Why was Hindu temples like Angkor wat was turned into budhist temple by destroying the statue of deities? They should have built another temple for themselves
The history of Thailand is deeply interconnected with Buddhism and the country has played a vital role in preservation, development and growth of Buddhism across the world. Its very difficult to study both of them in isolation. Thanks for your kind comment.
Thailand is a very beautiful country and hopefully Buddhism will flourish forever so that citizens of Thailand stay compassionate and keep them from mindlessness ! After a stressful journey visiting Thailand calms once mind because of her nature, culture and of their politeness….
@@tsurugi5 Dear , We are always with you.🇱🇰💝🇹🇭 As the Dhammadweepa(The Dhamma Island) and the treasury of Dhamma to the world it's our duty to save & spread pure Therawada Buddhism for the sake of every living being. We two Therawada buddhist countries should spread Dhamma at our level best. Therawada Buddhism will lead you to Nibbana ..! "Nibbanan Paraman Sukan" Meaning - Nibbana is the utmost comfort May you obtain Happiness May you attain Nibbana ..! Theruwan Saranai🙏 🌸Sabbe saththa bawanthu sukithaththa 🙏🇹🇭🇱🇰☸️🇹🇭🇱🇰🙏
Buddhist heritage countries such as China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Taiwan, Cambodia, Laos, Bhutan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka among others should engage in increasing close cooperation in international affairs and regularly meet like the European Union or the OIC in the form of a League of Buddhist Nations.
@@aghi19097 Define Humanity and Define Religion. What about non - Human Living Beings? Who should look after them? humans based on their Religions. That is humanity.
@@senakaweeraratna741 Meanwhile some monoethists say that God creates animal, and animals are just tool to help human enter the heaven, there is no point for animals to enter the heaven.
I’m surprised and impressed by the mentioning of Ajhan Mun and the forest tradition. The discipline is gaining recognition both in Thailand and abroad, with its relevancy to everyday’s life and almost zen-like approach to it. Highly recommend to those who are interested in Buddhism
I’m Thai and impressed with your narrative. It’s very informative comprehensive. Nationalist governments always focus only on Sukhuthai, Ayutthaya and Rattanakosin kingdoms in Thai school ignoring older Tai and non-Tai states, e.g. Lanna, Dvaravati. Modern Thais are admixture of Mon-Khmer-speaking Dvaravati people who settled in Chao Phraya valley since prehistory and the Tai who migrated from the north. DNA tells the truth.
I am a Tibetan and follow Mahayana or the Sanskrit tradition. I found it very interesting how the Buddhism spread there in Thailand and faced a lot of hardship to get a good stronghold that it has now all through the kind and farsighted kings and Abbots . 🙏🌹🙏🌹🙏🌹🙏
One of the famous disciples of Luang Pu Mun is Luang Por Chah, whose disciples are now establishing and spreading the Buddhism all over the world. The first monastery that was established in the west was Wat Cittavivekha in West Sussex, London but now there are branches all over the world. You can google more if you are interested in the Thai forest tradition. 😊
Metta from Singapore. I am impressed by the forest tradition that focus on strict standards and meditation. No wonder they have so many self realised meditation masters.
India the predominant Religion is Hinduism, I hardly think that Buddhism is the predominant Religion or Philosophy of Life in India, even though it is the country of origin of Buddhism.
@@xana969 Buddhism is a growing religion in India, the actual population of Buddhist is much more higher than official data, a lot of underprivileged caste people are adopting Buddhist as per Dr Ambedkar guidance but official government figure is still counting them as Hindu in place of Buddhist
You speak as if we dharmic religions have no other threats to our culture that we need to go after each other. It’s the opposite, instead of fighting amongst ourselves, we dharmic religions need to unify against external threats to our culture and ways. We should accept the differences within and protect each other from external factors.
@@Hp108-7 bro, I am in complete agreement with you, but revival and reform both are important aspects of any culture, recently Tamilnadu government make law that they will allow people from all caste to become priest, they will have an entrance exam and some year training in Vedic ritual to become priest, then all brahmin organization went to TN High court and claimed that only brahmin are allowed to become priest, TN high court agreed with them and halted other caste priest from Temple, however it's completely illogical. If you don't allow us becoming priest in temple inspite of achieving all knowledge, training and required criteria, then what else you expect. Hinduism is completely taken over by brahminvaad which is completely against Vedic scripture, they have converted occupation dependent varna into Birth dependent caste, if you really study Veda and Vedic literature in details, you will find that brahminvaad don't worship any Vedic God, neither they follow any Vedic scripture Ritual, while Most Vedic God's are worshipped in Buddhism as Boddhistva, Indra is worshipped as Vajrapani, Surya is worshipped as Suryapravhu, and as other 24 protective deva, while Brahminvaad neither worship any Vedic God nor they follow any Vedic scripture, Buddhism is successor of Sanaatan Vedic religion it's our duty to make people aware about it, we need to understand India was a superpower under Rule of Buddhist emperor like Ashoka, Nanda Or Harshavardhan while we all know what happened after post Aadishankaracharya Brahminvaad, only Buddhism has power to unite all divided caste and regain our past glory🙏🙏
Thank you for showing me Thailand's remarkable history in such a clear, direct and informative video. Just to see that a Buddhist nation can exist is encouraging and refreshing. Looking into that image of Ajahn Mun, I see my own practice as a very weak one indeed compared to the immense clarity in his eyes... even filtered through a photograph and then filtered through a video looking into his eyes is a great gift...
