DECISION OF BUDHISTS TO MERIT-MAKING AT WAT MANGKON KAMALAWAT (LENG NEI YI), BANGKOK

Abstract

This Article aimed 1) to study the behavior of making merit and pay respect to monks at Wat Mangkon Kamalawat (Leng Nei Yi) and 2) to compare personal factors of uddhists with the decision to make merit and pay respect to monks at Wat Mangkon Kamalawat. (Leng Nei Yi). The research model is quantitative research. The sample group was There were 384 buddhists in Bangkok who had come to make merit at Wat Mangkon Kamalawat using the tables of Krejcie & Morgan. The research instruments were questionnaires, analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test and One-way ANOVA. The results of this research showed that 1) most of the )buddhists had traveled to make merit at Wat Mangkon Kamalawat. (Leng Nei Yi), Bangkok, previously 2 times to pay homage to sacred travel to make merit with family/relatives/lovers by planning your own trip, It takes about 1 – 2 hours to make merit and pay respect to monks, costs about 1,001 – 1,500 baht and to make merit and pay respect to monks 1,501 – 2,000 baht. And 2) The decision to make merit and pay respect to Buddhist monks at Wat Mangkon Kamalawat (Leng Nei Yi) as a whole is at a high level. By the popularity of the temple’s reputation with the highest mean, followed by the environment of temple, beliefs respectively and gender, age, level of education study and different occupations, the decision to make merit and pay respect to buddhist monks at Wat Mangkon Kamalawat is not different. But different median income, the decision to make merit and pay respect to monks were significantly different at 0.05 level. The findings from this research Wat Mangkon Kamalawat (Leng Nei Yi) and other temples as a guideline to promote the activities of making merit in accordance with the interests of ) buddhists and set guidelines for the development of temple management in various fields.