The three monks of the Jogye order — South Korea's largest Buddhist sect, with around 12 million followers — looked on with placid smiles. So began the third edition of “Naneun Jeollo ...

[PARK SANG-MOON] Yangyang, GANGWON — Monks have become matchmakers and a Buddhist temple has turned into a religiously blessed date place in Korea. In the country with the world's lowest ...

SEOUL--A South Korean deejay dressed as a Buddhist monk bounced up and down on stage while playing electronic music and shouting: “This too shall pass!” The performance brought cheers from a ...

The decline is part of a broader trend of secularization in South Korea. A Gallup Korea survey shows that the proportion of ...

I think that's one of the misconceptions, that since you're the one giving advice, you know everything. But knowing and practicing, they are two different things,’ Haemin Sunim, the celebrity monk and ...

The Korean Cultural Center in Thailand provided Korean temple food cooking by Jeongkwan to 111 Thai monks at Wat Arun, most famous temple in Thailand on 3rd October at 10 AM. Jung Kwan, a Korean ...

SWAT: Junsei Terasawa, a prominent Buddhist monk from Japan ... said that Buddhism reached Japan in the 6th century CE via Korea and China, carrying with it the artistic and spiritual traditions ...

Buddhist monks belonging to Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Nepal, South Korea and Sri Lanka, who are in Islamabad to participate in the International Gandhara Symposium visited Taxila Museum and ...