That was one of the best and most densly packed informative videos I have ever seen on the subject, the editing was excellent too. You will make Thai people proud with this little historical piece as well, it's really well done. Thank you
Yes Ajay, there is an organisation called The World Fellowship of Buddhists, started in Sri Lanka around 1972 or so. Now the head Quarters is in a different country. A few years later, The World Fellowship Buddhist Youth was also founded, and I was the Founder Secretary General. Thanks for your important comment.
@@bandulaamarawardena6576 The World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) was founded by Dr. G.P. Malalasekera of Sri Lanka in 1950.its Headquarters are currently in Bangkok, Thailand. The World Fellowship of Buddhist Youth (WFBY) was founded by Nemsiri Muthukumaru of Sri Lanka.
@@senakaweeraratna741 Well done. All correct. Thanks. Yes, indeed, Nemsiri was the chairman, and I was the Founder Secretary of the WFBY. I think the WFB had an annual conference in around 1973 (in Sri Lanka), and probably that's what I remember. Sorry I am a bit out of touch, as I emigrated in 1975. But on the issue of connecting all Buddhists of the world, I wonder how much of that is happening, when companies are using the picture of the Buddha unethically...!!
@@lll2282 less likely as we South East Asian people already form a union the ASEAN if we create a union base on religion it wouldn't be that much economical benefit plus would break up ASEAN.
Please note Sanskrit is not script but language and its script is Nagri which also used to write Marathi , Hindi etc languages . As per language experts / scientists like Dr Rajender Prassad Singh , Shri Gunakar Mule etc that almost all scripts/ लिपि of south East Asia including Nagri has been evolved out of धम्मलिपि , which is the oldest written and deciphered script and language is Pali/ Prakrit mentioned at Samrat Asoka ‘s 3rd Century BC rock inscriptions. The further older script is from Indus Valley seals ,which till date yet to be deciphered. About 15 characters are resembling with धम्मलिपि बरखाड़ि / characters…hence possibility is that धम्मलिपि may also had evolved from that. Anyway scripts / languages are like living organisms…getting ever evolved /changes ,keeping present days needs and circumstances.
@@joel12388 Which inscription of sanskrit is written in Sidham? And why would japanese monks use this script when they had their own Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji ? Please point to some inscription. Ramanuja and Shankara cam 1200 yrs after buddha and both were stealing shoonyavad theory from Buddha. There is not a single manuscript or inscription from any of these. Just stop spreading misinformation. Hinduism was invented by shankara with Shiva and Ramanujcharya with Vishnu both of then didnt write anything and vedas only came after 14th century when Devanagari script was. completely build. Nagari lacked many alphabets and was closer to Pali than Devanagari. It took 400 yrs to develop Devanagari from Nagari which is when Vedas were first written.
I just read the first chapter of Dighyanikaya translated by B Sujato from the thai Theravada sect and arrived here to see about the Buddhist History of Thailand.
Great video! Thanks. Only a small mistake: The forest Tradition was formed/ initiated by Lungphu Sao and Lungphu Mun. Both came from the same temple and did not believe their teachers that nibbana could not be attained anymore. So they both went out into the forests, Lungphu Sao the senior one and Lungphu Mun. Both attained to arahantship and many of Lungphu Mun's disciples reached Arahantship. More than 60 monks closer to 100 attained to Arahantship and this makes Thailand the "richest" country in the world in terms of Arahants.
Love the way he emphasise “H” when he says Buddhism. I tried this many time, but I could not get it!! Thank you for a lovely and enlightening set of details on the subject. Superb work; sharing with friends!!
In Thailand kingdom can be fall but Theravada Buddhism will be not .Some king or people in Thailand history can sacrifice their live to protect the Buddhism.
I'm a Buddhist with ancestry from neighbouring Laos. Very impressed by your thorough yet succinct summary of two millennia of Buddhist history in Southeast Asia. Lao Buddhism and Thai Buddhism share overwhelming similarity, although Lao Buddhism has a slightly stronger Brahmin and Tai Folk Religion (satsana phi) influence. Buddhism in Laos didnt go through the Thammayut and Ajahn Mun reformations. (Even though Ajahn Mun was ethnically Lao and spent his childhood there, the Thai forest tradition is uniquely Thai Isan.) May the owners of this channel receive great merits for propagation of the dharma. 🙏
I am Christian ☦, I like to learn about all different religions in my own time, I live in Japan. I would like to visit Thailand at some point to get a feel for how Buddhism ☸shapes life there, particularly outside of really big cities (urbanization almost feels like its own religion). I want to do something similar in parts of Japan as well where statistics show there are more Buddhists. Take care, God bless you.
1st time to watch your channel. Big topic, condensed into a nice short show. I had no idea Burma Kings were so aggressive toward Thailand. Not once or in one time period, but over and over again. Happy Trails
Thanks for your kind suggestion, will cover them in future. You may like to check this video on Kanheri caves in Mumbai: Kanheri Caves: The Great Buddhist Civilization of Western India Video Link : th-cam.com/video/8lf3ghJRazU/w-d-xo.html
Also Thai royalty use Brahmin priests and Vedic Yagya and pujas . The Kings have the names of Rama as in the Ramayana and the ancient capital of Siam was Ayuthia named after Ayodhya Rama's kingdom in India in the Ramayana .
