This thesis entitled “A Study on the Ways of Attendance for the Patient Monks in Buddhism” has three objectives: 1) to study principles and methods in the attendance of a sick monk in Buddhism, 2) to study the exemplary attendance of a sick monk in Buddhism, and 3) to propose the guidelines in the attendance of a sick monk in Buddhism. This is a qualitative research done by studying documentaries and interview of five scholars.

    In the research, it was clearly found that in Buddhism seven guidelines in the attendance of a sick monk are recommended by the Buddha as follows:
1) Upajjhãyavatta, 2) Saddhivihãrikavatta, 3) Ãcariyavatta, 4) Antevãsikavatta, 5) a Buddhist monk who lives with a preceptor, 6) a Buddhist monk who lives with the same teacher, and 7) Buddhist Sanghas who live in the temple should have the attendance of a sick monk till gaining the recovery. As regards the methods in the attendance of a sick monk in Buddhism, two kinds of them are found that: 1) the method in the attendance of a sick monk in the Buddha’s time, and 2) the methods in the attendance of a sick monk in the present. Those methods should be carried out by a Buddhist monk who possesses five types of quality as follows: 1) he should be able to make medicine, 2) he should be able to know what is suitable and what is not suitable for a sick monk, 3) he should have loving kindness, 4) he should be indifference in the impurity, and 5) he should be able to inform the sick monk. With respect to Dhamma being applied in order to alleviate such sickness, it showed that the teaching in Gilãnasutta is usable; it is assigned to empower a sick monk’s mindset to cope with such suffering, threefold training is also helpful in bringing about the non-negligence, Bojjanํgasutta is suitable to be applied in inculcating himself with the illness and diseases where he can find the way leading to the complete cure of such pain.

    As far as the research is concerned, two alternative ways are recommended that: 1) the guideline in the attendance of a sick monk in the Buddha’s time, and 2) the guideline in the attendance of a sick monk being done through body and mind.