| Jiyul | |
| Hangul | 지율 |
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| Hanja | 知律 |
| Revised Romanization | Jiyul |
| McCune–Reischauer | Chiyul |
| Birth name | |
| Hangul | 조경숙 |
| Revised Romanization | Jo Gyeongsuk |
| McCune–Reischauer | Cho Kyŏngsuk |
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Jiyul (born 1957) is a South Korean Buddhist nun belonging to the Jogye Order, the largest in Korean Buddhism. She garnered national and international attention for her environmental activism, which has included dramatic and controversial methods such as a series of fasts-to-the-death. She is also attributed with likely being the founder of South Korea's national ecological movement due to the attention and largest amount of environmental controversy surrounding her Green Resonance movement, the biggest seen in South Korea.[1]
- ^ Cho, Eun-su (2013-07-09). "From Ascetic to Activist: Jiyul Sunim's Korean buddhist eco-movement". In Meinert, Carmen (ed.). Nature, Environment and Culture in East Asia: The Challenge of Climate Change. Vol. 1. ISBN 9789004253049.