What you called King Rama I -X, are actually called R. ( ร.) I - X which is an accronym for Rajkaal (Royal Era.). British called this R as Rama during a time when they occupied India, Thai people never called Thai king as Rama in Thai language. Just like how British called Thai capital as Bangkok, Thai people never called Thai capital as Bangkok in Thai language.
Thai people never call a king Rama, a name that Thai kings only call foreigners because the Thai name is difficult to read. King Wachirawut knows well. When he was studying in Oxford, when he ascended the throne So what do you have to do that make it easier for foreigners to understand
I always pray for Thailand's Goodness . Thailand's Great king may with all good behaviour and mey luxurious to protect world Buddhism in the power of Noble Trple Gem. As well , Myanmar , Cambodia , laos and my mother Land, Sri Lanka also may hava Good Strong to protect Buddhism .. Devo Waaatu kalena Sassasampatti Hotucha Pitobhvatu lokocha Raja Bhavatu Dhammiko...
Buddha isn't a religion but a way of life ,religion is where you join just because you want to go heaven afterlife but a buddhist have to work their mind back to nirvana state
The Thai Forest Tradition is very impressive and has a valuable presence in the UK (my home country) with several monasteries like Amaravati. Teachings and opportunities to stay there are offered all on a donation basis.
Thank you very much for your clip. The Thai King that recovered Thailand from Burmese name “Taksin not Taskin” I heard from other channels about Thai history made mistaken like this also, may be the AI try to correct it but it’s wrong.
Thai people are descendant of many ethnics, you shouldn't expect the irrational sudden extinct of all indigenous ethnics after just the coming of Tai immigrants. The majorities of Thai lineages are actually the ancient Mon (indigenous) and Tai (immigrant from China, chased away by Han Chinese then migrated south). Mon are people of Dvaravati kingdom (a kingdom to the west of Isanpura, kingdom of the first Khmer). Dvaravati's Mon civilization is the predecessor of Khmer civilization. Dvaravati itself inherited so many cultures, religion, and knowledge from ancient India. There are many civilizations around this area that inherited prosperities from India so no one can actually claim the origin but India itself. Cambodians who claim originality are just the uneducated. They misbelieve they originated all civilizations of southeast Asia but in fact their Khmer civilization is but the last of the ancient civilizations of ancient southeast Asia. You can check timelines of Dvaravati, Srivijaya and Sri Kaset compare to Khmer empire and see for yourself. After the merge of Mon and Tai people who became the first Thai group following the fall of Khmer, the modern history of the land had begun. All the Cambodians know is they're the predecessor to Thai modern civilization but with their lack of education, they never aware that many civilizations of this land had came before theirs. Some of them even misbelieve that Khmer civilization is the origin of the universe.
I dismiss uneducated Khmer nationalists claims. But be careful with your claims. Funan was also the first one and before Dvarawati. The achievements of Dvarawati by the way are MINIMAL, in terms of archeological remnants. People need to be wary of uneducated remarks, or go back to where they came from. Regardless, you have no basis of legitimacy. The first kingdoms were Khmer and Malay origins (Bujang Valley, Funan, and other places in Borneo or Java). Mon people were another subbranch of the austroasiatic peoples, Just like the Javanese, Sundanese and Balinese, and the list continues. Go back to where you came from. The Mon were the least in achievements compared to the rest of us, including Cham kingdoms. regardless of their help in spreading Buddhism, and their newly achievements under a Thai identity. Those reading the comments, please thoroughly research southeast asian history before these invaders trampled and claimed our legacy and create problems. Thai nationalists are also as ridiculous as the rest of the claimants in southeast asia, and most of us are aware. Not everything is Indian either. They have Austroasiatic and Southeast Asian influences in Indian culture. Tai Kadai invaders, including Vietnamese, are a source for the mess in the mainland. And the same goes for Mon traitors.
@@gold-toponym Another Cambodian claimer. Again and again, far cry from reality, you just try and try to claim your ancestry as the origin of SEA civilizations, ignoring tons of facts and proofs which are against your self-centered claim. There are 50+ ruins of Dvaravati and other worldwide-known older than Khmer civilizations in Thailand today whose architectures manifest originality of Khmer's, widely proving Khmer isn't the origin of any civ. and you even disqualify them just by remarking those civilizations as "MINIMAL achievements". Of course the Khmer was the most successful group before the Thai, it surpassed civilizations before it, but you can never just claim the most successful as the origin of all. Next time try to be more rational.
@@gold-toponym No. You just said the civilizations before Khmer weren't as successful so they didn't originate and Khmer becomes the first civilization ? That's the funniest self-theory ever 🤣
@@enlightenedlearner434 no where did I claim that. Khmer and the siblings Cham, Javanese, Malay, all had successful kingdoms. Dvarawati is not on par in such aspects. There's even older Khmer ruins than dvarawati, just not in Thailand, if that's the argument. I am not talking about other Mon kingdoms of the north and west, they had their own achievements. Sorry that you had felt inferior that you had to mix with invaders to overthrow a power. Maybe that's why the Burmese did what they did. Go back to where you came from. And no. Khmer are not the origin lmfao, only uneducated Khmer make that remark. And it's due to our relationship to the neighbors and a terrible recent history. Does not make their claims right in any way. That's plain stupid and they make us look stupid. Your nationalists are just the same way. So there's no comparison. Indonesians are the same to Malaysians. Doesn't make it right
Actually the new evidence proves that the Forest Monk was founded since 6th century Dvaravati period especially in the mountain area of U Thong ancient city.
