DVARAVATI CIVILIZATION FOOTPRINTS, ITS MAXIMUS CREEDS AND CULTURES IN SIAM SUVARNBHUMI, ANCIENT THAILAND

Abstract

The work on “Dvaravati Footprints, its Maximus Cultures and Creeds in Siam Suvarnbhumi (Ancient Thailand)” was to trace Dvaravati footprints, its creeds and cultures. The author found that Dvaravati Civilization of Nakhon Pathom, Ratchaburi and Kanchanaburi traded with India and Mediterranean countries since 3^rd Buddhist Century (BE 236). The testimonial vacuum was likely lost for 400 years. It is certain that the Mons in Myanmar have been two routes migrated from Pyu-speaking Tibet and Yangtze Kiang Basin, China and they have nine times evacuated to avoid genocide of the Burmese to Siam (current Thailand) during [CE.1539-1814]. However, Diasporas always felt nostalgia and stresses on virtual culture and cultural capital. The former pertained the ever-changing set of beliefs, values, behaviors, and performances such as the Jews, the Koreans, the Irish, the Jamaicans, the Syrians, the Bangladeshis, the Rohinyas, and the Mons and so on. The latter was the nostalgia of endowment that each diaspora inherited as a member of a particular ethnic group or sub-group. Though they also carried their traditional creeds of animism, Theravada Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism and Hinduism. Their rich cultures lost during before the third Century or around 400 years or during the arrival of Their Most Venerables Sona Thera and Uttara Thera on the Buddhist Proselytization Mission in Suvarnbhumi around Nakhon Chai Si and Nakhon Pathom in BE 236 should be revived. What needs to pursue were first the nostalgia and stresses on the virtual culture and cultural capital of the Mon Diasporas should be investigated to prevent and to alleviate their deep negative impacts, and second, the lost Dvaravati rich creeds and cultures should be unearthed to revive the root of the Siamese (current Thais) backgrounds.