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Shanty Diary

Author

Jiyul

Publisher

SAKYEJUL PUBLISHING LTD.

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #environment
  • #farming
  • #nature
  • #ecosystem
  • #rural area
  • #community

Copyright Contact

Kang Hyunjoo

  • Publication Date

    2017-01-16
  • No. of pages

    296
  • ISBN

    9791160940022
  • Dimensions

    150 * 215
Overview

This book is a journal and essay written by a South Korean Buddhist, Jiyul Sunim, who is also known for “Cheonseongsan Protector” and “Salamander Appeal.” The book depicts the life she led in a mountain hut at the foot of Chilbosan Mountain in Yeongdeok County in North Gyeongsang Province as well as the lives lived by the elders of a small secluded village.

Book Intro

Jiyul Sunim has undergone long hunger strikes to fight against the capital and power that destroy many lives. When she ended these strikes, she couldn't even properly walk. But upon entering into a certain village, she observed and documented the daily lives of the old people who plant, cultivate, and harvest crops, and this brought her from death's door back to life. Shanty Diary is the record of this period, which portrays an agricultural life in a rural area from the early spring to the end of the year.

Jiyul Sunim staged hunger strikes five times to protect Cheonseongsan Mountain. In 2006, she ended these strikes and settled down in a village at the foot of Chilbosan Mountain. It was a small farming village where only ten households had been living their lives for decades. At first, she was a stranger and reluctant to be in a close relationship with the locals there. However, the villagers later put some food at the door of her place, fixed her shabby house, and helped her manage a vegetable garden. As time passed, she became an honorary villager under the care of her neighbors.

In this secluded village deep in the mountain to which buses come only once in five days, the older people worked on the farm every day. Whether it was spring or summer, farming always kept them busy. It was there that Jiyul Sunim was able to get back to her life after being physically and mentally exhausted and left knocking on death's door. Just as plants make buds in the spring, bear fruits in the fall, and then see their lives end, Jiyul Sunim was able to be pulled back out of the tunnel of death and manage her own life again.

The readers of Shanty Diary will be able to look into the farming life in the village where the villagers were born or settled after marriage. Jiyul Sunim examined the changes in nature there and wrote a farming journal both as a visitor and a villager. She appreciated seeing her neighbors perform their ritusal before the beginning of the year-long farming, making sauce and ingredients together on auspicious days, making fertilizers with feces and urine, and plowing the fields with cows in a traditional manner. She wrote every episode in detail in her diary.

About the Author

Jiyul



Jiyul became a Buddhist Monk in 1997 and started practicing the religious life in 1998. Upon visiting Naewon Temple in 2000 to study, Jiyul was shocked to see a digger making roads by digging through a mountain, and she thus decided to protect Cheonseong Mountain. Despite her efforts of fasting for as many as 242 days from May of 2003, The tunnel was ultimately opened in Cheonseong Mountain. After that, Jiyul lived a non-possessive life in the backwoods of Yeongdeok, where even transportation barely reached. In 2009, Jiyul witnessed a four-river project demolishing many more lives in Nakdong River than what she saw in Cheonseong Mountain in 2003. Jiyul has been protecting nature and conveying the suffering of living beings to the world ever since.

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