Abstract:

This paper provides an original translation and commentary on the prayer “Stroll (산보 Sanbo)” or “Spiritual Hiking (정신 하이킹)” by Dasŏk Yu Yŏng-mo (1890-1981). It places the prayer within his multi-religious Korean context and explores it to understand Dasŏk’s spiritual principle of “pint’ang-hante machhyŏ noli,” or “Playing Rituals in Harmony with the Emptiness Together.” This paper has four main aims: to help stimulate Dasǒk scholarship in the English speaking world; to contribute to scholarship on contextual (Korean/East Asian) theology, global theology, theological inculturation, theology of religions, and comparative theology; to highlight Dasǒk’s unique contribution to “religious pluralism;” and, to provide an original translation and commentary on his work, making this not simply a basic survey of his ideas, but also a deep insight into his complex world of meaning.