Name: Korean Temple Stay at Beomeosa Buddhist Temple (범어사) in Busan, South Korea
Uploaded: 2020-10-25T20:00:23.000Z
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good afternoon and good afternoon guys greetings from Busan South Korea

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actually just outside of Busan we are at Beomeosa temple (범어사) it is a big Buddhist

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temple here and we're actually going to be experiencing a temple stay in Korea

what's going to be awesome is we're going to be having dinner here and then

we're going to be staying overnight and also having breakfast it's a total

immersive experience I can't wait to check it out let's go inside

so the first thing we do at the temple is take off our shoes and then we're

gonna put on a uniform and our clothes right so David what's up what you're

doing just got my clothes yeah we gotta go change into them yeah this is where

the next 24 hours not 12 but the sliding doors just in front of us so that's

where we changed I'm looking good it feels great man it's such a comfortable

shirt fortunately it fit last thing to do is to change out of my shorts Welcome to the Beomeosa (범어사) Temple Stay Program

I am the supporting monk for the program takes about five years to become a monk

here in Korea and I am on my last year for the two days you guys are here we

have arranged different programs to kind of help you guys to let you guys

experience the Korean culture as well as the temple culture to go over the rules

that you have to know they're just basically common sense stuff not too

difficult so the first rule that we have is that in the temple you you have to be

quiet normally it's called Bugan and it means no speaking at all and this is

because for months we have these intensive training periods once in the

summer once in the winter it's a three-month period where the monks kind

of focus on their studies so right now the monks are busy doing their their

studies the second rule is please organize your shoes when you come in so

for this building for example if you look outside the door there's a wooden

floor the wooden floor is not for shoes so please don't come up on the wooden

floors with your shoes on but the center door has a nickname in

Korea we call it a Gong which translates to royal door or a Kings door and the

reason they call it that is because back in the past Korea had a king and the

king would have multiple wives and the wives would all try to have sons and

then they would have they would try to make their son become the next

okay and so in that during that process you know a lot of the princes of the

sons ended up killing each other so what a lot of the sons did the princess did

back then was in order to avoid that kind of bloodshed they would come to the

temple shake their head and become monks and so back then Dora there are a lot of

monks who were formerly princes only the monks who were princes who had royal

blood can enter an exit through the center door and then the other doors the

monks that would be using would be based on what their class was before they

became a monk so that's why we call it the royal doors so now today we don't

have classes we don't have princes today the doors that are used is decided upon

how long you've been a monk the center door the royal door is usually for the

head monk of this temple we want you guys to have a comfortable time the

program itself is designed so that you guys can kind of experience things in a

relaxed manner a lot of people seem to think that the temple is some kind of

very strict very solemn place but it really is not so you know you guys can

just relax just have fun so next I have to explain to you how to bow so we have

a certain way of bowing here first began we're not going to be stepping on the

fishes you're gonna have the cushion in front of you for the entire ceremony for

the entire evening ceremony and when you're doing any number of bows you're

always going to be in the hapjeong position so the hapjeong is basically

gonna put your hands together and then you're also going to put your feet

together as well and the reason why we do this is because this was actually

something that they did 2500 years ago when the Buddha was alive this was a

posture that showed respect to the monks the second purpose was that back then

this was a way of showing that they were unwilling to harm the other person it

was a way of showing friendliness so when you have your hands together you

can't hold a weapon right I'm gonna show you guys the first bow so

you're gonna go on your knees then you're gonna put your hands on the

cushion then your forehead flip your hands over you're gonna raise them up

just pull all the ears just below the ears then you're gonna put them back

down lay and stand off so we just had a meeting greet with the monk that is

gonna be with us during our entire time that we're at the temple stay and it was

really interesting because we learned how to do a hapjeong and a few

different bows and he explained the program that we're gonna be doing I'll

go more into detail with that later but for the time being we're gonna do a

the temple has three nicknames its Sun charitable time come don't own in harm

important the temple is and so that's why we have the nickname here and then

here we have the name of the mountain dong hun and then the name of the temple

Beomeosa (범어사) all the temples will always have the name of the mountain that it's

built in and the name of the temple and to explain the names kumudam Han

basically means golden well mountain and it's the name of this mountain

and the reason why it's called the golden well mountain is because long

before this temple was built the locals that lived here they had a legend and

the legend was that near the top of this mountain there's a big stone pillar and

but the top is concave so water gathers there and so they believed that there

was a golden fish from heaven that came down and lived inside that well and if

you drank the water from that well you could be cured of any illness that's the

to get to the main part of the temple we have to pass through three different

gates I think the most interesting one for me was the second gate that was the

one with it was like the for everything before Heavinly Kings that write off

evil spirits from the Buddha world right for now we're in the third gate I don't

know the meaning behind this one but this is the last gate right now let's

enter the temple listen to the temple so here we are in the dining hall and

apparently we're gonna be dining on the mats on the floor which is fascinating

can't wait to do it part of um Jung is the traditional way for Korea monks to

have meals this is something that we do here at the temple every every meal

basically you know breakfast lunch dinner and so it's just a traditional

way of eating back then Buddha would have actually just one bowl and he would

go out into town once a day and beg for food they would go around seven houses

and whatever they got that was their meal for the day they would come back

they would put all the meal into one spot so that tradition kind of carried

over and here in Korean temples we don't beg for food Buddhism is not like the

state religion or the country's religion so if we went out begging we probably

wouldn't be able to survive basically we kind of have meals here inside the

temple yeah but you're going to be using these bowls which is called puddle and

these are like the traditional bowls that's supposed to symbolically

represent the bowl that the Buddha used and so we have four inside and I'm going

to show you how to use each one top cover basically you're just gonna fold

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Korean Temple Stay at Beomeosa Buddhist Temple (범어사) in Busan, South Korea

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