Buddhist Ethics and its Concern to Education
Shimo Sraman, Mahachualongkornrajavidyalaya University (Thailand)
Abstract
Education is the backbone of every individual as well as nation. It is uniform, harmonious and systematic development of latent potentialities inherent in human beings. The Abstract focuses on religious education and the ethical aspect of the philosophy mentioned by the Buddha – an enlightened one. This article emphasizes a vital role of education and assigns supreme importance of education for the achievement of altruistic attitude in our social, public and personal life. It has left aside ever-complicated problematic issues being faced by us in our daily life in practice belief and devotion. It can bring some changes in our behavioral and attitudinal patterns with a view to reducing and ceasing the tensions, hesitation, superstitions and conflicts in our social and public relations. It also tries to focus on the dimension of ever-glowing perpetual peace, happiness and sustainable development in the world by acquiring religious education based on ethical code. Towards the of the paper some proposals have been made for the smooth and perfect acquisition of religious education based on Buddhist Ethical articles.
Keywords: education, ethics, Buddhism, human behavior and sustainable development.
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