Jikji is the name of a book of Buddhist scripture printed on a moveable metal printing press in 1377 - that's 78 years before Guttenberg's famous invention. Yesterday we went to the printing museum in Cheongju at the location of the Buddhist temple where the book was printed. At the end of our most interesting tour we made a book of our own - made the paper, embossed the cover, and sewed the pages together to bind it.
Mark Petersen, Korean scholar, BYU faculty member of Asian Studies and dear old friend is in Korea with a group of teachers and students for a culture trip extradorinaire. We took most of a day (a very rare experience) to tag along and learn a few things. Afterward we had dinner at a sushi bar where all the little dishes come around on a conveyer belt and you take what looks good!
2 comments:
That looks really fun. One of the things I must say I love about Korea; things to do there you would never do here. I think there are some sushi restaurants in Cali. that have the converery belt system. SOmeone must have stolen the idea.
You do the most fun things! And your hair looks so great in these photos- you are such a babe. The book tour sounds incredible and now you are an official book binder... What can't you do?! Love you!
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