Phanurat Achara

Thai Lifestyle

            Achara Phanurat*

     Thai Lifestyle is a heritage of wisdom with great pomp in Thailand.  Because Thai people have a system of thinking that combines beliefs about Buddhist Philosophy and "Thai  Jhana"  which it  was originally (since 700 years in the Sukhothai period), it is a heritage of wisdom that is intervened in folklore as follows

        Folk play, folk dance, folk song, folk arts, folk therapy, folk of self reliance healing and literature in a society of priests, ascetics, fortune tellers and folk doctors.  As evident from the activities of kite flying that has become a Thai sport or Jhana sport with great pomp both in the palace, the city, the countryside, and farmers.

....Nowadays, "contemplation sports or Jhana sport" has become a "Sai Mu tourism" value that is desirable and undesirable for the insiders in  Thailand.

        In some schools of thought throughout Thailand that create alternative medicine values ​​or integrate Buddhist philosophy are accepted more than others

  .......That is, Thai meditation and sports meditation, which has become a way of life for Thai people that appears as a selling point in tourism.  

        The Land of Smiles where Prof.Dr.Piotr  Przybylowski (Polish Doctor) has given the meaning in the song "ThailandIFF Giving Joy" which has the following lyrics....

"ThailandIFF Giving Joy", which has lyrics to support Thai beauty and the land of giving in the ThailandIFF festival and the smiles of Thai people

Reference Book

Phraya Bhirombhakdi (Boonrod Setthabutr) (1977) The Legend of Gambling Kites, Bangkok : Wattana Panich Publishing House

Dharma Dictionary  Buddhadasa Edition (2011), Bangkok : Thammasapa

Achara Phanurat (2008) Hibernation Laboratory@ Yasothon,

Surin : RDS PRESS.

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* Former President of Surindra Rajabhat University.

.....Emeritus Chair of Ph.D.curriculum in RDS(SRRU), Thailand.

.....Professor of The University of Science and Technology Meghalaya, India.

     And President of Thailand International Folklore Festival(Legal Entity by RDS Foundation, Thailand)