Monastic Education In Korea
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Monastic Education in Korea
Author | : Uri Kaplan |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2020-06-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780824883577 |
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What do Buddhist monks learn about Buddhism? Which part of their enormous canonical and non-canonical literature do they choose to focus on as the required curriculum in their training, and what do they elect to leave out? The cultural depository of Buddhism includes some four thousand canonical texts, hundreds of other historical works, modern textbooks, oral traditions, and more recently, an increasingly growing body of online material. The sheer diversity of this mass of information makes the pedagogical choices of monastics worthy of close study. Monastic Education in Korea is essentially a biography of the Korean Buddhist monastic curriculum over the past five centuries. Based on extensive ethnographic work and archival research in Korean monasteries, it illustrates how a particular premodern syllabus was reimagined in the twentieth century to become the sole national Korean monastic pedagogical program—only to be criticized and completely restructured in recent years. Through a detailed analysis of these modifications, the work demonstrates how Korean Buddhist reformers today tend to imitate the educational practices and canonize the textual totems of the contemporary international discipline of Buddhist studies, and how, by doing so, they ultimately transform the local Korean tradition from a particular brand of Chinese-centered scholastic Chan into the inclusive, pluralistic, Indian-focused Buddhism common in English-language introductions to the religion. The book further examines the proliferation of diverse graduate schools for the sangha, as well as the creation of a novel examination system for all monastics. It reveals some of the realities of operating large monastic organizations in contemporary Asia and portrays a living, vibrant Buddhist community that is constantly negotiating with modern values and reformulating its core orthodoxies.
Monastic Education in Late Antiquity
Author | : Lillian I. Larsen,Samuel Rubenson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2018-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107194953 |
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Redefines the role assigned education in the history of monasticism, by re-situating monasticism in the history of education.
New Perspectives in Modern Korean Buddhism
Author | : Hwansoo Ilmee Kim,Jin Y. Park |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2022-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781438491332 |
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New Perspectives in Modern Korean Buddhism moves beyond nationalistic, modernist, and ethnocentric historiographies of modern Korean Buddhism by carefully examining individuals' lived experiences, the institutional dimensions of Korean Buddhism, and its place in transnational conversations. Drawing upon rich archives as well as historical, anthropological, and literary approaches, the book examines four themes that have gained attention in recent years: perennial existential concerns and the persistent relevance of religious practice; the role of female Buddhists; clerical marriage and scandals; and engagement with secular society. The book reveals the limits of metanarratives, such as those of colonialism, nationalism, and modernity, in understanding the complex and contested identities of both monastics and laity, thus demanding that we diversify the methods by which we articulate the history of modern Korean Buddhism.
Assimilation of Buddhism in Korea
Author | : Lewis R. Lancaster,Chai-Shin Yu |
Publsiher | : Jain Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : 9780895818898 |
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During the unified Silla dynasty period (669-935AD) that followed the Three Kingdom period, Buddhism was being assimilated into the Korean culture and taking on certain aspects not borrowed from China. Buddhist specialists will be interested in the ways in which the various schools were being adapted in this time period.
Lives of Eminent Korean Monks
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Author | : Peter H. Lee |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0674181476 |
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Doctrine and Practice in Medieval Korean Buddhism
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2016-11-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780824867430 |
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Ŭich’ŏn (1055-1101) is recognized as a Buddhist master of great stature in the East Asian tradition. Born a prince in the medieval Korean state of Koryŏ (960-1279), he traveled to Song China (960-1279) to study Buddhism and later compiled and published the first collection of East Asian exegetical texts. According to the received scholarly tradition, after returning to Korea, Ŭich’ŏn left the Hwaŏm (Huayan) school to found a new Ch’ŏnt’ae (Tiantai) school when he realized that the synthesis between doctrinal learning and meditative practice in the latter would help bring together the discordant sects of Koryŏ Buddhism. In the late twentieth century, however, scholars began to question the assertion that Ŭich’ŏn forsook one school for another, arguing that his writings assembled in The Collected Works of State Preceptor Taegak (Taegak kuksa munjip) do not portray a committed sectarian but a monk dedicated to developing a sophisticated and rigorous system of monastic education that encompassed all Buddhist intellectual traditions. In this first comprehensive study of Ŭich’ŏn’s life and work in English, Richard McBride presents translations of select lectures, letters, essays, and poetry from The Collected Works to provide a more balanced view of Ŭich’ŏn’s philosophy of life and understanding of key Buddhist teachings. The translations center on the monk’s activities in the pan-East Asian Buddhist world and his compilation of scholarly texts, writings related to his interactions with royalty, and correspondence with his Chinese mentor, Jinshui Jingyuan (1011-1088). By incorporating Ŭich’ŏn’s work associated with doctrinal Buddhism and his poetry, McBride clearly shows that even in his most personal work Ŭich’ŏn did not abandon Hwaŏm teachings for those of the Ch’ŏnt’ae but rather he encouraged monks to blend the best learning from all doctrinal traditions with meditative practice.
Buddhist and Benedictine Monastic Education
Author | : W. L. A. Don Peter |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : UOM:39015029987966 |
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The Zen Monastic Experience
Author | : Robert E. Buswell Jr. |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2020-07-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780691216102 |
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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.