ABSTRACT

                    The objectives of this research are: (1) to study the political articipations

of Thai monks according to the attitudes of students of Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University, (2) to compare the attitudes of students of Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University towards the political participations of Thai monks, classified by personal factors, and 3) to study the ways to promote the political participations of Thai monks according to the attitudes of students of Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University In this research, it carried out by the survey with a sample of 307 students from Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University. Tools used to collect the data were constructed by the researcher. The reliability efficient was 0.901. Data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The t-test is one way analysis of variance (One way ANOVA) and the difference of average earnings with the least significant difference (LSD)

The main findings of this research are as follows:

1. The attitudes of the students of Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University towards the political participations of Thai monks were in middle level all aspects (mean =3.03). When having considered by each aspect, it also found that the average in the middle level all aspects.

2.The comparison of the attitudes of students of Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University towards the political participations of Thai monks, classified by personal factors, such as status, age, year of monkhood, class of study, and faculty of study, founded that the students have personal factors different the attitudes toward the political participations of Thai monks no different, rejected the hypothesis.

3. The problems and obstacles toward the political participations of Thai monks found that the monks are limited from doing their political attitude, because they are the monks who could not play the political privilege and the law has not given them the chance to play polities and has the co-operation in the democratic system according the political rights.

The suggestion on given have are that there should be the law giving the right to the monks to participate the polities on the appropriate way. The monks should keep themselves in the central ways in supporting the political by giving the doctrinal principles which one in compliance the democratic system.