From Eternity to Eternity : Memoirs of a Korean Buddhist Nun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bulpil Sunim, Bulpil.

Contributor:

Cho, Eunsu.

Oh, Soojin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhist nuns--Korea--Biography.

Buddhist nuns.

Zen Buddhism--Korea.

Zen Buddhism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2024.

Summary:

A vivid, firsthand account of life as a Buddhist nun, by the most respected female Zen master in Korea.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Translator's Acknowledgments

Translator's Introduction: The Women's Buddhist Tradition in Korea

Chronology

Author's Preface

Where Am I Going?

Chapter 1: Karmic Connection: Where Will We Meet Again, and as What?

Mukgokri, My Hometown

Meeting Seongcheol Sunim, My Father, for the First Time

Feeling the Transience of Life in the Experience of War

Chapter 2: Entering the Monastery: Eternal Happiness and Temporal Happiness

"What Is Eternal Happiness?"

Before Leaving Home

My Grandmother's Sacred Maternal Love

My Mother's Dreams, Buried in Her Heart

Chapter 3: Handwritten Sermon Notes: You Are Inherently Buddha, Yet You Don't Know It

A Practitioner Must First Know Poverty

Keun Sunim's Textbook for Practitioners

T he Eight Precepts of Practice, from Sacrifice to Asceticism

The Eight Precepts of Practice

1. Sacrifice

2. Severance from secular life

3. Solitude

4. Contempt

5. Humility

6. Commitment

7. Endeavor

8. Asceticism

Chapter 4: Life as a Postulant: The Bushy-Haired Postulants' First Charge toward Enlightenment

There Is No Tomorrow

Afflicted by the Malady of Meditation

You Self-Absorbed Cook!

One Thing

The Hermitage Song

If Your Hwadu Is Clear Even in Your Dreams

T he Song of Enlightenment

Make the Precepts Your Teacher

Chapter 5: Seongnamsa Monastery: The Tiger of Gajisan Becomes My Vocation Master

Hapil and Bulpil

Searching for a Place to Practice

The Dharma Exchange That Shocked the Monastery

Ten Requests for the Monastic

1. Impermanence

2. Poverty

3. Endeavor

4. Celibacy

5. Honesty

6. Humility

7. Altruism

8. Self-reflection

9. Salvation

10. Causality

A Communal Meal for a Hundred People

The Mortar Monk's Secret to Not Dozing Off.

Saving Our Teacher with a Twenty-One-Day Prayer

My Mother, Who Became Ilhyu Sunim

Chapter 6: Practice: In Search of the Path to Eternal Freedom

Breaking Ten Years of Silence, the Lion's Roar Sermon

T he Three-Year Gyeolsa at Simgeomdang

Intensive Practice, without Even Leaning on a Chair

Living Communally in Harmony

The Innocent Friendship of the Elder Nuns

Chapter 7: Haeinsa Monastery: In the Refuge of Wisdom and Compassion

My First and Final Letter from Keun Sunim

Scenes of Ordination

No One Ever Died Doing Prostrations

Chapter 8 Eternal Moments

The Ringing Bells of Nirvana

My Resolve Will Not Waver

A Place Outside Time and Space, Geoboesa

March 1997, a Blossoming Spring Day

From Eternity to Eternity

Epilogue: A Dedication Poem for Keun Sunim

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9798855800432

OCLC:

1468527330