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Korean Shamanism Explained (RFB)

What does a Siberian shaman (Sanskrit shramana) do but communicate between worlds?

Korean Shamanism Explained

(Al Jazeera English, Jan 21, 2022) Buddhists in South Korea rally against gov't 'religious bias'

(ReligionForBreakfast) Feb. 20, 2025: Korean Shamanism (Musok with its trance mansins) is a dynamic religious tradition rooted in spirit mediation (not meditation), ritual healing, and ancestral veneration to appease the spirits all around.

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  00:00 Basic overview
• 1:25 What is shamanism?
• 5:46 Shamanic deities explained
• 7:38 Who are the shamans?
• 12:40 Shamanism in Korea's religious landscape
• 14:25 Why the stigma?
• 18:26 Korean shamanism in the 21st century
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• Religion for Breakfast, Feb. 20, 2025; Pat Macpherson, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Chuseok Korean Harvest Festival Moon

We Koreans love food. "Food can be a pathway to enlightenment," says Buddhist nun (scmp.tv).

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Korean Harvest Festival is the "Korean Thanksgiving Day" (추석)

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Real Zen practice in Korea

(KOREA NOW) Watch this video at koreanow.com. Chuseok (추석) is the Korean version of "Thanksgiving," the time to eat a lot of songpyeon, and practice a little seon (zen, chan, dhyana, jhana) or meditation. This Harvest Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 9th month according to the lunar calendar. The exact day changes each year, but it typically falls on September or October. In 2021 it was on Sept. 21st. Korea enjoys a three-day holiday to be with family and friends making "song pong" dumpling cakes with all kinds of stuffing and eating them until sleepiness sets in.

Los Angeles celebrates Chuseok

(WQ) Look up over Korea Town, Los Angeles (near DTLA), beyond the neon signs of all the restaurants and the glaring headlights of all the traffic, and there's the Hollywood sign. Turn east and it's all the lights from The Miracle Mile (Wilshire Blvd.) Look around, and it's the bling of the beauties blaring Far East Movement in their BMWs and Mercedes.

Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan should make a buddy movie, running through K-Town, you know, to save on travel expenses for their next Hollywood blockbuster. Neighboring Hollywood is literally walking distance from K-Town, where the big studios meet the grimy streets of "This Can't Be Hollywood." What did you expect? I'dunno, something clean, a little glamorous, not smog, homeless bums, vagrant encampments, skanky prostitutes, and all this traffic.

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First robot suicide, South Korean oddity

They already murder (autonomous drones, super soldiers, smart weapons), go to war, lie (deceive), and have sex. Now they're killing themselves? What's next? Are they going to start drinking? This is like Stanley Kubrick tried to warn about in 2001: A Space Odyssey with HAL 9000, the artificial intelligence aboard the ship in space.

South Korea's first robot suicide. What happened? | Vantage with Palki Sharma

(Firstpost) July 5, 2024: In a surprising turn of events, overworked South Korea has witnessed its first reported case of a "robot suicide." A civil officer robot deployed by the Gumi City Council "threw itself" down a flight of stairs, sparking an official investigation into the incident. Did the robot kill itself? What happened and why? Palki Sharma brings the report. #firstpost #palkisharma #vantageonfirstpost

China's military shows off robot dog with automatic rifle mounted on its back

(ABC 7 Chicago) May 29, 2024: During recent military drills with Cambodia, China's military showed off a "robot dog" with an automatic rifle mounted on its back, essentially turning man's best (electronic) friend into a killing machine to kill man. abc7chicago.com/post/chinas-m...

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$100b Slaughterbots. Godfather of AI shows how AI will kill us, how to avoid it

(Digital Engine) April 19, 2024: New Atlas robot from Boston Dynamics and Figure 01 from OpenAI, leaked $100 billion OpenAI plan and a new project to avoid our extinction. Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Geoffrey Hinton, Sora.