Sneaking a lot of Hinduism in there although there was no such thing during those times. It was called samkhya, Hindu was a name given to the people living south of the Indus River by Persian mongol kings.
There was nothing called Buddhism as well if you want to go by that rule. These are modern constructs made by British. All indian religions were called dharma not Buddhism, hinduism or Jainism.
@@fomoviews2642 dharma or universal law which was taught by Buddha was called Buddha dharma, not just dharma. It is true that everything we term is just a conceptual construct but it’s context lies in that it implies that the term Buddhism is an interpretation of Buddha dharma. While Hinduism is an umbrella term.
I am from Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka and Thailand have had very strong relationship with each other because of Buddhism ❤
🙏 Namaste brother
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🙏❤️❤️❤️🇹🇭
Love from India🇮🇳
As a Thai person, I am impressed with how thoroughly descriptive this video is. Thank you for doing this.
Thanks for your kind appreciation. I am glad that the video was worth your time.
Why was Hindu temples like Angkor wat was turned into budhist temple by destroying the statue of deities? They should have built another temple for themselves
Insect eater 😂😂😂😂😂
As a Thai , you talk not only about Buddhism in Thailand but also all Thailand history in short and clearly, thank you so much 🙏
The history of Thailand is deeply interconnected with Buddhism and the country has played a vital role in preservation, development and growth of Buddhism across the world. Its very difficult to study both of them in isolation. Thanks for your kind comment.
Love Thailand from the land of buddhism Bharata 🇮🇳☸️🕉️
I love Thailand and Thai people. I am an Indian Hindu but agnostic. Buddhism seems to me one of the more peaceful religions in the world.
I am Thai too
We love hinduism too❤🕉
It was our ancestors religion
Jesus is the only way to everlasting life! Jesus said I'm the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me!
@@jesseguenet2910 you have voice recording of him saying it with visual proof of his sayings.
I am from Buddhism country Bhutan 🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹👌👌😍😍
Namo Buddhay !!
Which form of budhism Bhutanese people follow Vajryan or Tantrayan
@@worldgamingculture5052 it's doesn't matter vajrayan, tantryan, u following buddha's teaching enough
Thailand is a very beautiful country and hopefully Buddhism will flourish forever so that citizens of Thailand stay compassionate and keep them from mindlessness ! After a stressful journey visiting Thailand calms once mind because of her nature, culture and of their politeness….
Thailand a great Nation.🇹🇭
The bond between Sri Lanka & Thailand is very deep.
🇱🇰🇹🇭🇱🇰🇹🇭🇱🇰🇹🇭🇱🇰🇹🇭
greetings from thailand, we are grateful to your ancestors for gifting us with theravada
@@tsurugi5
Dear ,
We are always with you.🇱🇰💝🇹🇭
As the Dhammadweepa(The Dhamma Island) and the treasury of Dhamma to the world it's our duty to save & spread pure Therawada Buddhism for the sake of every living being.
We two Therawada buddhist countries should spread Dhamma at our level best.
Therawada Buddhism will lead you to Nibbana ..!
"Nibbanan Paraman Sukan"
Meaning - Nibbana is the utmost comfort
May you obtain Happiness
May you attain Nibbana ..!
Theruwan Saranai🙏
🌸Sabbe saththa bawanthu sukithaththa
🙏🇹🇭🇱🇰☸️🇹🇭🇱🇰🙏
I love thailand .from sri lanka🇱🇰
Thank you for " reminding " of how widespread Buddhism is around the world ! Very impressive , very Beautiful
Thanks for your kind comment. I am glad that you liked the video.
Buddhist heritage countries such as China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Taiwan, Cambodia, Laos, Bhutan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka among others should engage in increasing close cooperation in international affairs and regularly meet like the European Union or the OIC in the form of a League of Buddhist Nations.
Most of these country are part of RCEP
Yeah I agree. This world certainly could benefit from Buddhist teachings. ☸️
Don't Build's country's religion base? Humanity First
@@aghi19097 Define Humanity and Define Religion.
What about non - Human Living Beings? Who should look after them? humans based on their Religions. That is humanity.
@@senakaweeraratna741 Meanwhile some monoethists say that God creates animal, and animals are just tool to help human enter the heaven, there is no point for animals to enter the heaven.
For some reason, I have become fascinated by Buddhism and its history. May be its peaceful nature attracts me.
South asia,central asia was Buddhist bcz muslim invasion
Say thanks to india 🇮🇳
I’m surprised and impressed by the mentioning of Ajhan Mun and the forest tradition. The discipline is gaining recognition both in Thailand and abroad, with its relevancy to everyday’s life and almost zen-like approach to it. Highly recommend to those who are interested in Buddhism
Viyana
I’m Thai and impressed with your narrative. It’s very informative comprehensive. Nationalist governments always focus only on Sukhuthai, Ayutthaya and Rattanakosin kingdoms in Thai school ignoring older Tai and non-Tai states, e.g. Lanna, Dvaravati. Modern Thais are admixture of Mon-Khmer-speaking Dvaravati people who settled in Chao Phraya valley since prehistory and the Tai who migrated from the north. DNA tells the truth.
