Sunday, April 26, 2009

What is the name of the Shaolin temple in the Korean language?

The Shaolin temple (The temple where Bodhidharma first taught Ch'an Buddhism in China) is called Shaolínsì in Chinese and Shorinji in Japanese. What is this temple called in Korean?





Now before someone says Shaolin in Korean or any language is Shaolin, please remember that few things, 1) Shaolin in Japanese is not Shaolin. 2) The name "China" in Korean or Japanese is Not "China" 3) The name of the Indian Monk that taught Ch'an Buddhism (Bodhidharma) is pronounced P'ut'I Tamo or simply Tamo in Chinese; Daruma in Japanese and Boridalma in Korean. Thus it is not unreasonable to assume that the name of the temple itself is pronounced differently. Thank you!

What is the name of the Shaolin temple in the Korean language?
Sorimsa.


You know, The Shaolin Temple is written as 少林寺 in written Chinese. "少" here, is pronounced as "so" in Korean, "林" as "rim", and "寺" as "sa".
Reply:This is what I've come up with so far... If I can find more I'll edit








Shaolin = "young (or new) forest"





젊은 숲 = young forest





새로운 숲 = new forest





사원 = temple





젊은 숲 사원 = Young Forest Temple





Shaolin사원은





Excerpt below from http://www.shaolin.com/shaolin_history.a... :


- The temple had been built years before in the remains of a forest that had been cleared or burned down. At the time of the building of the temple, the emperor's gardeners had also planted new trees. Thus the temple was named "young (or new) forest", (Shaolin in Mandarin, Sil Lum in Cantonese).





http://www.shaolin-world.net/shifu/histo...


- In the early days Tang Soo Dao (Tang?s Open Hands)


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