Korean Buddhism : Selected Readings from Primary Texts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Park, Jin Y.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (546 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2026.

Summary:

This book presents the first comprehensive introduction to Korean Buddhism through twenty-five key primary texts spanning the seventh to twenty-first centuries.All have been expertly translated by leading scholars in the field.The volume introduction provides an overview of major themes that illuminates the diverse sources that follow.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Exploring Korean Buddhism through Texts and Contexts - Jin Y. Park

I. Premodern Period

1. Non- dual Understanding of Reality: Commentary and Separate Record on the Awakening of Faith by Wŏnhyo (617-686) - Sumi Lee

2. Investigating the Types of Mental Disturbances and the Means to Correct Them: System of the Two Hindrances by Wŏnhyo (617-686) - A. Charles Muller

3. A Graphic Synopsis of Hwaŏm Soteriology: Diagram of the Dharma Realm of the One Vehicle of Hwaŏm by Ŭisang (625-702) - Seunghak Koh

4. Commentary on the Diagram of the Dharma Realm of the One Vehicle: Wŏnt'ong's Record on the Diagram of the Dharma Realm of the One Vehicle by Kyunyŏ (923-973) - Richard D. McBride

5. Advice to Buddhist Neophytes: Arouse Your Mind and Practice by Wŏnhyo (617-686) - Eunsu Cho

6. Monastic Rules in Medieval Korea: Admonitions to Beginning Students by Chinul (1158-1210) - Sung-Eun Thomas Kim

7. Like the Moon through the Clouds: Memoirs of a Pilgrimage to the Five Indian Kingdoms by Hyech'o (704-787) - Matty Wegehaupt

8. Ŭich'ŏn's Journey to China and Communications with Jinshui Jingyuan: Collected Works of State Preceptor Taegak by Ŭich'ŏn (1055-1101) - Richard D. McBride II

9. A Sudden, Then Gradual, Approach to Buddhist Practice: Secrets on Cultivating the Mind by Chinul (1158-1210) - Robert E. Buswell Jr.

10. Koryŏ Buddhist Nuns and the Practice of the Kanhwa Meditation of Non-duality: Recorded Sayings of National Teacher Chin'gak of Jogye by Hyesim (1178-1234) - John Jorgensen

11. The Localization of Buddhism in Korea: Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms by Iryŏn (1206-1289) - Sem Vermeersch

12. A Koryŏ-Chosŏn Buddhist-Confucian Debate: Articulation of Orthodoxy by Kihwa (1376-1433) - A. Charles Muller

II. Modern Period.

13. Bringing the Korean Sŏn of the Past into the Modern Age: Collected Writings of Kyŏnghŏ by Kyŏnghŏ (1849-1912) - Henrik H. Sørensen

14. Envisioning Buddhism in a Changing World: The Sun over the Sea of Enlightenment by Paek Yongsŏng (1864-1940) - Gregory N. Evon

15. Reformation of Korean Buddhism: Treatise on the Restoration of Korean Buddhism by Han Yongun (1879-1944) - Pori Park

16. Young Buddhists' Criticisms of Colonial Regulations and Demands for Buddhist Independence: "On the Separation of Religion and Politics" by Kim Pomnin (1899-1964) and "Overview of Korean Buddhism for the Last Hundred Years" by Kang Yumun (1898-1941) - Jeongeun Park

17. Clerical Marriage in Modern Korean Buddhism: "Alas, the Last Days of Korean Buddhism!" by Yŏngho (fl. 1926) - Hwansoo Kim

18. Reviving Wŏnhyo and Revamping Korean Buddhism: "Wŏnhyo: The Founder of Syncretic Buddhism" by Ch'oe Namsŏn (1890-1957) - Sujung Kim

19. Buddhism as Philosophy: "Buddhist Metaphysics" by Paek Sŏnguk (1897-1981) - Halla Kim

20. Japanese Buddhism Seen through a Korean Buddhist Nun's Eyes: "Observations from a Tour of Japanese Buddhism" by Chŏng Suok (1902-1966) - Eunsu Cho

21. Gender, Women's Liberation, and Buddhism in Modern Korea: Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun by Kim Iryŏp (1896- 1971) - Jin Y. Park

22. The Sudden and Gradual Debate and the Formation of Modern Sŏn Buddhism: The Orthodox Path of the Sŏn School by Sŏngch'ŏl (1912- 1993) - Juhn Y. Ahn

23. A Buddhist Movement Wishing for Revolution: "The Philosophy and Doctrinal Background of Minjung Buddhism" by Pŏpsŏng ( 1952-) - Lucy Hyekyung Jee

24. Landscape and Our Place in It: No River to Cross by Daehaeng (1927-2012) - Chong Go

25. Son Buddhism and Heidegger's Ontology: The World of Sŏn by Ko Hyŏnggon (1906-2004) - Seong Uk Kim and Jongwook Kim

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Park, Jin Y. Korean Buddhism

ISBN:

9798880703081

OCLC:

1581929807