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Thai Buddhism and Online Social Media

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Abstract

The 21st-century world is an online social media age. Online social media brings enormous benefits but can also bring negative consequences if misused. Thailand is the same as other countries in this regard. Buddhism is the main religion in Thailand. Accordingly, Buddhism contains the Buddha’s teachingthat can be interpreted and applied for well-being of mankind. The paper will discuss the Buddha’s teaching for applying to solve online social media misusing and consequently will take examples of online social media using of Thai Buddhist monks to be a model of applying Thai Buddhism in using online social mediain order to be well-being in the present age. Thai Buddhist monks have started applying the Buddha’steaching, especially Trisikkhā, which is also known as Majimāpaṭipadā(the Middle Path), in using online social media in order not to be the victim and slave of online social media. Consequently, we could call this phenomenon the application of Thai Buddhism in online social media, which is potentially useful to not only Buddhist monks but to secular Thai Buddhists as well if it has been applied appropriatelyfor the sake of well-being.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)10-22
JournalJournal of MCU Social Development
Volume6
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - 31 Aug 2020

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education

Keywords

  • Online Social Media, Thai Buddhism, the Buddha’s teaching

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