MONK ROLES IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN LOEI PROVINCE

Abstract

               The objectives of the research were (1) to study the roles of Buddhist monks in community development in Loei province, and (2) to compare the monks’ opinions on the monk roles in community development in Loei province, classified by educational levels and ordination years. The samples of  310 Dhammayuttika Nikaya monks in Loei province. The research instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire with reliability of 0.958. The statistics used for data analysis comprised of frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and one-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).

               The findings of the research were as follows: 1) The monk roles in community development in Loei province were found to be overall at a high level. Separately considered in the descending order, they were social, environmental, cultural, economic and aspects, including public health, respectively. (2) The comparison of the monks’ opinions on the monk roles in community development in Loei province, classified by education levels and ordination years was found not to be different.