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69 _ Places<br />
Buddhist followers doing tapdori, a ritual of walking around a pagoda<br />
Did You Know?<br />
One of Asia’s most comprehensive<br />
collections of the<br />
Buddhist canon is preserved<br />
at Haeinsa Temple in Gyeongsangnam-do.<br />
Known among<br />
Westerners as the Tripitaka<br />
Koreana, the scriptures were<br />
carved on over 80,000 wood<br />
blocks, without a single error.<br />
The project was under-taken<br />
as a plea to keep the invading<br />
Mongols out and was completed<br />
in 1252 after 16 years of<br />
work.<br />
Even today the blocks remain in<br />
excellent condition and are the<br />
basis for the most authoritative<br />
texts of Buddhist scripture.<br />
These are Included on the<br />
UNESCO World Cultural<br />
Heritage List.<br />
Shrines<br />
Countless shrines dot the countryside, but<br />
they honor not so much the individual heros<br />
as the values they lived by and died for.<br />
Many are memorials to a faithful daughter or<br />
son, for Koreans revered hyodo, or filial<br />
piety, as the highest virtue.<br />
Some even honor animals. In the village of<br />
Osu in Jeollabuk-do Province, there is a<br />
gravestone marked "the grave of a faithful<br />
dog." It was erected in honor of a dog which<br />
sacrificed his own life while trying to put out<br />
flames engulfing his master, who had fallen<br />
in a drunken stupor. The local magistrate<br />
himself reportedly wrote the inscription.<br />
But the most heartbreaking legend in