ABSTRACT
The study aims to analyze the use of Muaro Jambi Temple for religious activities and religious education for Buddhists. Qualitative approaches are explanatory through intrinsic case study strategies used to research goals. Considering the representation of many involved Buddhist informants and possessing information on the use of the Muaro Jambi Temple is the reason for determining the data source using purposive sampling techniques. In contrast, snowball samplings are used to select informants in a community network and teachers of Buddhist education. Researchers, as human instruments, collect data through interviews, documentation, and observations, whereas credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability are the validity techniques used. The data analysis used is a spiral technique popularized by Creswell, which, in its analysis and interpretation, researchers use the functional theory of religion as well as concepts of social and cultural sciences. The research results showed the existence of values and knowledge of the continuity and function of the Muaro Jambi Temple, conceived by the Buddhists in Jambi as the residence of the Kingdom of Sriwijaya, with its functions related to religious activities and education of Buddhism. Thus, the action impacts the formation of cultural patterns in the social system. Retreats, commemorations and rituals in commemorating the Waisak and Asadha holidays, as well as the short ritual program on the 1st and 15th months of Imlek, are representations of people’s actions in the religious aspect. At the same time, education in the general context and education of Buddhism and Buddhist religion are educational actions. Religious actions and educational actions by Buddhists have an impact on social identity and religious identity for Buddhists, improving the economy of local communities, as well as impacts on relations between Buddhists in Jambi City and its surroundings, Buddhists and the government, and with local communities.