81. WISE/NIRS Nuclear Monitor; NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPSITE ISSUE IN SOUTH KOREA wonbuddhism, a Korea-oriented religion, joined the fight. Though won-buddhismstarted the fight to preserve their sacred ground (Yonggwang) from the http://www10.antenna.nl/wise/583/5492.html

published by WISE/NIRS Nuclear Monitor on February 21, 2003 Nuclear waste dumpsite issue in South Korea While the world's media have focused on North Korea re-starting an old nuclear reactor, and allegations that nuclear waste is being reprocessed to make nuclear weapons, South Korea came a step further to deciding where to site a dump for nuclear waste. (583.5492) KFEM - On 4 February, just after the Lunar New Year's day celebrations, the South Korean government's Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (MOCIE) announced the four candidates for the nuclear waste dumpsite. The candidates are Yonggwang and Gochang in South Jeola Province, and Ulchin and Youngduk in North Kyungsang Province. Among these candidates two will be selected, one in each of the above provinces, as the final locations for the nuclear dumpsites in March, 2004. And to our surprise, the government's plan includes a dumpsite for irradiated fuel. All previous attempts by the government to select a location for the nuclear waste dumpsite ended in failure after strong opposition from the residents and activists. The most recent try was Gulup Island (1). But after about 1 year's strong opposition, the attempt ended in failure as an active fault was found in that area (2). Through these struggles, Korean movement against nuclear waste dumpsite grew into a movement against nuclear power itself. And now Korean activists are demanding that the government change its energy policy from nuclear into renewable resources.

82. :: NewsLetter :: In November 2001, the female cleric staff of wonbuddhism collectively refused won-buddhism School, claiming that the oath perpetrates the ideology of http://www.womennews.co.kr/ewnews/enews41.htm

[Notice] The next newsletter update will be one week late due to the Korean traditional holiday. Thank you for your understanding. Expanding the Foundation of the Feminist Movement Time to Understand the Real North Korea E-6 Visa a Tool in Human Trafficking Majority in Favor of Abolishing Age Limit in Job Recruitment ... Campaign Stepped up ahead of Presidential Election Expanding the Foundation of the Feminist Movement "Women's participation in economic activities has increased, but most of the female workforce still serve as irregular, contract workers or work in businesses employing less than 10 workers. It is difficult to organize women workers within the national federation of trade unions, which focuses on unions of large corporations. The union organization rate of women workers has fallen to 5% since the financial crisis of 1997. Threatened by such trends, female labor activists have launched their own women's trade union." This is the background to the launching of the Korean Women's Trade Union (KWTU) that declared its independence from the two national umbrella labor organizations in 1999.

83. Manhattan Won Buddhist Temple won Buddhist Manhattan Temple, offers weekly dharma talk by Rev. Lee. http://www.wonbuddhist.org/

Introduction Scripture Programs Monthly Calendar ... donation Manhattan Won -Buddhist Temple 431 East 57 St. New York, NY 10022 (Tel)212-750-2773, (Fax) 212-750-2774 info @wonbuddhist.org Recent Dharma Talks Titles (Click Title to Listen) Date Down Related Verse Larger Self Embracing Emptiness (by Kimball Jones) Inner Compass One Pointedness Dharma Talk archives RealAudio download Upcoming Events and Notice Meditation Introductory Class Sep. 11 Sunday 10:00 am The introductory class will explore meditation techniques such as tan-jun breathing, proper posture, and fundamental theory. Registration is requested one week in advance. A question and answer period will follow the class. This is especially appropriate for beginners wishing to explore Buddhist meditation. Suggested donation is $5. Weekly Program Sunday Service -Group Meditation ~All programs are in English~ ~30 Minutes Discussion after Sunday Service ~

84. Theravada, Mahayana And The New Religions: Changing Perspectives In Regard To Th An article by Ryuei which appeared in the journal won Buddhist Studies, Vol.III 1998, publ. by the Institute of won Buddhist Studies. http://nichirenscoffeehouse.net/Ryuei/3shifts.html

Theravada, Mahayana and the New Religions: Changing Perspectives in Regard to the Saha World by Ryuei Michael McCormick This article appeared in the journal Won Buddhist Studies , Volume III 1998, published by the Institute of Won Buddhist Studies. It is commonly believed by many people that the average Buddhist regards this world as nothing but a vast collection of illusions and irrelevancies. The first problem with this impression is that there really is no such thing as an average Buddhist. One might even say that if you were to put four Buddhists together in a room to discuss the meaning of the Buddha Dharma, one would end up with five different opinions about what the Buddha Dharma is. It might, perhaps, be more efficient to go the sutras and commentaries which make up the Buddhist canon to see how these sources of the tradition view the world. Even here, however, there seem to be many differences of opinion. Admittedly, I have not been able to conduct anything even approximating a comprehensive survey of the Buddhist canon. In fact, there are even debates within Buddhism itself about what makes up the Buddhist canon. Given all of these problems, however, three major attitudes or themes towards the world can be discerned within the vast and living tradition which is world Buddhism. Renunciation of the world is the first theme, and it is primarily emphasized by those sutras and those Buddhist traditions which purport to represent the actual teachings and practices of the historical Buddha, such as the Pali canon and the Theravadin schools of South East Asia. The next important theme to emerge from the Buddhist tradition is compassion, which is emphasized by the Mahayana canon and the Mahayana schools of East Asia. Finally, there is the theme of gratitude, which has primarily been emphasized by the New Religions which have emerged in the last two centuries out of the matrix of Mahayana Buddhism and modernization in East Asia.

