Introduction One of the more difficult Buddhist murals to find at a Korean temple is the Gamno-do, or “Sweet Dew Mural” in English. In fact, I’ve only ever seen this mural at a handful of temples and hermitages in all of my travels. So what is a Gamno-do? What does it look like? And what is it supposed to mean? It should be noted, before we go any further, that a lot of the wonderful information and research in this post comes from academic article entitled “A Fantasy in Korean Buddhist Painting: Hungry Ghosts in Nectar Ritual Paintings” by Kim Seunghee. The Buddhist Afterlife Before we can better understand the…