PARADIGMA KAUM PURITAN DALAM PEMBENTUKAN KEYAKINAN BERAGAMA INTERN SEKTE/MAZHAB BUDDHA DI INDONESIA

Abstract

The emergence of puritan religious groups with a strong character, it will be forced to reexplore
the relationship between religion and pluralism. The group will remain ignorant of its
doctrines and opinions and assume that with this belief they will claim the most correct. Puritan
groups have variations in names and movements but their diversity of character has the same lines and
corridors. Puritan groups in Buddhism arise in large sects or sects in Indonesia such as the puritan
groups of the Indonesian Theravada Buddhist Council, Maitreya groups, Mahayana groups, Tri
dharma Indonesia, and others.
In this study using a qualitative approach (quality research) which reveals a phenomenon to
gain understanding with data in the form of qualitative data. This research is to find out the paradigm
of Buddhist puritans in a plural society that is by openly interviewing schools of Buddhism. In
qualitative research the source of data comes directly from what is experienced by researchers as the
main instrument, data embodied in words or images, pay more attention to process rather than results,
in analyzing data more likely to use inductive methods.
The results obtained show that there are different paradigms in Buddhism regarding the
emergence of puritans. The different paradigm followed by listening to responses from religious leaders
and youth in the school of Buddhism. After writing in this research, hopefully it will benefit to young
people, religious leaders, Buddhist communities and other communities in general.