Meditation Night in Seoul
Oct 19 (Wed): 7:30pm~
“Meditation is a powerful technique for restoring your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance. Ultimately, meditation will help you unfold your inherent wisdom, enabling you to end suffering and attain enlightenment. And on a more basic level, you will develop greater focus and concentration, which will have an immediate and practical application to your life.”
You are invited!
Come to meditate at GwangRyunSa. GwangRyunSa(광륜사, 光輪寺) is a Korean traditional temple located in the entrance of DoBongSan hiking trail. This is an open event for everyone regardless your race, religion, age. This temple has pure energy, very appropriate for your meditation practice. You will be greatly benefit from practicing meditation at this temple! This temple is a real hidden gem to practice meditation and develop concentration power.
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This is a special night for you to practice sitting meditation and push yourself! If you are new to meditation, please text us for intro class.
Meditation night at GwangRyunSa in Seoul
Wed. October 19 (7:30pm~)
Open to everyone. Free event.
Please text to 010-9262-8441 for more information.
Address: 401 Dobong 1(il)-dong, Dobong-gu, Seoul
GwangRyunSa
GwangRyunSa Temple
GwangRyunSa was built back in 673 by Great Master Uisang(의상義湘 대사). When it was established, it was named as ManJangSa (만장사, 萬丈寺). This temple used to be major temples of DoBongSan Mountain along with two other temples, Cheonchuksa (천축사) and YoungGukSa (영국사). In the mid JoSeon Dynasty, GwangRyunSa has declined and the most part of temple has been destroyed during the Japanese invasions of Korea (임진왜란, 1592–1598). Toward the late JoSeon Dynasty, the country's queen (신정 왕후 [1808~1890]) renovated the temple and lived during her late years after her father passed away. After that, Heungseon Daewongun(흥선대원군) also spent his leisure time during Gojong emperor and worked from there. Since 1970, a laywoman renovated and expanded this temple. In 2002, Mr. Im and Ms. Park supported Great Master CheongHwa to renovate this temple and renamed it to its current name, GwangRyunSa and reopened.
Venerable Abbot MyeongWon Sunim
Instructor (meditation) for this event: HyunAn sunim
Shakya XianAn (HyunAn Sunim)
HyunAn Sunim started practicing Chan meditation under Master YongHua in 2012. As an enterprenuer at the time, practicing Chan meditation improved her business and personal life tremandeously. It became her wish to share the benefits with others. She then founded “Chan in the Park” in 2015 to start teaching Chan Meditaiton and helping others around the world. She became a Buddhist Nun later to dedicate her life to Mahayana Buddhism. Per her Master's instruciton, she returned to Korea and started teaching Chan meditation at various Korean temples. She published “Going to Jeweled Mountain, Return with emtpy hands” sharing stories of Chan meditators in Korean. Currently she is now a resident nun at Jeweled Conch Seon Center (Bundang, Korea).
