A Case Study on Dharmarajika Buddhist Monastery, Dhaka

Abstract

Religious tourism has become very popular arena nowadays. Visitors travel to religious places for worship, meditation, prayer and in search of inner tranquility. This paper highlighted the factors that motivate the travelers to visit Dharmarajika Buddhist Monastery. The study highlighted the background of the monastery and its contribution for the Buddhist community as well as for Bangladeshis. In this paper, two, sections have been discussed focusing on demographic profile of the respondents and purposes of the visitors to travel Dharmarajika Buddhist Monastery. In the demographic part age, gender, marital status, profession and income of respondents have been taken into consideration. On the other hand; visitation information, source of information about the Monastery, companion during visit and motives to visit the Monastery have been collected from the respondents. The present study also highlighted some of the guidelines for further improvement of the Monastery for greater interest of Bangladesh.

Keywords: Religious tourism, Buddhist, visitor, Monastery, place, Bangladesh