[KS] Fulbright Forum Friday May 16

[Horace H. Underwood]

FULBRIGHT FORUM!!

Fulbright in Seoul (the Korean American Educational Commission) is pleased
to invite you to attend the Fulbright Forum for May, which will be held this
Friday, May 16, 2003, at 6:30 p.m. at the Commission offices in Mapo.

This speaker this month will be Ms. Johanna Kuhn-Osius, a 2002-2003
Fulbright Junior Research Fellow in Korea.  Ms. Kuhn-Osius graduated from
Pomona College with a B.A. in Asian Studies in 2002, where she wrote her
senior thesis on Korean stupas (pagodas), and their religious context.  The
topic of the presentation this month will be:

"Sacred Geography: Mountains and Buddhism in Korea"

Sacred mountains can be found in many religions and cultures, but Korea has
a particularly long history of mountains as sacred ground.  The connection
between  mountains and the spiritual or supernatural has manifested itself
in Korean Buddhism in a variety of interesting ways, such as the
incorporation of mountain spirits into the Buddhist pantheon, mountains with
Buddhist names, mountains as three-dimensional mandalas, and the belief that
bodhisattvas (Buddhist "saints") literally dwell on some peaks of the Korean
peninsula.  This presentation will explore these issues in the past and
present, and will include pictures of important sites.

We welcome to the May Fulbright Forum all Fulbrighters, senior scholars,
graduate students and ETAs, as well as Board Members, Fulbright alumni,
Peace Corps alumni, Korean studies scholars, foreign graduate students, RAS
members, and any other interested friends of Korea or members of the
Fulbright family.

The presentation will be followed by a buffet reception (in lieu of dinner.)
We hope many friends will come to enjoy the lecture, the discussion, and the
food.

Place: Fulbright Building
168-15 Yomni-dong, Mapo-gu
see maps on our website: www.fulbright.or.kr
or call Mrs. Lee: 3275-4000 for directions
Date: Friday, May 16, 2003
Time: 6:30 p.m.

See you this Friday!

Horace H. Underwood, Executive Director
Korean-American Educational Commission (Fulbright)
Seoul, Korea
hhu at fulbright.or.kr