Notice

2022 Lotus Lantern Making Event for Foreigners
Date 2022-03-07

Feel and experience 1,200 year old traditional Korean culture.

Please acknowledge your Buddhahood by lighting a Lotus lantern in your mind.

 

The lantern symbolizes the brightening of our mind and the Lotus Lantern Making itself is a praying for our own happiness as well as the happiness for others.

 

The experience of Lotus Lantern Making is a amazing moment to reflect on your own sincere wishes and also an opportunity to carry around your own lantern in the mini parade around Insa-dong area.

The International Dharma Instructors Association(IDIA) invites you to the Lotus Lantern Making Event for Foreigners, as a part of the Yeondeunghoe(Lotus Lantern Festival)which is one of the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity and Korea's National Intangible Cultural Heritage.  Also, the event provides the great opportunity to experience a long lasting tradition of Korea cultures.

 

Date:                    May 1st (Sunday) 2022, 11am ~ 5pm

Lantern Making:      Part 1: 11am~1:30pm/ Part 2: 2:30~5:00pm

Award Ceremony:   Part 1: 1:30~2:30pm,  Part 2: 5:00~6:00pm

Place:                   In front of Ujeongchongguk next to Jogye-sa temple

Mini Parade :     7:00~9:00pm (Volunteers only) at Insa-dong area

 

How to get there:

Take subway line No.1 to Jonggak Station, Exit 2

Take subway line No.3 to Anguk Station, Exit 6

 

Please make a reservation as soon as possible to reserve your seat.
Please be there 10 minutes prior to the event, otherwise your seat will be assigned to other participants who are on the waiting list.

For further information, please check out www.LLF.or.kr/eng

 

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