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Subject -Buddhism & Economics Lecturer : Dr. Montra Leoseng

International Bachelor of art , 3rd year, Second Semester , Academic year 2013

Mahachularlongkorn University , Wang Noi, Ayutthaya, Thailand

Introduction

• Is there anything we can get free ..?• Perhaps, there is something we can get free but

for sure that we can not get everything in this world. So, what kind of things we can get free, how we can it. why we need free, where we can get it.

• Suppose, if “money make everything”, what money can’t make ..?

• So let me introduce what I have a thinking to share today…

Wikipedia is encyclopedia project operated by the Wikimedia Foundation(non-profit organization)

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• Wikipedia provides 279 languages.• Wikipedia is a non-profit organization.• Wikipedia one of the ten most popular

website on internets through out the world.

• Wikipedia is something special .• It is like a library or a public park.• It is like a temple for the mind.• A place everyone can go to think learn free.

Wikipedia provides

• Information • News• History• Social • Economic• Politics • Religions • Technology • Etc……

Wikipedia's sister projects

CommonsFree media repository

MediaWikiFree software development

Meta-WikiWikimedia project coordination

WikibooksFree textbooks and manuals

WikidataFree knowledge base

WikinewsFree-content news

WikiquoteCollection of quotations

WikisourceFree-content library

WikispeciesDirectory of species

WikiversityFree learning materials and activities

WikivoyageFree travel guide

WiktionaryDictionary and thesaurus

What Wikipedia say ..?

• Dear readers: • If Wikipedia is useful to you please take one

minute to keep it online and ad-free another year. • We have only 150 staff but serve 450 millions

users.• We survive on donations if everyone reading this

gave 100 baths so please help us forget fundraising and get back to Widipedia. Thanks..

• In Buddhist teaching …• what money can’t make or can’t buy..? • It is…… Morality .

• Wikipedia has offering the generally knowledge without any profit always to the world.

Conclusion • Of course, there is something free we can gain in this world that

may much valuable for all. • Money can’t make everything. • We are coming to the world to do something good but not to do

something bad. • Some people does to broke the society but some people rebuild. • Human is wonderful who can destroy the world and he can give

intelligent ideas to be peaceful the world.• Really peace can build even though who is non- Buddhist.• Buddha said: live until hundreds years without any benefit it is

selfish but live one days to does good to others who is better then.

• To do good , not to do bad that is Buddhist economic .•