The Religious Relation to the ASEAN Community Through Buddhadasa Bhikkhu’s Postmodern Philosophy: An Analytic, Appreciative and Applicative Study

Abstract

The objectives of this research are as followings: 1) to study the principles of the religious relation and entrance to the ASEAN Community 2) to study the concept of Postmodern philosophy and Buddhadasa Bhikkhu’s hermeneutics 3) to apply Postmodernism and Buddhadasa Bkikkhu’s hermeneutics in order to create the religious relation and solve the religious problem in the ASEAN Community and 4) to crate the new body of knowledge. The researcher uses the qualitative method and descriptive method through the analysis and interpretation. The result of this research was found that usage of the hermeneutics as the instrument of Postmodernism through the interpretation or Buddhadasa Bhikkhu’s five hermeneutics, that is say: the principle of university, the principle of the meaning of language, the principle of the will of scripture, the principle of comparative description, and the principle of utility in the present time, in order to understand and create the religious relation in the ASEAN Community. And get ready to entrance to The ASEAN Community and get rid of the obstacles in both individual and the ASEAN Community level.