Mahājāti preaching: the tradition that would be only in remembrance

Abstract

The objective of the article entitled “Mahājāti preaching: the tradition that would be only in remembrance” is to study the information, importance and also the ceremonies connected on this Mahājāti or Vessantarajataka preaching. The results of the study found that the Mahājāti preaching is the expression of examples on the absolute Danaparamita (perfection of giving). In case of the ceremony on Mahājāti preaching, it had been changed because of the situations and times. There are two causes that let this ceremony to be perished; 1. The Buddhists do not totally understand the subject matters of Mahājāti preaching. They thought the listening to the preaching is to get only merit. 2. Monks who has taken a preaching lack of experience in training as the former seniors practiced. It is due to the difference of cadences in each chapters, it could not be used in the same cadences. From these two above reasons, the Mahājāti preaching and the ceremony on this is going to be perished or would be only in our remembers.