A Buddha’s Birthday celebration
In the above photo, Cardinal Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, right, Roman Catholic archbishop of Seoul, smiles at a young Buddhist monk playing at Myeongdong Catholic Cathedral in downtown Seoul, May 9.
A group of Children monks visited the cathedral to view a documentary entitled, “A Chair of Venerable Beopjeong,” on the late Buddhist leader Venerable Beopjeong. The Catholic Church held a preview of the film one day before Buddha’s Birthday to express religious love and harmony.
In the photo below, young boys with shaved heads wear 3D glasses as they watch 3D TV monitors at the SK Telecom Ubiquitous Museum in Seoul.
The children entered the Jogye Temple, the main temple of Korean Buddhism’s Jogye Order, to experience a monk’s life in the short term to celebrate Buddha’s Birthday, which falls on May 10, the eighth day of April by the lunar calendar.
(Photo by Kim Jung-hyo and Lee Jung-a)
Labels: buddhism, Jogye Order
posted by Wonji Dharma at
May 09, 2011
5 Comments:
Such little chongsams!
Shame for Catholics! They've not only drifted away from the Bible, but also openly accept the unbiblial teachings and religions!
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Woah... We Catholics are not drifting away, we are evolving... If you knew anything about Buddhism, you would know that Jesus Christ taught the same principles, just in another way. Buddhism is a philosophy, Catholism is a Religion!
Honestly, as a Catholic, I believe that ALL religions are true and those followers all go to the same place. They each teach love, compassion and doing good deads... In fact, I use Buddhist Meditation to calm my mind, and it has truly been beneficial!
You must work for salvation, not be given it freely! Follow Jesus by example, not Martin Luther.
Buddhism is a religion. Calling it a philosophy is a gross over-simplification of Buddhism. I could just as easily say that Catholicism, with all its theological sophistry and apologetic word-salad is a philosophy. You, madame, are dangerously misinformed.
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