Thanks. I am glad that you liked the video.
As a Thai national I have the utmost respect respect for the Great King Ashoka - วิดีโอสุดยอด 🙏🏼
Bit correction, Ashoka The Great was Emperor (King of Kings), not just King.
As a hindu..i always pray Thailand to remain only Buddhist..hope malicious sneaky snakes don't enter and disrupt peace in this beautiful country 🙏
"malicious sneaky snakes"
Which one do you mean?
@@kalimacho1the hindooesss destroyed buddhismm in india.... and in my hometown of gaya..snd they are trying to make muslims as bad personn
@@kalimacho1he was taking about muslim
@@debiagungte9466hindus*
@@debiagungte9466already enter
I am a Tibetan and follow Mahayana or the Sanskrit tradition. I found it very interesting how the Buddhism spread there in Thailand and faced a lot of hardship to get a good stronghold that it has now all through the kind and farsighted kings and Abbots .
🙏🌹🙏🌹🙏🌹🙏
เมืองไทยเมืองพุทธ เมืองแห่งพระพุทธศาสนา เมืองแห่งรอยยิ้มและน้ำใจ สยามเมืองยิ้ม❤️🙏🏻🇹🇭
Sadhu..Sadhu...Sadhu !!
พุทธพานิช
You are accumulating enormous merits by uploading these videos.thank you very much.much merits to you.greetings and blessings from sri lanka.
Thanks for your kind wishes and blessings. This really mean a lot to us. Namo Buddhay !!
Keep up the good work! Sadhu x3!
Very interesting video. Thailand is one of my favourite countries. Such an interesting culture, beautiful nature, etc.
Thanks for your kind comment and for sharing your experience. I am glad that you found the video interesting .
One of the famous disciples of Luang Pu Mun is Luang Por Chah, whose disciples are now establishing and spreading the Buddhism all over the world. The first monastery that was established in the west was Wat Cittavivekha in West Sussex, London but now there are branches all over the world. You can google more if you are interested in the Thai forest tradition. 😊
A wonderful country and people
I have only been there 3 times and cannot wait to go again
Metta from Singapore. I am impressed by the forest tradition that focus on strict standards and meditation. No wonder they have so many self realised meditation masters.
i think homosexuality version starts in thiland first,,,,,,,its very common in thiland
I’m not Buddhism but I enjoy your video very much. I find your timelines and geographic locations very accurate. Thanks.
Let's hope India also become a Buddhist nation again in future 🙏🙏
India the predominant Religion is Hinduism, I hardly think that Buddhism is the predominant Religion or Philosophy of Life in India, even though it is the country of origin of Buddhism.
@@xana969 Buddhism is a growing religion in India, the actual population of Buddhist is much more higher than official data, a lot of underprivileged caste people are adopting Buddhist as per Dr Ambedkar guidance but official government figure is still counting them as Hindu in place of Buddhist
You speak as if we dharmic religions have no other threats to our culture that we need to go after each other.
It’s the opposite, instead of fighting amongst ourselves, we dharmic religions need to unify against external threats to our culture and ways. We should accept the differences within and protect each other from external factors.
धर्म न हिंदू बुद्ध है, धर्म चित्त की शुद्धता धर्म सुख शान्ति और चैन
@@Hp108-7 bro, I am in complete agreement with you, but revival and reform both are important aspects of any culture, recently Tamilnadu government make law that they will allow people from all caste to become priest, they will have an entrance exam and some year training in Vedic ritual to become priest, then all brahmin organization went to TN High court and claimed that only brahmin are allowed to become priest, TN high court agreed with them and halted other caste priest from Temple, however it's completely illogical. If you don't allow us becoming priest in temple inspite of achieving all knowledge, training and required criteria, then what else you expect. Hinduism is completely taken over by brahminvaad which is completely against Vedic scripture, they have converted occupation dependent varna into Birth dependent caste, if you really study Veda and Vedic literature in details, you will find that brahminvaad don't worship any Vedic God, neither they follow any Vedic scripture Ritual, while Most Vedic God's are worshipped in Buddhism as Boddhistva, Indra is worshipped as Vajrapani, Surya is worshipped as Suryapravhu, and as other 24 protective deva, while Brahminvaad neither worship any Vedic God nor they follow any Vedic scripture, Buddhism is successor of Sanaatan Vedic religion it's our duty to make people aware about it, we need to understand India was a superpower under Rule of Buddhist emperor like Ashoka, Nanda Or Harshavardhan while we all know what happened after post Aadishankaracharya Brahminvaad, only Buddhism has power to unite all divided caste and regain our past glory🙏🙏
Thank you for showing me Thailand's remarkable history in such a clear, direct and informative video. Just to see that a Buddhist nation can exist is encouraging and refreshing. Looking into that image of Ajahn Mun, I see my own practice as a very weak one indeed compared to the immense clarity in his eyes... even filtered through a photograph and then filtered through a video looking into his eyes is a great gift...
Such a beautiful Buddhist monastery area 🙏☸️Buddha 💎,Dhamma💎,Sangha💎Namo Buddhaya
That was one of the best and most densly packed informative videos I have ever seen on the subject, the editing was excellent too. You will make Thai people proud with this little historical piece as well, it's really well done.