85. Zen And The Arts This essay is based on a presentation Ryuei gave at the won Buddhist Temple ofPhiladelphia prior to his conversion to the Nichiren Shu. http://g.webring.com/hub?ring=zeninarts

86. Temples In Flames According to Dr. Kim Sunggon, a professor at Youngsan won Buddhist Seminary, boththe AKR and the KCRP aim at improving mutual understanding and creating a http://www.buddhapia.com/eng/tedesco/1.html

Temples in Flames Note: Please view with MS Explorer to read accurately the special characters for pronounciation of Korean words. I wrote the following article with the assistance of my wife Jenny Lim in the the spring of 1996 shortly after arson attacks on Buddhist temples in Suyuri section of northern Seoul. I presented it at a panel entitled "Buddhist and Christian Cooperation for Social Action in Korea" which I organized and moderated for the 1996 Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Conference "Socially Engaged Buddhism and Christianity" hosted by Depaul University in Chicago. The panel was composed of Venerable Shin Bop Ta, abbot of Eunhaesa Monastery and chairman of the One Korea Movement; Venerable Pomnyun, leader of the Join Together Society and the Buddhist Academy for Ecological Awakening; Professor Kim Kyong Jae of Hanshin University, an ordained minister of the Korean Presbyterian Church and author of Christianity and the Encounter of Asian Religions (Bockencentrum, 1994); and Professor Chung Hyun-Kyung, a eco-feminist liberation theologian who teaches at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Frank M. Tedesco presented the focal paper reproduced below. The Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies was so moved by the revelation of fire bombings of Buddhist temples and tensions between the faiths in Korea that officially issued a Statement of Concern and Support for Korean Buddhists at the end of the meeting which was endorsed with signatures by hundreds of the participants at the conference. The SBCS has set up a fund to redress the destruction.

87. WHO OR WHAT IS? and has been president of Cheonji-bo-eun-hoi, an won Buddhist environmentalgroup. She is also considered one of the most respected living won Buddhist http://www.proact-campaigns.net/southkorea/id37.html

PROACT SOUTH KOREA WHO OR WHAT IS? THE SAEMNAGEUM CAMPAIGN REINFORCE SUCCESS WALKING FOR WETLANDS WHO OR WHAT IS? SAEMBOWS FOR SAEMANGEUM WHO OR WHAT IS? Saemangeum : The most important site for migratory shorebirds in the whole of the Yellow Sea (a sea bordered by China, North Korea and South Korea), hundreds of thousands of shorebirds (waders) use Saemangeum as a refuelling point on migration between their breeding and wintering grounds. Two of the world's most endangered shorebirds - the Spotted (or Nordmann's) Greenshank and the Spoon-billed Sandpiper - will slip further towards extinction if the project, to reclaim 40,100 ha of tidal-flat and shallows, is not halted. Court ruling : The reclamation was suspended when a Korean court ruled in July 2003 that water in the proposed huge reclamation reservoirs will be of too low quality for agricultural use - rendering the project's meaning illegitimate and the costs required to clean it up far in excess of those claimed by the government. Samboilbae : With its origin in religion, the Samboilbae can be practiced by all: religious and non-religious, spiritual and cynical - in this case anyone that believes in the value of wetlands, and in the importance of helping to raise awareness and publicity.

88. Publikationsliste Von Prof.Dr.Michael Pye, Marburg: Artikel Association, won Buddhist, Human Culture and won Buddhist Thought, Vol.2,, 2,Iri City (Korea), (16891712); 1991 Reflections on the treatment of tradition http://www.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/pub_mp_art.html

Publikationsliste von Prof.Dr.Michael Pye Artikel (Stand: Mai 1997) The transplantation of religions Numen, Assimilation and skilful means Religion, Syncretism and ambiguity Numen, A Buddhist approach to comparative religion in schools British Journal of Educational Studies, Aufklärung and religion in Europe and Japan Religious Studies, Comparative hermeneutics in religion Pye, Michael and Morgan, Robert, The Cardinal Meaning, The Hague, (9-58) Problems of method in the interpretation of religion Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Japanese studies of religion Religion, Special Issue for IAHR Congress, August 1975 (55-72) The end of the problem about other religions Clayton, J., Ernst Troeltsch and the Future of Theology, Cambridge, (172-195) Diversions in the interpretation of Shinto Anthony, D.W. (ed.), Proceedings of the British Association for Japanese Studies (Volume Two, Part Two: Social Sciences), Sheffield, (77-92) The Heart Sutra in Japanese context Lancaster, L. and Gómez, Luis O., Prajnaparamita and Related Systems. Studies in Honor of Edward Conze, Berkeley, California, (123-134)

89. 2001 August Members Of House Visited Izuo Church On 2 August, Mr won Buddhist Courtesy Call to Izuo Church On 25 August, Rev. Kim Inchul of wonBuddhist visited Konko Church of Izuo to pay a courtesy visit for the Most http://www.relnet.co.jp/izuo/brief/2001august.htm

August Members of House visited Izuo Church On 2 August, Mr. Shin Sakurai, who was selected as a member of the House of Councils in the latest election by a proportional representation system, and two House of Representatives members visited Konko Church of Izuo to express their appreciation. Mr. Sakurai as the former Director of the Agency of Environment opposes to globalize the food issue, which effects directly to our life, like economic or information issues. His policy is " to protect water and green in Japan" by promoting the agriculture matching to each country. Izuo Church has supported him because his policy has some similarities with its approach to the environmental issue. It's expected that Izuo Church's environmental campaign would promote further by recovering of Mr. Sakurai to the political society who visited Izuo Church every month from Niigata Prefecture. Attended Religious Summit Meeting on Mt. Hiei

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