Golgul Temple Stay- The Sunmudo Training
SUNMUDO Martial Arts Training We arrived at the temple gate and drove through forest and hills and soon stopped at a large three story building which was more like an apartment building except it had similar features of a palace; tiered roof, bright colors, and Buddhist statues around the perimeter. This was where we were going to spend the night, so was took our stuff, or in my case, lack thereof, and chose a room to stay in. We were then directed to follow a trail up a hill and towards another temple-style building where we ate dinner. It was a meal of Buddhist food, no meat, lots of vegetables and rice, side dishes of bean sprouts, white and red kimche and bean sprout soup. For Buddhist temple food, which has a reputation of not being the best cuisine around, this was actually pretty tasty. It was at dinner when I saw a group of young monks that must have been about 12 years old. They all had shaved heads and red robes on, and they were serving the temple-stayers food and...