“Body and soul, let's all go / transformed into arrows! / Piercing the air / body and soul, let's go / with no turning back.” One of Korea's greatest living writers, who is this Buddhist monk and author of Ten Thousand Lives?
Answer Ko Un
The activist monk, Ko Un, is considered one of South Korea's greatest living writers. Having experienced the Korean War in all its ugliness, he entered a Buddhist monastery, where he published his first book of poetry. Afterwards, he helped drive the democracy movement and was imprisoned for years, where he wrote many other books of poetry. Amongst his works are Ten Thousand Lives and The Sound of My Waves.
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