The Zen Monastic Experience Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buswell, Robert E., Jr., 1953- Author.

Contributor:

Rosaldo, Renato, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Songgwangsa (Sunch'ŏn-si, Korea).

Religion--Buddhism--General.

Religion.

Buddhism--Korea.

Buddhism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Other Title:

Buddhist practice in contemporary Korea

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Princeton University Press, 1993

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annotation Robert Buswell, a Buddhist scholar who spent five years as a Zen monk in Korea, draws on personal experience in this insightful account of day-to-day Zen monastic practice. In discussing the activities of the postulants, the meditation monks, the teachers and administrators, and the support monks of the monastery of Songgwang-sa, Buswell reveals a religious tradition that differs radically from the stereotype prevalent in the West. The author's treatment lucidly relates contemporary Zen practice to the historical development of the tradition and to Korean history more generally, and his portrayal of the life of modern Zen monks in Korea provides an innovative and provocative look at Zen from the inside.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Plates

Preface

Conventions Used

Introduction Zen Monasticism and the Context of Belief

CHAPTER ONE Buddhism in Contemporary Korea

CHAPTER TWO Daily and Annual Schedules

CHAPTER THREE Songgwang-Sa and Master Kusan

CHAPTER FOUR A Monk's Early Career

CHAPTER FIVE The Support Division of the Monastery

CHAPTER SIX Relations with the Laity

CHAPTER SEVEN The Practice of Zen Meditation in Korea

CHAPTER EIGHT Training in the Meditation Hall

CHAPTER NINE The Officers of the Meditation Compound

CONCLUSION Toward a Reappraisal of Zen Religious Experience

Epilogue Songgwang-sa after Kusan

Appendix Principal Chants Used in Korean Monasteries

Glossary of Sinitic Logographs

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-259) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691216102

069121610X

9780691074078

0691074070

OCLC:

1227050259