“I turn to the Buddha Dharma [Law of Buddha] with all my heart.”
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1. 지극한 마음으로 부처님께 귀의합니다 .
“I turn to the Buddha with all my heart.”
2. 지극한 마음으로 부처님 법에 귀의합니다.
I would read the second affirmation as: “I turn to the Buddha Dharma [Law of Buddha] with all my heart.”
I don’t like using the words dharma and law as if they were equivalent, although in this case the Korean word 법 [beop] also translates as law. But I think in the Buddhist religious tradition, the concept of dharma apparently could just as easily be understood as “teaching” or “knowledge.” The word dharma is Sanskrit, but the word is widely used as a naturalized word in English – in the closely related Pali Language, it is dhamma. Pali was the language of the first Buddhist writings.
