In August, 2010, the annual Buddhist prayers for animals and the souls of dead animals was performed by Jeong Kwang, a Buddhist famous for performing this ceremony each year at Jeong To Temple.

These ceremonies have become so popular that Jeong To Temple will begun holding them every fourth Sunday at 1 pm.

First Buddhists and members of Korean animal rights groups performed a public ceremony. Part of this was to call attention to injustices against animals and remember their tragic losses.

The picture above shows a man marching with a large framed picture. That picture is of the incident described here. It was one of the most barbaric incidents to occur in public in recent history in Korea. An incident of such savagery and cruelty, it will never be forgotten.

The temple was full, as it was last year.

Also, around the same date across town, a KARA member attended a small ceremony that was also for all animals on land, sea, and air that lived, suffered, and died under human hands or otherwise. Prayers were also for animals still living.

It was held at a small Buddhist temple on the 2nd floor of a building near Bongchun Station, Green Line.

Traditional food offerrings were made. The small group of people who attended the ceremony shared these among themselves after it was over. As with the larger ceremony above, people came not just to pray for animals in general, but to pray for those animals they might have shared their lives with, and whom they still missed and wished spiritual peace.