This thesis is of three objectives: (1) to study  the concept of  the  politic  and  the  administration  in the Buddhist Scriptures, (2)to study  the  pattern  and  the  method  of  the  administration  in  the  state  bureaucratic  system, and  (3) to  study  the  method  of  application  of  the  administration  of  the  Thai  society.  From  the  research,  it  is  found  that  the  politics  and administration  means  “to  rule  and  take  care  of  the  state  or  the  country  by  their  own  sovereignty, including  taking  good  care  of  the  people."

There are three contexts to be divided under this research: (1) The context of the politics, (2) The context of the societies, and (3) The context of the economics. In the context of the politics, there are the meaning of the state, the origin and the evolution of the state, the relationship in the state, the conflict and the war between the states, the power in administration and the three types of sovereignties and the ruler. There is a structure of the societies of the warrior, the ordained people, and the ordinary people. Finally, it became the system of castes with the king as the ruler. In economically, in the Buddhist time was cooperation with livestock and cultivation.

The Doctrinal principles used in administration were suitable at that time, such as, the Dasabidhasadhammas, Devadasacakkavattivattas, Catusangahavatthus, Catu-aggatis, all of which were used for the leaders. Moreover, the Doctrinal principal was used simultaneously by the executive people and the general peoples, such as Satta-suppurisadhammas, Chadisas and Chacarittas. The pattern of the administration in the Buddhist Scriptures is divided into two types: (1) The pattern of Absolute Monarchy, and (2) The pattern of Samaggidhamma. These two patterns are studied into three aspects: (1) The meaning, (2) The sovereignty, and (3) The principle of administration. The Absolute Monarchy was the pattern used to rule Thai society in the past history. There are four main states in the Buddhist time: the Magadhs state, Kosola state, the Vansa state and the Avanti state. At present, the administration in the form of Sammaggidhamma is called Democracy.

The method of the state administration in the Buddhist Scriptures has two types: (1) The one that’s connected to the Royal retinues and (2) The one that is connected to the ordinary people (who are not the courtiers) which has the householders’ part and the monks’ part. This paper studied these two method in four aspects: (1) The meaning, (2) The ranking or the administration’s reincarnation, (3) The role and duty and 4) The virtue in the Buddhist Scriptures.

Applying the pattern of the state administration to the present society, it has the examples like the emphasizing in importance of the Buddhist monks, the application of the Doctrinal Principals of Samaggidhamma in the Vajji state to the politics and administration in Democracy in which the king is the head of state under the constitution.

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