About Beopgonori
Beopgonori (Korean: 법고놀이) is a type of traditional Korean performance. In the performance, a drummer plays the beopgo (법고; 法鼓; lit. 'Dharma drum'), a small drum, while dancing. The name beopgo originally refers to one of the four Buddhist instruments. In the late Joseon period, Buddhist monks often went about asking for alms with a dharma drum set up on the roadside or formed a nongak (farmers' music) band and begged for rice. These monks were called beopgo monks (drumming monks) or gutjungpae, meaning a group of monks who played percussion music to raise money.
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