A Survey on the status of participants in the Diamond Sutra blessing prayer of Woljeongsa Temple in 2024

This factual survey study was conducted to investigate the experience of participating in the ‘Diamond Sutra prayer’ for participants in the ‘Diamond Sutra prayer’ conducted at Woljeongsa Temple and to use it for future program planning. The survey tool developed for the survey consisted of a total of 23 questions in five areas (personal information, general participation and prayer issuance, satisfaction, happiness, and others), and a total of 1,852 participants were surveyed four times in January, March, August, and October, and the survey was conducted by collecting them directly. As a result of the analysis, first, the participants’ origins were in the order of health, wish, good luck, wealth, enlightenment, family relations, Buddha’s words, academic progress, and paradise. Second, what the participants gained through prayer was health, Buddha’s words, enlightenment, wishes, good wishes, family relationships, wealth, and paradise. Third, the overall satisfaction of participants with participation in the court was 4.2 points on average (1.05 points for standard deviation). The regions with high satisfaction were in the order of metropolitan area, Chungcheong area, Gyeongsang area, Gangwon area, and Jeolla area. Fourth, satisfaction by age group appeared in the order of 20s, 40s, 10s, 50s, 30s, 60s and 70s, and 80s or older. Fifth, there was a positive correlation with participation satisfaction and happiness in the ‘Diamond Sutra prayer’, and among the sub-factors of happiness, there was a positive correlation with life satisfaction, positive emotion, and negative correlation with negative emotion, indicating a positive correlation with happiness. The results of this study are expected to provide practical information on participants in ‘Diamond Sutra prayer’, which is based on temples, and to provide basic data on factors to be considered when planning ‘Diamond Sutra prayer’ in the future.