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Abstract
This thesis is of the aim to analyze the infringement associated with the feeding of the monks which appears Theravada Buddhist scriptures. The researcher determines the two objectives namely:- 1) To analytically study the offense in relation to the Monk’s Food Appearing in the Tipiṭaka in Theravada Buddhism 2) to analyze the penalties and the benefits from taking by the food monks as appearing in Theravada Buddhist Scriptures.
From the research, it is found that the food is the thing taken into the body for preventing the hunger and the danger arising from the food essence bringing to the body. Thus, the food in an important thing helping the body to be strong and complete. More ever, the food will be of both the benefit and the disadvantage. If a person takes it improperly, he will be of suffering. This fact will come the bodily organ to work improperly, the fact of which will bring the bad sickness to the taken. Thus, the Buddha taught the monks to know the proper measurement in taking food. The Buddha enacted the Vinaya about the manner and the ethics in taking the food, so that the monks may be of the food order and protect the lay peoples’ faith to be permanent for even
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