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Spreading benevolence of Buddha to the world
Chief Monk Dowon of Dongdosa Temple
One thousand year Dongdosa Temple breathes with local community
Dongdosa Temple is Yongin City’s No.95 Traditional Temple and has its root in Geumdansa Temple built by Monk Geumdan in the Unified Shilla Kingdom. The temple embraces Eoribi Three Story Stone Pagoda, the No.194 Tangible Asset of Gyeonggi Province, and the Statue of Buddha, the No.65 Local Relic of Yongin City in the main temple. These two assets have high historical and academic values and thus the temple is regarded as unique. Kalmasan Mountain is behind the temple and Idong Reservoir is in front and visitors can enjoy fully the four seasonal changes of nature.
The main temple was burnt down by a fault current in 2001 and recovered in 2005 but burnt down again in 2008 and re-recovered with the help of people led by the chief monk Dowon. But this unfortunate incident served as a momentum for Dowon to have carried on his sharing and volunteer activities for the last 20 years.
Dowon started to give helping hand to neighbors in need from 1986 and run a daily tea room to help youth in need from 2000. Also, he is collecting donations (money, rice, kimchi and daily necessities) for elderly with no shelter, multi-cultural families and disabled children. He collected 4 million won ($3,557) to buy rice, ramen and tissues and 40 boxes of 15kg kimchi through bazaars and daily tea rooms to be sent to people in need last February.
His helping hand also has reached soldiers for 25 years and prisoners for 17 years. He and brothers and sisters of Dongdosa Temple launched an event in 2014 to give kimchi to prisoners of Cheonan Prison and their families and the event keeps carrying on with the support of the Cheonan Prison Reform Association. Dowon started to serve as the president of the association from 2016. He said “We give a particular focus on 1:1 mentoring to help them return back to society with sound mind. We listen carefully to each of their stories and give helpful advice and heal the wound.”
“Helping others also needs support alongside the will”
Despite the heartwarming devotion of Dowon and brothers and sisters of Dongdosa Temple, the local government’s financial support for the squeezed budget of the temple seems not sufficient. The temple only secured part of the fund from the local governments to build a new toilet last year but many socially good charity events are still in need of support.
“There are people who are suffering from hunger and financial difficulty right now. Our goal is to turn the temple to a place where all those suffering people come and rest and find a peace of their heart and body. But this also requires budget. So I ask the local governments and people to give support.”
Dowon continues “Eventually, I want to build a complex cultural facility where not only people in need come and rest but also local residents alike especially the elderly people as we are getting into an aging society. So we had better prepare in earlier stage.”
In fact, the facility, if completed, will also run various programs such as music and performance, temple stay, meditation and exhibition so that more people can benefit from culture and art.
Meanwhile, Dowon served as the first director of the Federation of Yongin Buddhist Choirs and the permanent Buddhist priest of the Yongin Buddhist Hall and worked as the secretary general of the Yongin Buddhist Saam Federation for tens of years before became the president of the federation in 2011. He once again was inducted to the same position in 2017 for the contribution to the development and harmony of the Korean Buddhism. Currently, he is working as a co-president of the Yongin Statue of Peace for Comfort Women Promotion Committee and is preparing for the unveiling ceremony of the statue in the Seoul City Hall Square on 15 August, the Liberation Day. It is Dowon’s goal to pray for healing of the painful history, for peace in the Korean Peninsula and the world and for underprivileged people in benevolence of Buddha.
“Happiness is in one’s heart and it comes when one throws away greed and desire but be thankful to everything. In the same respect, sharing is an act of making one’s life happy and of filling one’s life with bless.”
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