외국인 대학생의 템플스테이 경험에 대한 탐색적 연구:

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine in depth the Temple stay experience at a Korean temple for foreign university students participating in Temple stay at Woljeongsa Temple in Odaesan. The research questions for this are as follows. First, what did you experience in Temple stay? Second, what did you gain from the Temple stay experience? Third, how will you use the Temple stay experience in your daily life? The subjects of this study were 27 foreign university students attending Temple stay at a university in B city, Gyeonggi-do, and data were collected using a written questionnaire in July 2022. The collected results were analyzed with the Consensual Qualitative Research-Modified (CQR-M). As a result of the study, 10 categories and 24 subcategories were derived in 3 areas: Temple stay experience, what was gained from Temple stay experience, and how to use the Temple stay experience in daily life. First, in the field of Temple stay experience, four categories were derived: Buddhist experience, mental spa experience, beautiful natural environment, and warm encounter experience. Second, in the area of what was gained from the Temple stay experience, four categories were derived: curiosity about Buddhism, time to see myself, and learning the true meaning of Buddhism. Third, in the area of the daily life application of the Temple stay experience, three categories were derived: storage in long-term memory, use as a strategy to cope with daily stress, and research on Buddhism and Buddhist meditation. The above results have been discussed, and the results of this study are expected to contribute to providing basic data for foreign university students Temple stay participants.