The Influence Of Buddhism On The Process Of Political Democratization In Thailand

Thailand is a buddhism country. Buddhism occupies an important position in Thai culture,also has a profound impact to the thai economy and politic for a lon g time.With the demand of the politic,Thai buddhism groups are gradually incorpo rated into the national administrative system, the country achieves ruling directly t hrough the Buddhism.Buddhism is directly involved in the country's political life.There have advantages and disadvantages for political democratization with the eff ect of buddhism.Positively, the concept of “all living things equality” of buddhism is beneficial for people to understand and accept the concept of democracy.The "fatalism" and other concepts in Buddhism is conducive to the stability of the societ y.Buddhism also gives legitimacy, which ensure the stability of the politics to som e certain extent.At the same time,the democratic political development need the nat ional integrated function of buddhism.Economically,buddhism also promotes the d evelopment of the economy,which meets the need of the political democratization development. Buddhism, of course, in some ways is a negative, Buddhism gives the legitimacy of power at the same time, it is also natural to authoritarian political escort, and authoritarian politics is a major obstacle to democracy,Like the Buddhist notion such as "karma" reduce people's enthusiasm for politics, reduces the people's political participation, which is not conducive to the development of democracy.In this paper, democratization under the influence of Buddhism in Thailand is the main research object, The history and present situation of Buddhism in Thailand and the status of its democratization, the course of the development of democratic politics and the role of Buddhism in democratization, democratic development trend, All of these will be described in detail in this paper with the research methods of historical research methods and data analysis methods.