Anijiang, Meiliwati (2024) Comparing Tourists’ Spiritual Experience Inside and Outside of Jokhang Temple in Tibet. Master thesis, Cultural Geography - Tourism Geography and Planning (TGP).
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Abstract
There is a relative lack of research on the spiritual experience of secular tourists in Tibetan Buddhist heritage sites and the impact of spatial environment on spiritual experience. Taking Jokhang Temple as an example, this research uses the adapted code book of Schmidt et al. (2023) to analyze 697 international tourists' reviews on Tripadvisor and compare tourists’ spiritual experience inside and outside of Jokhang Temple. Through content analysis, the research findings verify the findings of Schmidt et al. (2023), that is, the physical environment of the sacred sites plays an important role in the process of tourists’ spiritual experience. This research also found that inside the temple, international tourists generated spiritual experiences of education and culture research by linking the physical environment with historical narratives. Outside the temple, international tourists generated spiritual experiences of self-growth and reflection through the social characteristics of the spatial environment, rather than the physical characteristics. And by observing religious rituals, generated spiritual experience of relaxation and meditation both inside and outside the Temple. Therefore, the managers of the Jokhang Temple should not only carefully preserves the historical narrative of the material environment inside, but also maintain the ritual space both inside and outside of the temple, to support the experience of tourists.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Name supervisor: | Groote, P.D. and Schmidt, J.B.I. |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jul 2024 12:09 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jul 2024 12:09 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/530 |
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