Korea today is a divided country. It is a land of amazing political contrast. The South is famed for fore its tenacity, rapidly becoming one of the industrialized giants of the world. The North is the last bastion of communism, perhaps showing and equal tenacity in retaining its outmoded ideology. But what do we know of its former history, art and religion? Korean Buddhism is not a subject that has been exposed to the wider world. In modern Korea there is little ...