ABSTRACT
This research is of the purpose to study the concept of the matter of Sambhavesī in Theravāda Buddhism, to clearly study who the Sambhavesī is and from where he comes and to help the Buddhists to understand it rightly according to the Buddhist Scriptures.
From the research, it is found that the concept of Sambhavesī in Theravāda Buddhism is that Sambhavesī consists of Khandha and Āyatana all of which are generally called bodies and minds belonging to the human beings, the animals, the deities, Rupabrahma and Arupabrahma. The fact that one is born as a man, an animal or a deity is because of the power of action, both good one and bad one. The state of being or the process of being appear with the help of one another, and extinguishes with the cause and the factor. The Sambhavesīs can develop themselves to be away from the state of Sambhavesī with the development of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness all of which are the states of turning around and are the causes and the effects.
In Thai societies at the level of the villagers, it is said that the spirits, the ghosts and the monsters are the secreted worldly consciousness, but the Sambhavesīs are the wandering spirits
The academics are of the concepts that the consciousness (Viññāna) is of the duty to receive and know the temperaments or it thinks a about the different temperaments through the eyes, the ears, the nose, the tongue, the body and the brain.
This consciousness is of the duty to acknowledge the temperaments or to think about the different temperaments through the eyes, the ears, the nose, the tongue, the body and the brain.
This consciousness must work through the system of the nervous touch which can cause one to see and to hear etc. It does not cause one to fear the various forms such as the ghost, Asurakāya (The frightened ghost) and the hungry ghost (Peta) which were roaming in the world and caused us to be in trouble. In the matter of chanting the Paritta or Montra, there is a belief that after chanting, the spirit will protect oneself, the sons, the daughters and the nephews to be away from various dangers
So, to study about the Sambhavesī is useful for the Thai people who believe in Buddhism to build up the rightiousness in worshipping the six directions with the gratitude etc. possessed by the Thai people who believe in Sambhavesī wrongly. This point will be the minus effect to oneself and others both at present and in the futures. This fact is not in compliance with the Buddhist Teaching that Sambhavesī is not consciousness searching for the place to be reborn. Sambhavesī is the ordinary person and the Sekha person.
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