The Khruba Srivijaiya’s Buddhist Faith Enhancing

Abstract

This research aims to 1) study the faith and devotion in Buddhism and 2) study the method of creating faith according to the devotion of Khruba Srivijaiya.

The results of the study found that confidence based on wisdom is right and leads believers do only correct activities and the wrong believe also brings them to do only bad action. Confidence in Buddhism is the higher level of evolution which encourages human beings to have deep and broad experience. Especially, studying the Lord Buddha’s teaching, He teaches all living creatures based on reasonable principles which support them to see the truths of life such as the principle of The Four Noble Truths composted of Sufferings, causes of sufferings, the salvation of sufferings and the right path leading to non-sufferings. In the part of confidence creation method done by Khruba Srivijaiya, the Buddhists in the period of BE. 2421 – BE. 2481 is period of Khruba Srivijaiya life time. He was born in Banpang, Meayteun sub-district, Lee district, Lumpun province, people living in northern of Thailand or Lanna Kingdom called him as the saint of Lanna, because of his perfect of moral conduct and followed disciplines strictly and he wished to enlighten the ultimate Dhamma. Otherwise, he also constructed a lots of Buddhist temples and renovated many buildings in different temples which was very essential method of confidence in Buddhism creation of Khruba Srivijaiya.