More than a meal: Temple food feeds students in body and mind

Cheongnyeon Bapsim, run by the Korean Buddhist Foundation for Social Welfare, offers university students free lunches of healthy temple food, meant to nourish the body and mind as much as to ease their meal costs.

The name joins the word for youth with "bapsim," the energy a person draws from a bowl of rice.

Before the 100 students ate at Yeonhwasa on Tuesday, Ven.

Seonjae put the idea to them herself.

"A grain of rice endures a cold spring, a hot summer and the cold winds of autumn before passi ...