The life and thoughts of ancient monks… Launch of portal service containing the essence of Korean Buddhism
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The Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism and the Dongguk University Buddhist Academy announced on the 16th that they have established and launched the ‘Korean Buddhist Culture Portal’, an information platform to promote the heritage of Korean Buddhism.
Monk Woo Bong, head of the planning department of the Jogye Order, held a meeting at the Korean Buddhist History and Culture Memorial Hall in Jongno-gu, Seoul on this day and spoke about the project to build a ‘Korean Buddhist Culture Portal’, saying, “Even monks have to go out of their way to access materials related to Buddhism, even in the modernized world and the information world. “There was a lot of inconvenience,” he said. “Access to Buddhist information has improved, and it has become an opportunity for many people to easily and more deeply build knowledge about Buddhist knowledge and culture.”
Korean Buddhist Culture Portal screen. Provided by Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism
He continued, “With the Korean Buddhist culture platform being opened to the public and available to everyone, the foundation for the globalization and popularization of Korean traditional Buddhism has been laid,” adding, “The first phase of the project is currently underway for five years from 2022 to 2026. “I hope that it will become Korea’s representative cultural platform by integrating various existing research results and contents,” he said.
The Korean Buddhist Culture Portal provides Buddhist cultural heritage with over 6,000 items in 9 corners: Korean Buddhist registered heritage, Buddhist folk rituals, traditional practices, digital temples, monk archives, recorded culture, Buddhist books in various regions, audio scriptures, and Buddhist terminology. Provides relevant information.
The Korean Buddhism Registered Heritage Corner introduces seven Buddhist cultural heritage sites registered as UNESCO World Heritage sites, one each year, and provides related archives.
So far, we have dealt with Jikji and Yeondeunghoe, and are suggesting ‘Gwaebul, Records of Korean Buddhist Ritual’ and ‘Suryukjae and Yesujae, Re-Rites of Korean Buddhism’ as heritage worthy of being listed as a World Heritage Site in the future. Buddhist folk rituals such as Suryukjae, Yesujae, Uranjeoljeol, and a day in the temple were introduced. In the traditional practice corner, you can take a look at the traditional practice methods of Korean Buddhism, including Ganhwa Seon.
In addition, materials such as the history of major temples, the lives and thoughts of high monks, representative texts of Korean Buddhism including the Buddhist Prajna Paramita Multi-Heart Sutra, English publications related to Korean Buddhism, audio scriptures, and explanations of Buddhist terms. provided.
In addition to providing information in the form of a menu, the Korean Buddhist Culture Portal also displays content based on geographic information, such as displaying Buddhist facilities and cultural assets across the country on a map and designing it to navigate to pages with related information.
Jinwoo, general secretary of the Jogye Order, explained that the Korean Buddhist Culture Portal is “content that encompasses the essence of Korean Buddhism and can be easily introduced to the public.”
Senior Reporter Lee Kang-eun [email protected]
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