Comments on: 12/9 Celebration of U.N. International Mountain Day http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/129-celebration-of-un-international-mountain-day/ Korea... in Blog Format Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:19:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: sanshinseon http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/129-celebration-of-un-international-mountain-day/#comment-121377 sanshinseon Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:34:30 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/12/04/129-celebration-of-un-international-mountain-day/#comment-121377 We will begin at one o'clock pm by meeting at the entrance gate (with the name-signboard, just above the hiker's parking lot) of Doseon-sa (Seoul's most important and historic Buddhist mountain-temple) above Ui-dong. I will give a free tour of this temple to the group, and then conduct a fairly traditional Mountain-spirit Respecting-Ceremony at their shrine, which everyone can either join in or just watch. At 3pm we will then go down to the main venue, a mountain-hiking institute in Ui-dong, for a brief ceremony, some speeches and poetry and music, and a Korean meal. Speakers will be "some of the most active and vibrant figures of Korea's mountain world": - Cho Young-chang: organizer for the Samgaksan Campaign, Gangbuk District Office, Seoul - David A. Mason: Tourism professor of Kyunghee Univeristy; expert on Korean mountain-worship and sacred-mountain traditions - Jake Preston: mountaineer; representative of Korea on the Rocks - Rayn Roberts: poet of the Buddhist traditions of Korea's mountains - Roger Shepherd: trekker; chief field-researcher of the Baekdu Daegan Expedition Project - Shin Min-kyoung: organizer of the Samgaksan Mountain Festival, Gangbuk District Office - Shawn James Morrissey: President Korean Mountaineering League Please join us for this pleasant afternoon if you love the mountains and feel inclined to do so... We will begin at one o’clock pm by meeting at the entrance gate (with the name-signboard, just above the hiker’s parking lot) of Doseon-sa (Seoul’s most important and historic Buddhist mountain-temple) above Ui-dong. I will give a free tour of this temple to the group, and then conduct a fairly traditional Mountain-spirit Respecting-Ceremony at their shrine, which everyone can either join in or just watch.

At 3pm we will then go down to the main venue, a mountain-hiking institute in Ui-dong, for a brief ceremony, some speeches and poetry and music, and a Korean meal. Speakers will be “some of the most active and vibrant figures of Korea’s mountain world”:

- Cho Young-chang: organizer for the Samgaksan Campaign, Gangbuk District Office, Seoul
- David A. Mason: Tourism professor of Kyunghee Univeristy; expert on Korean mountain-worship and sacred-mountain traditions
- Jake Preston: mountaineer; representative of Korea on the Rocks
- Rayn Roberts: poet of the Buddhist traditions of Korea’s mountains
- Roger Shepherd: trekker; chief field-researcher of the Baekdu Daegan Expedition Project
- Shin Min-kyoung: organizer of the Samgaksan Mountain Festival, Gangbuk District Office
- Shawn James Morrissey: President Korean Mountaineering League

Please join us for this pleasant afternoon if you love the mountains and feel inclined to do so…

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