THE INTERPRETATION OF BUDDHIST ART PICTURES IN ANCIENT THE INTERPRETATION OF BUDDHIST ART PICTURES IN ANCIENT THE INTERPRETATION OF BUDDHIST ART PICTURES IN ANCIENT LITERATURE OF LAMPANG PROVINCE LITERATURE OF LAMPANG PROVINCE LITERATURE OF LAMPANG PROVINCE LITERATURE OF LAMPANG PROVINCE LITERATURE OF LAMPANG PROVINCE

Abstract

               This purpose of this research, Interpretation of Buddha art pictures in ancient literature of Lampang province, is to study Interpretation of Buddha art pictures in ancient literature of Lampang province. This research is Qualitative Research. The Focus Group of this research was the philosophers who experienced in Buddha art pictures and the students of Mahachulalongkornrajavidtayalai University, Lampang Buddhist College.
                  The study revealed that arts and religion have been related since an ancient times, because art was often established for communicating to propagate religion to religion follower or created to be the symbol of religion. It can be said that religion is the cause of exquisite art. When human believe in the religion, they will devote themselves to create good thing for their religion. Contents and targets of art religion purposes for goodness, niceness and to be an instrument for propagating the philosophy of each of religion.
                For Lampang society, it is Buddhism society and has the foundations such as belief, thought, tradition, art and culture from Buddhism. So, Lampang has a lot of art objects which involve with Buddhism whether it be religious place such as temple, ubosot, chedi, cathedral or religious objects such as statue of Buddha, Dhamma book chest, Pulpit, ancient literature even if picture or painting of Buddhism. These art objects was called as Buddha art perception of people, it is the touch from any organ which was used for perception and interpretation, no matter what nerve create the perception or what is that perception and what that perception mean. For interpreting, recipients must have an experience for that matter before. If recipients didn’t have an experience for that matter, they may couldn’t to interpret or even though then did it, it could be errors. Therefore, the experience for learning any matter is one of the factors for touch and perception process.