Myth of Five Buddhas: The Strategies of Cultural Resource Management of Wiang Kaa Long Morality Development Center

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the content and Buddhist philosophy in the Myth of Five Buddhas and to study the strategies of cultural resource management of The Myth of Five Buddhas of the Wiang-kaa-long Morality
Development Center.

Its main content that can be classified into 4 characteristics: 1) The significance of Five Buddhas in this Pattara Kappa, 2) The core of Buddhaîs teaching, 3) The importance of perpetuation Buddhism, 4) The character of ideal society in the Era of Phra Si-a-ri-ya. Additionally, the strategies to manage the cultural resource of The Myth of Five Buddhas, are as follows, 1) The reproduction and the reinvention of the legend both in terms of the format and the content, 2) The revision of Wiang-ka-long history and its preservation as the sacred place which houses the mythical material and also as the living cultural learning resource center, 3) The creation of the variety of innovations to transmit the myth, 4) The emphasis on meaning communication in the dimensions of sacredness, emotions and religious idealism, and 5) The promotion of the learning of Buddhaîs doctrines includes the principles that follows: Pariyatti, Patipatti and Pativeda in order to pacify the society according to the objectives of the original myth.