ABSTRACT

                      The thematic paper, “An Analytical Study of Rāhula’s Buddhist Teaching” had two main purposes: (1) to study the Buddhist teaching in the Buddhist scripture and (2) to analyze Phra Rāhula’s Buddhist teaching. This was a qualitative research. A result of this study was found that the Buddhist teaching was divided into three ways: poems, prose, and mixed methods. This teaching depended upon three aspects: behaviour, mind, and wisdom. The content of this teaching was morality, concentration and wisdom. The Buddha’s teaching aimed at bringing advantages, compassion, and happiness to the public and the world.

             The Buddhist teaching learned by Phra Rāhula was in the following aspects. Firstly, in the span time of childhood, there was the simile instructional model that the Buddha got the comparison and represented the instructional instruments: water and a container used to wash his feet in many steps for recognition of danger from lying. Secondly, in the juvenile, there was the Yonisomanasikāra instructional model that the Buddha instructed Phra Rāhula to think in the right and systematic way, to analyze rationally, and to make the analysis with wisdom. Thirdly, in the teenage, there was the Trisikkhā instructional model that the Buddha represented a method of practice and gave Phra Rāhula an opportunity to practice it and consider its result in accordance of advantages and disadvantages as they really were. In the Anāpānassati instructional model, the Buddha made Phra Rāhula conscious of considering the emotion that was the ultimate truth. It was noted in the fact that Phra Rāhula attained the enlightenment by means of listening to the Buddha’s sermon in an order. Here, the Buddha instructed Phra Rāhula to be conscious of a body, speech and mind as a base to receive all good conducts. The Buddha instructed him about Three Characteristics for clear understanding the law of nature in a way that everything changed every time. When Rāhula was 20 of his age, he was considered as a wise man. The Buddha encouraged him to practice for the freedom from all suffering until Rāhula achieved the enlightenment in the first year of his Buddhist ordination. Phra Rāhula was praised as a specialist of education. He was responsible for the religious work and then, he got Nibbāna in the Tāvatingsa existence.   

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