Thank you
Amazing Thailand 🇹🇭
i think homosexuality is also part of thai religion,,,,,it is very commmon in thiland,,,
@@ZOYARAJPUT-x5gwhats wrong with that?
Excellent video. I love Thailand, thank you for this video
I am so glad to see this video. In the last few weeks I started wondering about Buddhism in Thailand, origins and practice.
Thanks as Sri Lanka as Myanmar spreading Theravada buddhism in Indochina peninsula.
Another amazing video about Buddhist culture 👍🤗 This video was amazing sir hope u will do a video on Myanmar as well 😁
Thanks for your kind appreciation. Please stay tune for the suggested video. Namo Buddhay !!
All buddhist must reunite .
Yes Ajay, there is an organisation called The World Fellowship of Buddhists, started in Sri Lanka around 1972 or so. Now the head Quarters is in a different country. A few years later, The World Fellowship Buddhist Youth was also founded, and I was the Founder Secretary General. Thanks for your important comment.
@@bandulaamarawardena6576 The World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) was founded by Dr. G.P. Malalasekera of Sri Lanka in 1950.its Headquarters are currently in Bangkok, Thailand. The World Fellowship of Buddhist Youth (WFBY) was founded by Nemsiri Muthukumaru of Sri Lanka.
@@senakaweeraratna741 Well done. All correct. Thanks. Yes, indeed, Nemsiri was the chairman, and I was the Founder Secretary of the WFBY. I think the WFB had an annual conference in around 1973 (in Sri Lanka), and probably that's what I remember. Sorry I am a bit out of touch, as I emigrated in 1975. But on the issue of connecting all Buddhists of the world, I wonder how much of that is happening, when companies are using the picture of the Buddha unethically...!!
Thank you for this wonderful and profound video. I learned many, many interesting things here. 💖
Very informational video, got to know some history about Thailand, which I was totally unaware about!!💯
නමෝ බුද්ධාය❤️🇱🇰☸️
All buddhist countries should maked union 😊
Sadhu3☸
I think all dharmic nations should unite and spread dharma
No
@@lll2282 less likely as we South East Asian people already form a union the ASEAN if we create a union base on religion it wouldn't be that much economical benefit plus would break up ASEAN.
How many are there ?
Please note Sanskrit is not script but language and its script is Nagri which also used to write Marathi , Hindi etc languages . As per language experts / scientists like Dr Rajender Prassad Singh , Shri Gunakar Mule etc that almost all scripts/ लिपि of south East Asia including Nagri has been evolved out of धम्मलिपि , which is the oldest written and deciphered script and language is Pali/ Prakrit mentioned at Samrat Asoka ‘s 3rd Century BC rock inscriptions. The further older script is from Indus Valley seals ,which till date yet to be deciphered. About 15 characters are resembling with धम्मलिपि बरखाड़ि / characters…hence possibility is that धम्मलिपि may also had evolved from that. Anyway scripts / languages are like living organisms…getting ever evolved /changes ,keeping present days needs and circumstances.
Thanks for the comment and insight .
@@joel12388 Which inscription of sanskrit is written in Sidham? And why would japanese monks use this script when they had their own Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji ? Please point to some inscription. Ramanuja and Shankara cam 1200 yrs after buddha and both were stealing shoonyavad theory from Buddha. There is not a single manuscript or inscription from any of these. Just stop spreading misinformation. Hinduism was invented by shankara with Shiva and Ramanujcharya with Vishnu both of then didnt write anything and vedas only came after 14th century when Devanagari script was. completely build. Nagari lacked many alphabets and was closer to Pali than Devanagari. It took 400 yrs to develop Devanagari from Nagari which is when Vedas were first written.
You are correct
It is Khmer script not Sanskrit script though written as Sanskrit language
Thank you for " reminding " of how widespread Buddhism is around the world !
I just read the first chapter of Dighyanikaya translated by B Sujato from the thai Theravada sect and arrived here to see about the Buddhist History of Thailand.
Great video! Thanks. Only a small mistake: The forest Tradition was formed/ initiated by Lungphu Sao and Lungphu Mun. Both came from the same temple and did not believe their teachers that nibbana could not be attained anymore. So they both went out into the forests, Lungphu Sao the senior one and Lungphu Mun. Both attained to arahantship and many of Lungphu Mun's disciples reached Arahantship. More than 60 monks closer to 100 attained to Arahantship and this makes Thailand the "richest" country in the world in terms of Arahants.
Love the way he emphasise “H” when he says Buddhism. I tried this many time, but I could not get it!! Thank you for a lovely and enlightening set of details on the subject. Superb work; sharing with friends!!
In Thailand kingdom can be fall but Theravada Buddhism will be not .Some king or people in Thailand history can sacrifice their live to protect the Buddhism.
I'm a Buddhist with ancestry from neighbouring Laos. Very impressed by your thorough yet succinct summary of two millennia of Buddhist history in Southeast Asia. Lao Buddhism and Thai Buddhism share overwhelming similarity, although Lao Buddhism has a slightly stronger Brahmin and Tai Folk Religion (satsana phi) influence. Buddhism in Laos didnt go through the Thammayut and Ajahn Mun reformations. (Even though Ajahn Mun was ethnically Lao and spent his childhood there, the Thai forest tradition is uniquely Thai Isan.) May the owners of this channel receive great merits for propagation of the dharma. 🙏
Good work! Very informative video.
