By This will be a lot of work for these Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka to do:
“One hundred Sri Lankan Buddhist monks will be provided with opportunity to learn the Korean language in South Korea with the aim of translating Tripitaka into the Korean language,” said South Korea Chief Sanghanayaka Sakkayan Thera.
The Chief Sanghanayaka arrived in Sri Lanka Sunday (24) to enhance Sri Lanka-South Korea Buddhist relations in view of the 2600th Sambuddhatva Jayanthi.
His delegation was received by Rural Affairs Senior Minister Athaudha Seneviratne.
Ven Sakkayan Thera added that all necessary steps will be taken to uplift Buddhism in the two countries.
South Korea has planned to set up hospitals in Sri Lanka and to provide them with South Korean technology, he said.
The Chief Sanghanayaka added that scholarships will be provided to Sri Lankan students.
The South Korean delegation included leading businessmen, scholars, Buddhist monks and other experts. [Daily News]
11:50 pm on April 29th, 2011 1
Isn't there already an ongoing project to render the Tripitaka Koreana at Haein-sa into Korean and English? Are the 100 Sri Lankan monks merely joining that project, or will they learn Korean, go back to Sri Lanka, and use their newfound Korean knowledge to translate another version of the Tripitaka into Korean? Just curious.
8:02 am on April 30th, 2011 2
Intense Debate just wiped out your entire comments section for the whole blog from what I'm seeing…
12:40 pm on April 30th, 2011 3
So, according to GIKorea and IntenseDebate.com’s website, the comments are in a “syncing” process. Since there are thousands of comments, it’s going to take a while for the comments to “sync”. In the meantime, if you want to see old comments you have to push the “esc” key at the right time while everything is loading.
4:22 pm on April 30th, 2011 4
Let me guess: it's like the Human Genome project. On one side you've got a group sponsored by a religious fundamentalist government who wants to control the findings in order to stifle scientific research in the name of religious dogma and on the other you have a rogue research who wants to get as much of it done, and copyright the findings, in order to ensure that the information is properly distributed to and used by other researchers.