| Surak-san Do-an-sa as Home-Base of the "Top-108 Mountain-Temples" |
| Doan-sa Main Page Doan-sa's Sanshin-dan Cliff-altar Back to Surak-san Index Page Songam-sa San-shin CONTENTS PAGE Sacred Mountains Index Page |
| Doan-sa's longtime Abbott Seonmok Hyeja conducts plenty of publicity on his conception of Korea having 108 great sansa [mountain-temples] as pilgrimage-destinations, and leading sacred journeys to them, including operating a large website on it: www.108sansa.com |
The Abbot of Do-an-sa since 1976 is Master Seonmuk Hyeja 선묵 혜자 스님, famous as
a leader of Devotional and Community-Service Buddhism in Korea, and forging global
Buddhist connections, leading pilgrimages. Seonmuk 禪默 is his Dharma-appellation,
while Hyeja 慧慈 is his monastic name. He took refuge as a Buddhist monk when he
was only 14 years old by becoming a disciple of the great master-monk Cheongdam of
Samgak-san Doseon-sa, who was the primary modernizer of Korean Buddhism after
the Korean War through the 1960s. Seonmuk Hyeja served as Master Cheongdam's
personal attendant until his passing into nirvana in 1971. After that, he finished his PhD
program in Temple Management at Dongguk Buddhist University, and then served as
an officer of the Jogye Order and chairman of several educational and social-activist
organizations such as the Buddhism Newspaper, the Korean Literature Peace Forum
and the Buddhist Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice. He reconstructed Doan-sa
by 1976 and became its Abbot. He launched the 108 Mountain Monasteries Pilgrimage
Program in 2013, aspiring to unite the Jogye Buddhist laypersons and monks nationwide,
appreciate the diversity of Korea's temples, and connect them with global Buddhism.
These photos posted on Doan-sa's vast porch show his myriad international activities.
a leader of Devotional and Community-Service Buddhism in Korea, and forging global
Buddhist connections, leading pilgrimages. Seonmuk 禪默 is his Dharma-appellation,
while Hyeja 慧慈 is his monastic name. He took refuge as a Buddhist monk when he
was only 14 years old by becoming a disciple of the great master-monk Cheongdam of
Samgak-san Doseon-sa, who was the primary modernizer of Korean Buddhism after
the Korean War through the 1960s. Seonmuk Hyeja served as Master Cheongdam's
personal attendant until his passing into nirvana in 1971. After that, he finished his PhD
program in Temple Management at Dongguk Buddhist University, and then served as
an officer of the Jogye Order and chairman of several educational and social-activist
organizations such as the Buddhism Newspaper, the Korean Literature Peace Forum
and the Buddhist Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice. He reconstructed Doan-sa
by 1976 and became its Abbot. He launched the 108 Mountain Monasteries Pilgrimage
Program in 2013, aspiring to unite the Jogye Buddhist laypersons and monks nationwide,
appreciate the diversity of Korea's temples, and connect them with global Buddhism.
These photos posted on Doan-sa's vast porch show his myriad international activities.
| These photos posted on Doan-sa's vast porch show Master Seonmuk Hyeja's 108 Mountain Monasteries Pilgrimages that started in 2013: |
