GJESTEFORELESNING - KOREANSK ZEN BUDDHISME. …
GJESTEFORELESNING - KOREANSK ZEN BUDDHISME. Den 9. april, Kl. 14.15-16.00, s.r. 3 PAM
VEN. HYUN GAK sunim (Hwagyesa Temple, Seoul, South Korea) "Korean Zen Buddhism: A Practitoner's View"
Tid: den 9. april 2008, 14:15 - 16:00.
Sted: seminarrom 3, den 1. etg., P.A. Munchs hus, Niels Henrik Abels vei 36.
Sammendrag: The lecturer will discuss with the students the life and activities of a Korean Zen (Sǒn) Buddhist monk, including his/her daily schedule and the nature of his/her religious enquiries. As a student of Zen with more than 20 years of experience (16 years as a monk), the lecturer will be able to discuss the traditional three-month intensive meditation retreats which are held in summer and winter. There will also be a discussion about why Zen and Buddhism, and Zen/Buddhism, are so unique in their abilities to combine with the practices of other religions and spiritualities. There will be time for questions and answers.
Venerable Hyun Gak: is an American-born Zen monk and teacher. He received inka, certifying his enlightenment, in August 2001 by Zen Master Seung Sahn, the 78th Patriarch in a lineage supposedly stretching back to Shakyamuni Buddha. He was appointed by Zen Master Seung Sahn to be the Head Teacher of the Zen hall at 500 year-old Hwa Gye Sah Temple in the Sam Gak Sahn Mountain range, outside Seoul, South Korea, and served there until 2007.He has compiled and edited several of Zen Master Seung Sahn's books, including The Whole World is a Single Flower (Tuttle, 1992), The Compass of Zen (Shambhala Publications, 1997), Only Don't Know (Shambhala, revised 1999), and, most recently, Wanting Enlightenment is a Big Mistake (Shambhala, 2006). Most recently, he translated the 500 year-old classic of Zen Master So Sahn, The Mirror of Zen (Shambhala, 2006), into English for the first time. He is also the author of the Korean bestseller, From Harvard to Hwa Gye Sah Temple. To date, it has sold over 1,000,000 copies, and translations are planned for Chinese and Japanese. It is a very personal, at times very humorous tale of his life in America, his fundamental questions about the nature of human existence haunting him from childhood through years of Catholic school education, through schooling in philosophy and literature at Yale and Harvard, to his becoming a monk under one of the leading Zen teachers of our time. The book is widely credited with leading a revival in interest in Korean Buddhism, especially among youth.