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Unique among the temple stays, Golgulsa is home to sunmudo, a type of martial art combined with meditation, yoga and chi qong. Passed down from monk to monk over the centuries, it was first ...

From our partners: South Korea’s temple stay program offers a unique chance to experience monastic life. South Korea’s bustling capital never slows down. No matter the time, day or night, you’ll ...

Among the dozens of martial arts in Korea, sunmudo (seonmudo) has been practiced at Buddhist temples in Korea. The name literally means "meditative martial art" and combines spiritual elements such as ...

How did you come up with the idea of “vegan investments”? I’ve been interested in a vegan lifestyle since practicing Sunmudo martial arts in a monastery in Korea. The monks who lived there were the ...

The Sunmudo demonstrations take place at the Golgulsa Temple in Gyeongju. The monks say Sunmudo is good for your body. "There are people who suffer from a lot of stress and so they need a healthy body ...

Buddhist monk Ando demonstrates Sunmudo martial arts techniques. The monks of Beomeosa Temple in South Korea are famed for defeating Japanese invaders during the late 1500s and again during the ...

Stern and reclusive, the old master Yang-ik rarely allowed outsiders to train among the monks and resisted popularizing a martial-arts technique known as Sunmudo that has historically been steeped ...

Stern and reclusive, the old master Yang-ik rarely allowed outsiders to train among the monks and resisted popularizing a martial arts technique known as Sunmudo that has historically been steeped ...

My friend had neglected to tell me that Golgulsa is the home of sunmudo: a combination of yoga, meditation and taekwondo. I checked into my room and slipped into the monk’s robes that are given ...