How long is it since the time when we could go in person to a talk given by a real person in an actual physical room? I reckon it’s around 15 months. Since the beginning of March last year, Zoom has been the norm. Online talks do have advantages over a traditional lecture theatre: you can […]
Author: David A Mason
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Selected publications by David A Mason
- Solitary Sage: The Profound Life, Wisdom and Legacy of Korea’s “Go-un” Choi Chi-won, Sanshinseon 2016
- An Encyclopedia of Korean Buddhism, Unju-sa 2013
- Baekdu-Daegan Trail: Hiking Korea’s Mountain Spine, Seoul Selection 2010
- Spirit of the Mountains, Hollym 1999
Online talk: Korean Neo-Confucianism and its Shrines
This is a first for LKL. After more than 15 years online, we’re organising our first ever event! Having sat through rather too many online seminars which I logged on to because they happened to be available, I suddenly realised that I really didn’t find many of them all that interesting. And then I discovered […]
Book review: Walking the Baekdu-Daegan trail
Roger Shepherd & Andrew Douch, with David A Mason: Baekdu Daegan Trail Seoul Selection, 2010, 446pp Korea is a mountainous country. If you google that phrase you will learn that 70% of South Korea’s land mass is designated as upland or mountains. And everyone knows that a lot of Koreans love hiking in the hills. […]