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69 _ Places Buddhist followers doing tapdori, a ritual of walking around a pagoda Did You Know? One of Asia’s most comprehensive collections of the Buddhist canon is preserved at Haeinsa Temple in Gyeongsangnam-do. Known among Westerners as the Tripitaka Koreana, the scriptures were carved on over 80,000 wood blocks, without a single error. The project was under-taken as a plea to keep the invading Mongols out and was completed in 1252 after 16 years of work. Even today the blocks remain in excellent condition and are the basis for the most authoritative texts of Buddhist scripture. These are Included on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List. Shrines Countless shrines dot the countryside, but they honor not so much the individual heros as the values they lived by and died for. Many are memorials to a faithful daughter or son, for Koreans revered hyodo, or filial piety, as the highest virtue. Some even honor animals. In the village of Osu in Jeollabuk-do Province, there is a gravestone marked "the grave of a faithful dog." It was erected in honor of a dog which sacrificed his own life while trying to put out flames engulfing his master, who had fallen in a drunken stupor. The local magistrate himself reportedly wrote the inscription. But the most heartbreaking legend in
70 _ HELLO from KOREA Korean folklore is the inspiration for Howonsa, the Temple of the Tiger's Wish, in Gyeongju. Tigers feature prominently in Korean folk literature, usually as the affectionate dupes or scheming enemies of humans, but the female tiger of this tale is a noble creature, a rebuke to lesser humans. According to the story, an ambitious young man named Kim Hyeon met a beautiful young woman at the Heungnyunsa Temple near Gyeongju during an annual festival in the eighth lunar month. It was said that the one who walked around the pavilion there the most times in eight days would have his or her wish granted. Meeting every night in silence, Kim Hyeon and the woman fell in love. On the last night, Hyeon begged to follow her home. He did not understand her reluctance until he reached the house and met her mother, a tiger. Immediately her three brothers came home and sensed his presence. The woman begged them to spare him, agreeing to sacrifice herself as heaven's punishment for her brothers' excesses. Hyeon was horrified. He refused to go along with her plan of making him a hero by slaying her as a tiger. Nevertheless, the
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