The purposes of this research were; 1) to study the history and characteristics of Thai Yantra 2) to study the method of reading and interpreting the figure of Thai Yantra and 3) to study the Buddhist teachings as appeared in Thai Yantra by using the document research. This research was the qualitative research by collecting data from the field work, documents, books and researches as related . The researcher analyzes the whole data in accordance with the objectives and to report the results of research with the descriptive analysis.
The results of the research were that; 1) the study was found that the Yantra development of Thai Yantra was concurrent with the development of various periods. The inscriptions in the stone tablets were believed to be the original model of Yantra by believing that it was the memorandum of Buddhist teachings, The Yantra become to be clearly forms and to be recorded systematically in Thai books using Khom Alphabets during the Aythaya period. At the same time, the contemporary Kingdom such as Lanna, Lan Xang and Burma etc, it was found that the Yantra occurred in the adjacent period and to be recorded in Dhamma alphabets. This is compliance with the concept that the Yantra were used as a form of recording the Buddhist teaching. Later on, a belief developed that the Yantra were sacred in the feature of amulets 2) from studying the basic knowledge of reading and interpreting the Yantra it was found that Thai Yantra contain the systematical thinking such as the arrangement of alphabets in the form of poetic devices of poetry composition. The various forms of Yantra diagrams that are distinctively found to be popular forms of poetic devices, the arrangement of alphabets like the horse pieces in the chess and having the encryption to conceal the massage shows that the inventors of such Yantra are knowledgeable in a literature and the Pali language. These various forms were demonstration of wisdom and techniques in recording the religious teachings to make them more complex and creative and 3) by decoding the Yantra literally and symbolically, it was found that the Yantra were used to record a lot of religious teachings including the religious narratives and various Buddhist teachings composing of the diagrams of the primitive Tranquil Meditation and the Insight Meditation.
From the three research aspects, it demonstrates that the use of Yantra was a method of recording the Buddhist teaching in the fashion of ancient scholars who devised them with respecting Dhamma and the belief in the sacredness of Yantra was based on the faith in the power of Dhamma as well-expounded by the Lord Buddha. Therefore those with the negative prejudices who view the Yantra as a form of occultism, unreason of uneducated persons should reconsider this concept because to view the Yantra as the Brahmist occultism has been perpetuated without thoroughly study the subject. If we regard the Yantra with a misunderstanding of the reality, it will regrettably be destructive to the intellectual inherence of our ancestors.
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