Currents and Countercurrents : Korean Influences on the East Asian Buddhist Traditions / Robert E. Buswell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhism--Korea--History.

Buddhism.

Buddhism--East Asia--History.

Japan--Civilization--Korean influences.

Japan.

China--Civilization--Korean influences.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 294 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2005]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Soon after the inception of Buddhism in the sixth or fifth century B.C.E., the Buddha ordered his small band of monks to wander forth for the welfare and weal of the many, a command that initiated one of the greatest missionary movements in world religious history. But this account of a monolithic missionary movement spreading outward from the Buddhist homeland of India across the Asian continent is just one part of the story. The case of East Asian Buddhism suggests another tale, one in which the dominant eastward current of diffusion creates important eddies, or countercurrents, of influence that redound back toward the center. These countercurrents have had significant, even profound, impact on neighboring traditions. In East Asia perhaps the most important countercurrent of influence came from Korea, the focus of this volume. Chapters examine the role played by the Paekche kingdom in introducing Buddhist material culture (especially monastic architecture) to Japan and the impact of Korean scholiasts on the creation of several distinctive features that eventually came to characterize Japanese Pure Land Buddhism. The lives and intellectual importance of the monks Sungnang (fl. ca. 490) and Wonch'uk (613-696) are reassessed, bringing to light their role in the development of early intellectual schools within Chinese Buddhism. Later chapters discuss the influential teachings of the semi-legendary master Musang (684-762), the patriarch of two of the earliest schools of Ch'an; the work of a dozen or so Korean monks active in the Chinese T'ient'ai tradition; and the Huiyin monastery.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Buswell, Jr.

CHAPTER 1. Paekche and the Incipiency of Buddhism in Japan / Best, Jonathan W.

CHAPTER 2. Kyŏvnghŭvng in Shinran's Pure Land Thought / Keel, Hee-Sung

CHAPTER 3. Korea as a Source for the Regeneration of Chinese Buddhism / Jorgensen, John

CHAPTER 4. Ch'an Master Musang / Faure, Bernard

CHAPTER 5. Wov nch'uv k's Place in the East Asian Buddhist Tradition / Cho, Eunsu

CHAPTER 6. The Korean Impact on T'ien-t'ai Buddhism in China / Chan, Chi-wah

CHAPTER 7. Ŭich'ŏn's Pilgrimage and the Rising Prominence of the Korean Monastery in Hang-chou during the Sung and Yu an Periods / Huang, Chi-chiang

About the Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824874490

0824874498

OCLC:

1024023982