THE IDENTITY OF COMMUNICATION IN THE TIPITAKA

Abstract

This thermatic paper intends 1) to study the concept, history, and principle of communication in the Tipitaka, 2) to study the identity of communication in Tipitaka. It is based on the Documentary Research. 

            The communication is compatibility to “supervision”. The main concept of communication is as followings 1) a communication for the benefit sharing; 2) a communication for personal needs; (3) a communication for society and culture. The communication in Tipitaka is classified in to two levels; 1) the level of communication with in the principle of Buddhism 2) the level of communication found in process of preaching Buddhism. There is fourfold principle of communication: 1) a communication with the individual; 2) a communication with government; 3) a communication with other religions; 4) a communication with the social class groups;

            On the identity of communication in Tipitaka, it is classified in to 4 items according to the communication theory. There are (1) the Message Identity is composed of the Message undergoing the social, cultural and political contexts, (2) the Messenger Identity  is a composed of at least 5 qualities ; the instructor's qualifications, a principle of teaching, the  4 Technics of teaching, the 4 styles of teaching  and 10 strategies and tricks in teaching. (3) the Receiver Identity is composed of 5 qualities; they are the recipients should not look down on what he said, should not underestimate  

the speaker, should not be a self-insult, should not be distracted minded and should rationally consideration, (4) the Chanel Identity is composed of three channels: the orally personal communication chanel, a social and cultural media communication channels, and the political administrative communication chanel.

Keywords: communication in Tipitaka, the identity of communication