Posted January. 12, 2001 19:39,
An essay collection by Buddhist monk Bobjong has hit the market. It is sort of a book of proverbs on the author`s feelings about the seasons. At the end of the book, there are letters from the monk.
If readers expect high-flown lessons from a Buddhist monk, they are bound to be disappointed.
The monk simply wrote letters to his friends telling them, for example, that he went to a market some 10 kilometers away and bought bean curd, a bundle of mallow, a loaf of bread, a sickle and two pencils.
Nowhere in the sentences are there any traces of denouncing somebody else or preaching, but I felt was being scolded while reading the book.
Written by Bobjong/ edited by Ryoo Shi-Hwa/ 219 pages, 8,000 won/ Published by Irae.
Poet Kim Kap-Soo