Thanks. Thanks for your kind appreciation.
As a Thai, I'm really impressed by your video. Thank you so much for this great and informative video. 🙏❤️👍
Proud to be thai buddhist ☸️
Thank you for sharing this historical information 🙏
I am glad that you found the video informative. Thanks.
Thank you for your indepth information 🙏
Thanks. I am glad that you found the video informative .
Beautiful architecture
Thank you so much for your Information 🙏🇹🇭❤️
I am glad that you liked the video.
Awesome history re telling! Keep it up!
Thanks for your kind appreciation. This really means a lot to us !!
Brilliant, Fantastic
I am Christian ☦, I like to learn about all different religions in my own time, I live in Japan. I would like to visit Thailand at some point to get a feel for how Buddhism ☸shapes life there, particularly outside of really big cities (urbanization almost feels like its own religion). I want to do something similar in parts of Japan as well where statistics show there are more Buddhists. Take care, God bless you.
1st time to watch your channel. Big topic, condensed into a nice short show. I had no idea Burma Kings were so aggressive toward Thailand. Not once or in one time period, but over and over again. Happy Trails
Great video. Could you do one of how Buddhism spread to China?
Thanks for your kind feedback and suggestion. Please stay tuned for the suggested video.
Sadhu.......
Sadhu.........
Sadhu............
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Namo Buddhay !!
thanks for the informative video. Can anyone tell me the difference between buddhist temple and monastery?
Present day we mostly hear about Adjan Cha's forest monastery tradition which is a popular practice.
Hello please can you share information about buddhist caves Maharashtra❤thank you💗🙏 Namo budhaya
Thanks for your kind suggestion, will cover them in future. You may like to check this video on Kanheri caves in Mumbai:
Kanheri Caves: The Great Buddhist Civilization of Western India
Video Link : th-cam.com/video/8lf3ghJRazU/w-d-xo.html
Also Thai royalty use Brahmin priests and Vedic Yagya and pujas . The Kings have the names of Rama as in the Ramayana and the ancient capital of Siam was Ayuthia named after Ayodhya Rama's kingdom in India in the Ramayana .
That is bcz brahmins went Thailand to spread castesism
@@privilegedindiansrworsthum8408 read your own Tripitak, it is filled with casteism.
What you called King Rama I -X, are actually called R. ( ร.) I - X which is an accronym for Rajkaal (Royal Era.). British called this R as Rama during a time when they occupied India, Thai people never called Thai king as Rama in Thai language. Just like how British called Thai capital as Bangkok, Thai people never called Thai capital as Bangkok in Thai language.
Thai people never call a king Rama, a name that Thai kings only call foreigners because the Thai name is difficult to read. King Wachirawut knows well. When he was studying in Oxford, when he ascended the throne So what do you have to do that make it easier for foreigners to understand
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Great information, thank you🙏
I always pray for Thailand's Goodness . Thailand's Great king may with all good behaviour and mey luxurious to protect world Buddhism in the power of Noble Trple Gem.
As well , Myanmar , Cambodia , laos and my mother Land, Sri Lanka also may hava Good Strong to protect Buddhism ..
Devo Waaatu kalena
Sassasampatti Hotucha
Pitobhvatu lokocha
Raja Bhavatu Dhammiko...
I’m Thai thanks for sharing this.🙏🙏🙏
Thanks. I am glad that you liked the video.
Buddha isn't a religion but a way of life ,religion is where you join just because you want to go heaven afterlife but a buddhist have to work their mind back to nirvana state
Pretty extraordinary, 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for your kind appreciation !! I am glad that you liked the video.
The Thai Forest Tradition is very impressive and has a valuable presence in the UK (my home country) with several
monasteries like Amaravati. Teachings and opportunities to stay there are offered all on a donation basis.
Sathu Sathu Sathu 🙏🙏🙏I am still Budhisom today 🙏🇹🇭🙏
Namo Buddhay !!
Very interesting. Thank you.
I am glad that you liked the video. Thanks.
Namo buddha 🙏🙏❤️❤️
Wow Amazing country
God Bless You All
Thank you again.
Greetings from Sri Lanka
Thanks. I am glad that the video was worth your time. Namo Buddhay !!
When in Thailand I follow the Monk every morning.
Isnt the name Taksin. He is saying Taskin.....
Thanks for the Correction. Regret the error !!
it's a beautiful country, luckily did not accept islam like Indonesia and Malaysia, Thailand is still wonderful.
It is possible to have complete Buddhism history in other Southeast Asia countries lke Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia? thanks
Would be great if you could do "how buddhism entered Japan" too. 🙇🙏❤️
Well Japanese will interested in China from language, costume to Buddhism and there you know
We Are relations thank to lord Buddha.
Namo buddhaya.from Sri lanka❤❤
hope Philippines will become a Buddhist country too.
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☸️ Namo ☸️ Buddhaya ☸️
Namo Buddhay !!
Taksin not Taskin! Thanks for your great video!
Thank you 🙏🏼
Namo Buddhay !!
Tasking is typo. The correct one is Taksin.
Yes, you are correct. Regret the error !!