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Movie 'Past Lives' gets Oscar buzz

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Past Lives | official trailer HD | A24

(A24) Feb 22, 2023: From Director Celine Song, starring Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, and John Magaro is a movie viewers will not soon forget. PAST LIVES. It's been a ride for a relatively low budget film to attract some Oscar buzz. It's competing with heavyweight Hollywood studios eager to win so as to attract more sales and more profit. But it's tough to deny a love story, even an Asian one, which Hollywood is usually disinterested in. #PastLives. http://bit.ly/A24subscribe.

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Korean Buddhist Temple Food (video)

Dr. Jia Choi, Ph.D. (O'ngo Food Tours, CIA, 4/8/16); CC Liu, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Next let’s visit Korea’s Barugongyang, Baru Buddhist Temple Restaurant, to see the head chef there, a Buddhist nun who is an excellent cook.

After we meditate, let's go try some lotus.

The CIA (Culinary Institute of America) paid a visit to taste some exotic Buddhist cuisine. Monastic Chef Dae-Ahn Sunim shows off her traditional Korean Buddhist temple cuisine for a lotus flower-themed lunch. Ven. Dae-Ahn explains a few dishes off her purely vegetarian (vegan) menu, including bamboo shoot salad, steamed potato dumplings, green tea tofu, and wild burdock in a pine nut sauce. Series recipes: ciaprochef.com/wca.

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The most romantic comedy in the world (film)

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"Windstruck" utilizes classic American music and a supermodel Korean starlet (Jeon Ji Hyeon) to tell a story of love gained, lost, and perhaps gained again. Whether that is happening in the afterlife is unclear. The story is told in the present reflecting on a great romance between a very tough beauty and a very sensitive man set in metropolitan Seoul. The completely ordinary and recognizable situations make Asia as American as San Francisco or New York with massive skyscrapers, street thugs, and the respite of nature just a drive away. It is funny, full of gunfire and action, but bring a box of tissues for the heartbreak. She does it all -- beats people up with martial arts, breaks rules at the department, dives off a building in an opening suicide bid, and falls in love as if it were an inescapable temptation. A decade later, it is out of print.

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North Korea: Kim's son named new leader

(VIDEO) SEOUL, South Korea (AP/AFP) – North Korea told its diplomatic missions that Kim Jong Il's youngest son — who reportedly enjoys skiing and studied English, German, and French at a Swiss school — will be the nation's next leader, a South Korean lawmaker and newspapers said Tuesday. The secretive communist state sent the message about the 26-year-old son, Kim Jong-un, after the nation's May 25 nuclear test, which along with a series of missile tests has greatly raised tensions in the region, the Hankook Ilbo reported. More>>

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Korean Renaissance Art

Art Review "Art of the Korean Renaissance"

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"Treasures at a Korean Crossroad"

The Korean art gallery at the Metropolitan Museum is a trim, tall, well-proportioned box of light. But it’s just one room, and a smallish one at that, reflecting the museum’s modest holdings in art from this region and the still scant attention paid to it by Western scholars.

So no surprise that the expansive-sounding exhibition called “Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600” is, by Met standards, a small thing too, with four dozen objects. Most of them — ceramic jars, lacquer boxes, scroll paintings — are compact enough to be stashed in a closet.

What the show lacks in grandeur, though, it makes up in fineness, and in rarity. All of the art dates from a period of cultural efflorescence and innovation in Korea. Experimental art was on the boil; utopian ideas were in the air. Yet much of what was produced then was lost in the series of invasions and occupations that began at the end of the 16th century. More>>

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PHOTOS: 1. An Amitabha triad from the 15th century. Change was the essence of Korea’s Choson dynasty, which was founded in 1392, and lasted for more than five centuries. It is the Buddhist art of the early Choson that gives the exhibition its flashes of color and spectacle. (Photo: The Cleveland Museum of Art). 2. Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea, "Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art features a 15th-century epitaph tablet.

American monk in Korea

American monk in Korea on Buddhism (Can't play this video?) Download: iPod/PSP

Join host Dennis Wholey for a conversation about Buddhism -- beliefs and practices -- with Hyon Gak Sunim in Seoul, Korea.