Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?(달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은)
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Korea · 1989
2h 24m
Director Bae Yong-kyun
Starring Lee Pan-yong, Sin Won-sop, Hwang Hae-jin, Go Su-myeong
Genre Drama
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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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