Dharmaga tongjoguro kan kkadalgun
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Three people live in a remote Buddhist monastery near Mount Chonan: Hyegok, the
old master; Yong Nan, a young man who has left his extended family in the city to
seek enlightenment - Hyegok calls him Kibong!; and, an orphan lad Haejin, whom
Hyegok has brought to the monastery to raise as a monk. The story is mostly
Yong Nan's, told in flashbacks: how he came to the monastery, his brief return
to the city, his vacillation between the turbulence of the world and his hope to
overcome passions and escape the idea of self. We also see Hyegok as a teacher,
a protector, and a father figure, and we watch Haejin make his way as a curious
and nearly self-sufficient child.
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