Abstract: Ethnic Dai s Southern Buddhism art is composed of literature, architecture, sculpture, painting, folk crafts, music, dancing, and drama etc. which are full of outstanding folk and local features. This unique style and feature has close relationships with "dana". "Dana" is one of the "six perfections" of Buddhism referring to the religious practices of donating, offering, and bestowing to the "three jewels". These exercises have absorbed a lot of ethnic Dai s folk customs during the long-term of localiza...
