.2) Buddhist Epistemology including with Punya 3 (Wisdom) and Kalama Sutra (Reasonable) and 2.3.3) Buddhist Ethic such as The Noble Eightfold Path and Tisikkha (Threefold Training). 3) Applying to solve problems such as time limited of the sermon, inexperienced, lacks of media knowledge, lacks of deep understanding moral, lacks of new modern language knowledge and lacks of social change understanding and 4) The new knowledge was Active Buddhist Missionary encourage and proactively driven, lead the process and management mechanisms to create awareness organizations Pariyatti Dhamma (To study Buddhist Scriptures), Patipatti Dhamma (practice the dharma), Patiwetha Dhamma (understand thoroughly) by constructive implement on digital media.