Thank you very much for your clip. The Thai King that recovered Thailand from Burmese name “Taksin not Taskin” I heard from other channels about Thai history made mistaken like this also, may be the AI try to correct it but it’s wrong.
Thai people are descendant of many ethnics, you shouldn't expect the irrational sudden extinct of all indigenous ethnics after just the coming of Tai immigrants. The majorities of Thai lineages are actually the ancient Mon (indigenous) and Tai (immigrant from China, chased away by Han Chinese then migrated south). Mon are people of Dvaravati kingdom (a kingdom to the west of Isanpura, kingdom of the first Khmer). Dvaravati's Mon civilization is the predecessor of Khmer civilization. Dvaravati itself inherited so many cultures, religion, and knowledge from ancient India. There are many civilizations around this area that inherited prosperities from India so no one can actually claim the origin but India itself. Cambodians who claim originality are just the uneducated. They misbelieve they originated all civilizations of southeast Asia but in fact their Khmer civilization is but the last of the ancient civilizations of ancient southeast Asia. You can check timelines of Dvaravati, Srivijaya and Sri Kaset compare to Khmer empire and see for yourself.
After the merge of Mon and Tai people who became the first Thai group following the fall of Khmer, the modern history of the land had begun. All the Cambodians know is they're the predecessor to Thai modern civilization but with their lack of education, they never aware that many civilizations of this land had came before theirs. Some of them even misbelieve that Khmer civilization is the origin of the universe.
I dismiss uneducated Khmer nationalists claims. But be careful with your claims. Funan was also the first one and before Dvarawati. The achievements of Dvarawati by the way are MINIMAL, in terms of archeological remnants.
People need to be wary of uneducated remarks, or go back to where they came from. Regardless, you have no basis of legitimacy. The first kingdoms were Khmer and Malay origins (Bujang Valley, Funan, and other places in Borneo or Java). Mon people were another subbranch of the austroasiatic peoples, Just like the Javanese, Sundanese and Balinese, and the list continues. Go back to where you came from.
The Mon were the least in achievements compared to the rest of us, including Cham kingdoms. regardless of their help in spreading Buddhism, and their newly achievements under a Thai identity.
Those reading the comments, please thoroughly research southeast asian history before these invaders trampled and claimed our legacy and create problems. Thai nationalists are also as ridiculous as the rest of the claimants in southeast asia, and most of us are aware. Not everything is Indian either. They have Austroasiatic and Southeast Asian influences in Indian culture.
Tai Kadai invaders, including Vietnamese, are a source for the mess in the mainland. And the same goes for Mon traitors.
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@@gold-toponym Another Cambodian claimer. Again and again, far cry from reality, you just try and try to claim your ancestry as the origin of SEA civilizations, ignoring tons of facts and proofs which are against your self-centered claim. There are 50+ ruins of Dvaravati and other worldwide-known older than Khmer civilizations in Thailand today whose architectures manifest originality of Khmer's, widely proving Khmer isn't the origin of any civ. and you even disqualify them just by remarking those civilizations as "MINIMAL achievements". Of course the Khmer was the most successful group before the Thai, it surpassed civilizations before it, but you can never just claim the most successful as the origin of all. Next time try to be more rational.
@@gold-toponym No. You just said the civilizations before Khmer weren't as successful so they didn't originate and Khmer becomes the first civilization ? That's the funniest self-theory ever 🤣
@@enlightenedlearner434 no where did I claim that. Khmer and the siblings Cham, Javanese, Malay, all had successful kingdoms. Dvarawati is not on par in such aspects. There's even older Khmer ruins than dvarawati, just not in Thailand, if that's the argument. I am not talking about other Mon kingdoms of the north and west, they had their own achievements.
Sorry that you had felt inferior that you had to mix with invaders to overthrow a power. Maybe that's why the Burmese did what they did.
Go back to where you came from.
And no. Khmer are not the origin lmfao, only uneducated Khmer make that remark. And it's due to our relationship to the neighbors and a terrible recent history. Does not make their claims right in any way. That's plain stupid and they make us look stupid.
Your nationalists are just the same way. So there's no comparison. Indonesians are the same to Malaysians. Doesn't make it right
Nice
Please do video of buddhist History in laos too.
Actually the new evidence proves that the Forest Monk was founded since 6th century Dvaravati period especially in the mountain area of U Thong ancient city.
Namo Buddhay 🙏🏻
Namo Buddhay !!
Sneaking a lot of Hinduism in there although there was no such thing during those times. It was called samkhya, Hindu was a name given to the people living south of the Indus River by Persian mongol kings.
There was nothing called Buddhism as well if you want to go by that rule. These are modern constructs made by British. All indian religions were called dharma not Buddhism, hinduism or Jainism.
@@fomoviews2642 dharma or universal law which was taught by Buddha was called Buddha dharma, not just dharma. It is true that everything we term is just a conceptual construct but it’s context lies in that it implies that the term Buddhism is an interpretation of Buddha dharma. While Hinduism is an umbrella term.
Plz make next vedio on buddhism in tibet
I am noticing Tartarian architecture in Buddhist temples.
Namo buddaya
5:28 Thai script is inspiration of Tamil pallava grantha script not Sanskrit's script
Namo buddhay from india❤
Thanks 🙏🏾
Super News Video
Please do more research about the Thai script. According to Wikipedia the script comes from old Tamil.