Gary Gach is an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Francisco. He is author of The Idiot’s Guide to Buddhism as well as Pause, Breathe, Smile – Awakening Mindfulness When Meditation is Not Enough. He is editor of What Book!? Buddha Poems From Beat to Hiphop. He recently served as cotranslator for Hafiz’s Little Book of Life. He is cotranslator of three Korean books of poetry by Ko Un: Flowers of a Moment, Ten Thousand Lives, and Songs for Tomorrow.

Here he describes his passion for the poetry of Ko Un and other Buddhist poets. He reviews Ko Un’s history in the context of Korean history. And, he describes the recent controversy involving accusations of sexual impropriety against Ko Un.

00:00 Introduction

02:15 A resonance with the poetry of Ko Un

04:28 The ups and downs of Korean history

15:19 Cultural ties between the two Koreas

18:32 The sexual scandal

28:24 Gary Gach’s personal relationship with Ko Un

30:16 Reading some of Ko Un’s poems

44:14 Reflections

46:30 Conclusion

Edited subtitles for this video are available in Russian, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, Swedish, and Spanish.

NOTE: For details regarding the sexual scandal surrounding Ko Un, see https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/culture/2024/08/135_244951.html

(Recorded on August 13, 2024)

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Published on September 13, 2024