Page 9 - STRATEGIES FOR BUDDHISM PROPAGATION OF OVERSEAS DHAMMADUTA BHIKKHUS (PH.D.)

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In the Overseas Dhammaduta Bhikkhus’ propagation of Buddhism,
Buddhist monks who passed the Overseas Dhammaduta Bhikkhus Training Program

are highly regarded as the Thai Sangha’s delegates to communicate the
Buddhadhamma to the people around the world under the Thai Sangha and the

other cooperation within three main advantages: 1) virtues conducive to benefits in

the present, 2) virtues conducive to benefits in the future, and 3) virtues conducive
to benefits in the final eternal goal (Nibbãna) leading to the awareness of the proper

practices in accordance with the Buddhist teachings.

In this research, the Buddhism propagation strategies of the Overseas

Dhammaduta Bhikkhus was of the organizational and individual strategies, the former
consists of: 1) setting the main goals and guidelines in propagating Buddhism clearly

and thoroughly, 2) creating a database of Thai temples and Dhammaduta Bhikkhus in

the foreign countries, 3) providing a central database to gather information about the
foreign countries’ history, and 4) making a bilingual database of Buddhist Dhammas,

like Thai and English or Pali and English database, and 5) providing the budget in a

row for managing the propagation works in the foreign countries, and the latter
consist of: 1) getting to know oneself and others through self-analysis, and

developing oneself to acquire more Buddhism knowledge through learning, practice
and comprehension, especially in meditation, manners, as well as other knowledge

needed for the Dhammaduta works, and 2) getting to know the target country of

Buddhism propagation, and future trends in Buddhism propagation and also the up-
to-date situations.