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To the Pure Land and Back
Like the oxherding pictures used in Zen, Shin Buddhism’s seven phases of the drowning sailor illustrate the path to enlightenment.
Like the oxherding pictures used in Zen, Shin Buddhism’s seven phases of the drowning sailor illustrate the path to enlightenment.
Things have been tense on the Korean Peninsula lately, with crowds in Seoul today calling for revenge against the north for the sinking of the Cheonan, a South Korean naval vessel. But readers of the Korean Times awoke this morning to the 10 Oxherding Pictures, the classic Zen (in Korean, Soen) series that depicts the […]
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