The title of research study is the characteristic of the Bodhisattva’s patience (Khanti) in Mahānipāta Jātaka. The objectives are 1) to study of the meaning of patience (Khanti) in Buddhism, 2) to study of the characteristic of the Bodhisattva’s patience in Mahānipāta Jātaka, and 3) to apply the Bodhisattva’s patience in Mahānipāta Jātaka into daily life. In this study, the researcher has studied the documentary research which has collected the data, has studied from the documents and related research for analysis the detail.

                  The result of research found that:-

1) The meaning of Khanti in Buddhism is it should be endured when faced with physical and mental suffering such as to endure with the condition of heat or cold, to endure from the physical suffering when being illness, to endure on dispraise, and to endure with greed, anger, and delusion.  That is the patience with the physical and mental suffering, to control one’s mind not following the desire, to be patient when getting undesirable thing, to know how to be a patient endurance which do not show any bad behavior to oneself and others. In other hand, it means the strength of a person's mind to avoid evil, do goodness, and purify the mind. Although he is attached by the undesirable thing, but he can protect oneself from the desirable or undesirable things. He is a strong as the earth; he is not vacillated ever though people poured the waste of the scent of the dirty or the good.

2) The characteristic of the Bodhisattva’s patience in Mahānipāta Jātaka, Khanti in Mahānipāta Jātaka from Temiya-jataka to Vessantara-jātaka, and the researcher totally found that Khanti appearing in each Mahānipāta Jātakahas appeared clearly, but some Jātaka has depended on around content which related each other. The researcher took the issue to expand the detail for analysis in the story which appeared in Mahānipāta Jātaka. It can be concluded as follow, Khanti is the important dhamma to the ten Bodhisattva’s lives, from the beginning issue saw that Bodhisattva has depended on the Khanti in common, middle Khanti, and supreme Khanti which is to devote life. These three inserted in the entire contents of each story, for example Suvannasāma tāpasa was shot by the arrows but he was revived by the meritorious making. At the same time, Suvannasāma tāpasa has patience, he was not afraid of death, but he was worried about his parent. It means that the characteristic of middle and supreme Khanti live each together, he had controlled his mindfulness without lost, etc. So, all human beings from the beginning have remembering until grown up. In each age they will practice the daily routine of each period, they have their duty of each age from the primary school to the higher education, and working age has the family to old age. The overcoming in each age has depended on the Buddha’s word, which is Khanti. It is a simple principle for living. Without any bone, the person cannot walk; lack of something to make life is not smooth. If without patience the Bodhisattva cannot be achieved. If he wishes to be Buddhahood, he must wait for a long time. The patient one from the childhood to old age as the bodhisattva who has always practice. It is to make life happy. Although in the beginning life has many barriers to obstruction. He can be overcome, it likes as the life of Bodhisattva in Mahānipāta who had overcome many obstructions. All the mentioned, Khanti is the important role to the ten Bodhisattvas, no matter where he is, what’s time, or how the situation is, he was lived by Khanti. Khanti is the principle of living, happiness or unhappiness in your life was solved by Khanti.

3) The application of Khanti of the Bodhisattva in Mahānipāta Jātakainto daily life, it can be applied by the consideration what happened to the life in every day such as religion, politics, economics, and society, that having affected to mind and body, and make it weak. It is the cause of greed, anger, and delusion. The penalty of lack of patience can make suffering to oneself and others such as angry one can hurt the other because of without patience. When you can cultivate Khanti perfection, then you will get the six advantages of Khanti, e.g., 1) to be a strong person, dare face on the problems, 2) to be a good manner person, not be anger, 3) to endure for development person to be a wise, to be seductive one, 5) the patience is the tool for cutting down of the causes of evil, 6) the patience helps people who practice to attain enlightenment quickly as appearing in the Khanti perfection in the Jataka of Bodhisattva, one who wish to be a Buddhahood in the future. The Bodhisattva’s patience is the individual virtue in living for benefit in both the present and future, and for the highest benefit of life respectively for self-development in Buddhism as the easy thing to be the difficulty thing as the patience. Person has used common Khanti for living in the worldly, when having developed himself, he has depended on the patience as well-being, to be the base for moral development in higher levels, in addition to his self-interest, and it also is benefit of others. One who knows how to restrain one’s own mind, not violent other, but he will do benefit to others, so it makes him and society happy.

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