Buddhism in Korea

I observed that Buddhism is greatly promoted in Korea these days in every trip you will find visits to temple. Mostly these visits are free of cost especially foreigners are invited for this kind of trips. I don’t know why but not only Korean but foreigners are encouraged to visit temples and see history of Buddhism. There is a tip they offered usually and that is called Temple stay. For foreigner this is free of cost.

 They will let you know about Buddha preaching’s, their life style and their traditional ways of soul therapy. They emphasize on the use of nature for the comfort of human beings and according to their believe that is why temples are located on the top of mountains so that people may be able to explore the nature, have a walk, hiking with fresh breath and most importantly they may have time to get themselves back.

What so ever the reason is but these people are doing great job in spreading their religion, believes and thoughts in systemic way. It is also a fact that both the believers and non-believers travel just for fun and for the sake of wondering around. Mostly they are not concerned with the believes of Buddha. Sometimes to explore the beauty of Korea is their only concerns. It made me think many times who is sponsoring these kind of events and who is paying for such trips. What so ever the reason is, the best thing is that internationals are enjoying such events..:)