Korean Buddhism Quotes

“[B]lossom anew every day. ... A practitioner, like the water, should continue to flow endlessly toward the great sea. Today’s flower is not the same as the one that blossomed yesterday. And a practitioner, like a flower, should blossom anew every day.”
― Zen Master Bopjong, The Sound of Water, The Sound of Wind: And Other Early Works by a Korean Monk

“While Korean Buddhism did not begin as an exclusively Sŏn tradition, Sŏn was introduced into Korea perhaps as early as the late seventh century during Ch'an's incipiency on the Chinese mainland. By the thirteenth century, Sŏn came to dominate Buddhist doctrine and praxis, virtually eclipsing all other branches of Korean Buddhism after the fifteenth century.”
― Robert E. Buswell Jr., The Zen Monastic Experience

“It is three in the morning and another day has begun at the Korean Buddhist monastery of Songwang-sa.”
― Robert E. Buswell Jr., The Zen Monastic Experience