| My Lecture on the Sanshin Traditions of the Gangneung Dano-je Festival for the Kyung Hee Graduate School of Peace Studies Special Summer Program, June 2008 in Gangneung City, on the East Coast |
About 30 students and four professors attended this trip (sponsored by Gangneung City's Tourism
Department). I visited the Gulsan-sa Temple Site of 9th-Cen Zen-Master Beomil-guksa that
morning. That afternoon i led them on an afternoon's tour of the San-shin and Guksa-Seonghwang
Shrines 700-m up on the Daegwan-ryeong {Taegwallyeong} Pass (where it was totally socked-in with
dense fog, making a mystical scene), then to the "Female Guksa-Seonghwang San-shin" Shrine
tucked
in a downtown neighborhood.
Department). I visited the Gulsan-sa Temple Site of 9th-Cen Zen-Master Beomil-guksa that
morning. That afternoon i led them on an afternoon's tour of the San-shin and Guksa-Seonghwang
Shrines 700-m up on the Daegwan-ryeong {Taegwallyeong} Pass (where it was totally socked-in with
dense fog, making a mystical scene), then to the "Female Guksa-Seonghwang San-shin" Shrine
tucked
in a downtown neighborhood.
That evening i gave a 2-hour Lecture putting it all together, about the complex San-
shin traditions that are still the most important factors involved in the Gangneung
Dano-je Festival, Korea's largest and most-successful such annual event.
shin traditions that are still the most important factors involved in the Gangneung
Dano-je Festival, Korea's largest and most-successful such annual event.
| And as a finale we toured Gangneung's most famous attraction Ojeuk-heon (Black Bamboo Mansion/Shrine, the birthplace of Neo-Confician philosopher Yulgok Yi I) -- that was all we had time for. |
