The purpose of this thesis is to critically analyze Phra Mongkol-Thepmuni’s Buddha Dhamma propagation in relation to Lord Buddha’s. It first reviews Lord Buddha’s Dhamma propagation of Dhamma by way of meditation teaching as represented in the Pali Conon, and then analyzes Phra Mongkol-Thepmuni’s against this ideal, examining similaritees and differences. The study found that Phra Mongkol-Thepmuni taught directly in accordance with the Buddha’s Dhamma-Vinaya. His teaching was Right View (Sammā-ditthi), not Wrong View (Miccā-ditthi) or perversion. Phra Mongkol-Thepmmuni only asapted the Buddha’s Dhamma propagation to the practical needs and realities of the twentieth century, amidst World Wars I and II.

          His teachings reunited the academic (pariyatti) and meditation (paţipatti) components of Buddhism, which had been developing on separate tracks (university vs. forest), and renewed the faith and efforts necessary to achieve Nibbanā (paţivedha). He taught an integrated meditation technique, starting with Samatha (concentration), followed by Vipassanā (insight). He said “To stop is to succeed,” both in meditation and in daily life (to avoid creating negative karma/kamma). Stopping the mind still (at the center of the body) permits climbing a ladder of increasingly pure spiritual bodies and mental states from the mundane through celestial and NobleState (Dhammakāya) to Nibbāna. This was his rediscovery of the Dhammakāya meditation technique which had been

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